Norbert Wiener Quote

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.


V. Computing Machines and the Nervous System. p. 132. - Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)


The mechanical brain does not secrete thought as the liver does bile, as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of...

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought as the liver does bile, as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of...

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought as the liver does bile, as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of...

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought as the liver does bile, as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of...