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Contents
THE GOVERNOR
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M. SPECULARIX (The Cybernetic Tortoise)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLULRlmXkKo
A news reel in which Grey Walter demonstrates the Cybernetic Tortoise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJfsD3Ksu4
Recent demonstration with excellent description of how the Cybernetic Tortoise works
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W. Grey Walter's cybernetic tortoise. Image from Science and Society Picture Library/Getty images
In this time-lapse photo from 1950, Walter has a smoke while one of his cybernetic tortoises roams about the living room. Image from Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
View of a so-called 'turtle' robot, designed by neurophysiologist and robotician Dr. William Grey Walter, named Elsie as it seeks bright lights with its sensors, April 1950. The sign reads 'Machina Speculatrix (Testudo); Elmer; Elsie (Habitat - W. England); Please Do Not Feed These Machines.' Image from Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Movement of the Cybernetic Tortoise. Image from THE CYBERNETIC BRAIN: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering. University of Chicago Press, 2010. Also available here from this review of the book: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/machines-minds-and-madness
The circuit diagram of CORA (M. Docilis) from Scientific American, Aug 1951. Image from Cybernetic Zoo
A tortoise built to the M. Docilis specification i.e. with the conditioned reflex. The student who built it was Ewald Eichler and it was built as part of his diploma thesis -Ewald Eichler: Ein umuetlabhaengiger Automat (Travail de diplome a l’Universite techniquo de Vienne, 1954). More information available via http://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/1954-vienna-turtle-eichler-zemanek-austrian/
Another view of the Eichler Tortoise. Image from Cybernetic Zoo
Circuit diagram for the Eichler Tortoise. Image from Cybernetic Zoo
Image from a Russian pamphlet of the Cybernetic Tortoise, 1969. Image from Cybernetic Zoo. PDF of pamphlet also available via Cybernetic Zoo.
SEER (SEquence Extrapolating Robot)
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Browser-based game developed at MIT media lab, a demonstration of Shannon's Mind-reading (?) Machine
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Claude Shannon's 1953 Outguessing (Mind-reading) Machine, at the MIT Museum. Image from http://wpoundstone.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-i-beat-mind-reading-machine.html
David Hagelbarger (who built the first outguessing machine), with his device. Image from http://wpoundstone.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-i-beat-mind-reading-machine.html
THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIAL (The Anthropometre)
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Explanation of SD with video footage of Korzybski explaining abstraction
PDF from the ESGS (European Society for General Semantics) on the Structural Differential with lots of photos of SD (see images below)
General Semantics vs Scientology
Patent application filed by Korzybski
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Relief Anthropometer (Structural Differential) suitable for hanging, image from https://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2014/11
Korzybski with 'deluxe, '3-D' model of Anthropometer with the rotary fan, the 'disk' where there is no disk, around 1927. Image from https://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2014/11/chapter-27-measure-of-man-part-3.html
THE ELECTROPSYCOMETER (The E-Meter)
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A VERY comprehensive website on the Scientologist e-Meter (lotsa images)
Images
The e-Meter, as marketed by Scientologists. Image from https://commonsenseatheism.net/tag/e-meter/
An annotated Scientologist's e-Meter. Image from Wikimedia Commons
THE HOMEOSTAT
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Article by Andrew Pickering on Ashby's Homeostat and the brain
Images
The Homeostat. Image from https://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/an-ontology-of-unknowability/
Wiring diagram of the Homestat. Image from https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Homeostat-wiring-diagram-Source-Ashby-1948-p-381-Figure-3-Permission-the-Ashby_fig1_250893458
Homeostat: Ashby Digital Archive: http://www.rossashby.info
Homeostat: Ashby Digital Archive: http://www.rossashby.info
Homeostat Quadruple Coil: Ashby Digital Archive: http://www.rossashby.info
THE PORTAPAK: SONY VIDEOROVER DV-2400 (1967)
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Many, many photos of the Sony AV-3400 (and other models)
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