
061 - The Human Use of Human Beings, Part 2
General Intellect Unit
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The Importance of Emerging Causal Power in History
Cybernetics is the central insight of cybernetics that taps into exactly what marx was trying to functionally get at in his theory of historical materialism. People cannot imagine that something that emerges from something else can have a significant causal power unique causal power even though maybe the first thing is sort of more powerful in a way. The feedback mechanism then actually has more causal power than the original thing so and he's he sort of it's like you know if anyone's ever been in the presence of a guitar amplifier that's like going into feedback it's squealing right?
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