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Norbert Wiener est un mathématicien américain, théoricien et chercheur en mathématiques appliquées, surtout connu comme le père fondateur de la cybernétique.

Il fut un pionnier dans l'étude de la stochastique et du bruit, contribuant ainsi par ses travaux à l'électrotechnique, les télécommunications et les systèmes de contrôle. En fondant la cybernétique, Wiener introduit en science la notion de feedback , notion qui a des implications dans les domaines de l'ingénierie, des contrôles de système, l'informatique, la biologie, la psychologie, la philosophie et l'organisation de la société.

Il exposa ses théories sur la cybernétique dans son livre Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, parution qui bouscula durablement jusqu'au scandale, le monde des idées, traversant la pensée scientifique et philosophique de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle, dont il est à ce titre, un des grands penseurs. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. novembre 1894 – 18. mars 1964   •   Autres noms نوربرت وینر
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“A group may have more group information or less group information than its members. A group of non-social animals, temporarily assembled, contains very little group information, even though its members may possess much information as individuals. This is because very little that one member does is noticed by the others and is acted on by them in a way that goes further in the group. On the other hand, the human organism contains vastly more information, in all probability, than does any one of its cells. There is thus no necessary relation in either direction between the amount of racial or tribal or community information and the amount of information available to the individual.”

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Norbert Wiener livre Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

VIII. Information, Language, and Society. p. 158.
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)

“What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.”

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Source: [Wiener, N., A New Theory of Measurement: A Study in the Logic of Mathematics, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, s2-19, 1, 1921, 181–205, 0024-6115, 10.1112/plms/s2-19.1.181]

“As to sociology and anthropology, it is manifest that the importance of information and communication as mechanisms of organization proceeds beyond the individual into the community. On the other hand, it is completely impossible to understand social communities such as those of ants without a thorough investigation of their means of communication, and we were fortunate enough to have the aid of Dr. Schneirla in this matter. For the similar problems of human organization, we sought help from the anthropologists Drs. Bateson and Margaret Mead; while Dr. Morgenstern of the Institute for Advanced Study was our adviser in the significant field of social organization belong to economic theory. His very important joint book on games with Dr. von Neumann, by the way, represents a most interesting study of social organization from the point of view of methods closely related to, although distinct from, the subject matter of cybernetics. Dr. Lewin and others represented the newer work on the theory of opinion sampling and the practice of opinion making, and Dr. F. C. S. Northrup was interested in assaying the philosophical significance of our work.”

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Norbert Wiener livre Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Introduction. p. 18-19
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)

“That country will have the greatest security whose informational and scientific situation is adequate to meet the demands that may be put on it—the country in which it is fully realized that information is important as a stage in the continuous process by which we observe the outer world, and act effectively upon it. In other words, no amount of scientific research, carefully recorded in books and papers, and then put into our libraries with labels of secrecy, will be adequate to protect us for any length of time in a world where the effective level of information is perpetually advancing.”

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Norbert Wiener livre The Human Use of Human Beings

VII. Communication, Secrecy, and Social Policy. p. 121-122
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)

“Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.”

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Norbert Wiener livre The Human Use of Human Beings

Source: The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), p. 162

“onlyinclude>|Information is information|”

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Norbert Wiener livre Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

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

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