Background
Sayre, Kenneth Malcolm was born on August 13, 1928 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, United States. Son of Harry Malcolm and Mildred Florence (Potts) Sayre.
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Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Mind) (Volume 2)
( This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely orig...)
This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely original approach to the subject of the mind-body problem, examining it in terms of the conceptual links between the physical sciences and the sciences of human behaviour. It is based on the cybernetic concepts of information and feedback and on the related concepts of thermodynamic and communication-theoretic entropy. The foundation of the approach is the theme of continuity between evolution, learning and human consciousness. The author defines life as a process of energy exchange between organism and environment, and evolution as a feedback process maintaining equilibrium between environment and reproductive group. He demonstrates that closely related feedback processes on the levels of the behaving organism and of the organism’s nervous system constitute the phenomena of learning and consciousness respectively. He analyses language as an expedient for extending human information-processing and control capacities beyond those provided by one’s own nervous system, and shows reason to be a mode of processing information in the form of concepts removed from immediate stimulus control. The last chapter touches on colour vision, pleasure and pain, intentionality, self-awareness and other subjective phenomena. Of special interest to the communication theorist and philosopher, this study is also of interest to psychologists and anyone interested in the connection between the physical and life sciences.
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Cybernetics and the philosophy of mind (International library of philosophy and scientific method)
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Moonflight: A conversation on determinism
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Book by Sayre, Kenneth M
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- Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (International Library of Philosophy) (This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely origin...)
- Belief and Knowledge: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape (Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory) by Kenneth M. Sayre (1997-11-01)
Kenneth Malcolm Sayre
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AB, Grinnell College, Iowa, 1952. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1958.
Career
Assistant dean Graduate School Arts and Letters, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953-1956; systems analyst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1956-1958; from instructor to professor philosophy, U. Notre Dame, Indiana, since 1958; director Philosophic Institute, U. Notre Dame, Indiana, since 1966.
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Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (International Library of Philosophy)
( This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely orig...)
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Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Mind) (Volume 2)
( This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely orig...)
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Moonflight: A conversation on determinism
(Book by Sayre, Kenneth M)
- Cybernetics and the philosophy of mind (International library of philosophy and scientific method)
- Belief and Knowledge: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape (Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory) by Kenneth M. Sayre (1997-11-01)
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Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (International Library of Philosophy)
Membership
Served with United States Navy, 1946-1948. Member American Philosophical Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Lucille Margaret Shea, August 19, 1958 (deceased April 1980). Children: Gregory, Christopher, Jeffrey. Married Patricia Ann White, April 4, 1983.
1 child, Michael.
