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The machines

THE GOVERNOR

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  Drawing of a centrifugal "fly-ball" governor. The balls swing out as speed increases, which closes the valve, until a balance is achieved between demand and the proportional gain of the linkage and valve

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  Cut-away drawing of steam engine speed governor. The valve starts fully open at zero speed, but as the balls rotate and rise, the central valve stem is forced downward and closes the valve. The drive shaft whose speed is being sensed is top right

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  Porter governor on a Corliss steam engine

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  Boulton & Watt engine of 1788

M. SPECULARIX (The Cybernetic Tortoise)

Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLULRlmXkKo

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  W. Grey Walter's cybernetic tortoise. Image from Science and Society Picture Library/Getty images

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  The circuit diagram of CORA (M. Docilis) from Scientific American, Aug 1951. Image from Cybernetic Zoo

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  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/

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  Another view of the Eichler Tortoise. Image from Cybernetic Zoo

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  Circuit diagram for the Eichler Tortoise. Image from Cybernetic Zoo

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  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)

Links

Browser-based game developed at MIT media lab, a demonstration of Shannon's Mind-reading (?) Machine

THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIAL (The Anthropometre)

Links

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

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  Image from https://www.sevensimplesteps.net/struct-diff.php

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  Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

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  Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

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  Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

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  Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

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  Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

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  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

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  Page 1 of Korzybski's patent application for the Structural Differential

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  Page 2 of Korzybski's patent application for the Structural Differential

THE HOMEOSTAT

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  Homeostat

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  Homeostat

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  Homeostat Quadruple Coil

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  Cover for Design For The Brain (1951)