Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener, and Julian Bigelow publish their manifesto defining purposeful behavior as action directed by feedback loops. They strip mysticism from teleology, making it a measurable engineering metric.
Part of the 26 Structural Foundations: How We Teach Machines to Understand Purpose and Human Intent archive. HistoricallyVerified
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