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God & Golem, Inc.
In the 1964 book God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain rigidity of ideological thinking, and a critique of economy
Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion Norbert
Religion, as a science.
Wiener lays down his ideas on machine learning, ma- In the conclusion, he brings the burden of ethics to
chine reproduction and the place of machines in society, politics, away from religion.
on a background of religious references. The provocative
title sums up the confrontation of technical, mathemati-
cal and imaginative boldness with cultural prejudice.
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He mentions other concerns of his, like sensory feed- • God & Golem, Inc. ← The book in PDF, and its
back in artificial limbs, the problems of human responsi- translation into Spanish.
bility in relation with technology, the limits of machine
game-playing, Darwinism, Marxism, the Cold War, the
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