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Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project

The Promise and Threat of Modern Cybernetics

Authors: Kevin Warwick, PhD

Abstract

Cybernetics has historically been defined as “Communication and control in human and machine.” In modern terms, this clearly encompasses the increasingly important area of research in which human and technology are merged into an overall system. It is worth emphasizing that from a cybernetics viewpoint, it is the functioning of the overall system that is of prime importance. In this paper, some of the realistic opportunities and dangers of this concept are considered.

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