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His family destroyed and his dreams crushed by the corporation that controls his Brazilian home through technology and drugs, Paulo seeks revenge, aided by Zaide, a woman with a computer implant in her brain that provides access to government data. ... Read more

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Fascinating detour from 'classical' cyberpunk
Set in a cyberpunk Brazil, which is described pretty convincingly, the story has that gritty edge that makes a good cyberpunk book.

A great odessy into the future of developing countries
Being a hard core SF fan and having a MA in latin american studies, this book was great.It not only has great technology but it is approached from a latin point of view.If you can get it, do. ... Read more

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Organization Structure: Cybernetic Systems Foundationutilizes a cybernetic systems framework for the study of organizationsusing GST (General Systems Theory) and presents a comprehensive formalview of organizations assessing regulation, coordination andadaptation managements. The use of GST in this book is in sharpcontrast to previous attempts. It addresses structural problemstotally based on qualitative, non-numerical mathematics. The book laysa framework for initial efforts to investigate the potential of usingformal GST to address organizational dilemmas. The text has beentested in several graduate courses. It can serve as an excellenttextbook or reference for graduate level research in this field, aswell as a reference for researchers in related fields. ... Read more

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Refuting Abiogenesis
Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915-1995) in "The Creation of Life: A Cybernetic Approach to Evolution," refutes the notion of abiogenesis utilizing logic and science. He was generally known as A. E. Wilder-Smith and earned his first doctorate in physical organic chemistry at Reading University in 1941 along with his second doctorate and then a third doctorate from the ETH in Switzerland. He went on to become a professor of pharmacology at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He was detested by evolutionary scientists and the secular media.

In this technical but very readable volume Wilder-Smith discusses:

- Consequences of Biochemical Predestination
- Culbertson's work
- Brain function and consciousness
- How to find patterns that reflect intelligent design
- Biological codes require a Code-giver
- And more.

This is a fine book for the astute student or vigorous apologist.

Other works by this triple earned doctorate professor:

- The Scientific Alternative to Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
- The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution
- Man's Origin/Man's Destiny
- He Who Thinks Has To Believe
- The Time Dimension
- And additional books.
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"The Creation of Life: A Cybernetic Approach to Evolution" is not a good introductory volume, but is a lower mid-level scientific apologetic resource.
Letter to an Atheist Nation: Presupositional Apologetics Responds To: Letter to a Christian ... Read more

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Engineering practice often has to deal with complex systems of multiple variable and multiple parameter models almost always with strong non-linear coupling. The conventional analytical techniques-based approaches for describing and predicting the behaviour of such systems in many cases are doomed to failure from the outset, even in the phase of the construction of a more or less appropriate mathematical model. These approaches normally are too categorical in the sense that in the name of “modelling accuracy” they try to describe all the structural details of the real physical system to be modelled. This can significantly increase the intricacy of the model and may result in a enormous computational burden without achieving considerable improvement of the solution. The best paradigm exemplifying this situation may be the classic perturbation theory: the less significant the achievable correction, the more work has to be invested to obtain it.

A further important component of machine intelligence is a kind of “structural uniformity” giving room and possibility to model arbitrary particular details a priori not specified and unknown. This idea is similar to the ready-to-wear industry, which introduced products, which can be slightly modified later on in contrast to tailor-made creations aiming at maximum accuracy from the beginning. These subsequent corrections can be carried out by machines automatically. This “learning ability” is a key element of machine intelligence.

The past decade confirmed that the view of typical components of the present soft computing as fuzzy logic, neural computing, evolutionary computation and probabilistic reasoning are of complementary nature and that the best results can be applied by their combined application.

Today, the two complementary branches of Machine Intelligence, that is, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence serve as the basis of Intelligent Engineering Systems. The huge number of scientific results published in Journal and conference proceedings worldwide substantiates this statement. The present book contains several articles taking different viewpoints in the field of intelligent systems.

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Back cover:
"Hours before Senator Ted Kennedy's car plunged into a Massachusetts pond, killing his attractive woman passenger, a card-reading prophet 3000 miles away sent herself a telegram predicting the danger for Teddy.
"Four times in recent months, future events affecting Senator Kennedy have shown up in the unique deck of cards with which Mrs. Katherine Sabin formulates her forewarnings. Each time, the prediction in the cards has come true." - NATIONAL ENQUIRER

Mrs. Sabin, the author of this remarkable book, has been using Western Union as an official recorder of her predictions for several years. A remarkably successful prophet who uses only an ordinary deck of cards to foretell the future, she now offers everyone, in all walks of life, the first practical key to precognition.

Based on the premise that within our subconscious there exist natural powers of intuition, THE CYBERNETIC ESP BREAKTHROUGH shows how to tap into those powers - and has proven it can work with hundreds of ordinary people! ... Read more

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The Cybernetic ESP Breakthrough
Considering that KCS didn't have any esoteric knowledge, she was certainly very intuitive.Her ideas were extremely advanced, and certainly well worth looking at.I have many years experience in this field, and teach, but she has certainly taught me quite a few things.Nobody else seems to be doing what she did.However, her book is rather a mess, and difficult to sort out.I am personally in the process of rewriting and updating it.It is certainly worth buying, especially as she wanted to spread her ideas to as many people as possible. ... Read more

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There has been speculation, but no definitive answer, as to why many of the world’s fastest middle and long distance runners are from Kenya. Most of the fastest runners in Kenya come from only a few of the 42 tribes, and, amazingly, several sub-tribes account for a sizeable portion of those. "The Kenyans," as they are frequently called, are not homogenous, but have tremendous cultural diversity.

Peak performance requires unique biological, cultural, and psychological factors. Mayes argues that, at this juncture in history, Kenyans have the necessary components required to excel in professional running. In this book, Mayes breaks down each of these components and analyzes them and their interrelationships with other disciplines. He also includes external factors such as Westernization, globalization, and modernization. Mayes’ methodology is unique, as he uses a cybernetic model called an ethnosystem.

With many misunderstandings about how Kenyans see and do things, there still remains a great need for education about Kenyan culture. A number of disciplines remain fertile areas for discussion in relation to Kenyan running. Among those are new science, psychological anthropology, belief and knowledge systems, African philosophy, sociobiology, and social Darwinism. Mayes also addresses hurdles to acquiring the necessary knowledge, including taboos, religious fundamentalism, scientific and institutional dogma, and ethnocentrisms. ... Read more

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Early cybernetic visions
The booklet looks like a couple of vanity press scientific articles until you actually read it.It's instructive to remember, once you do read it, that it was written while Richard Nixon was still in office, when ARPAnet was getting its bottom spanked on its way out of the Military-Industrial womb, and when computer games were little more than an idea.Brand's interviews with cybernetics pioneers and then-20-something compunauts (now pushing retirement) make clear in retrospect that the age that began in the late 60's is still the one we're in now.The cultural puzzles of deepening computer interaction started *there*.This engaging snapshot of personalities in context, mixed with Brand's pre-2001 spin on what computerization could mean to culture, should be required reading.

Fast Forward Retro Vision for the Digital Age
This is one of those books that I've periodically pulled off the shelf again and again over the years. Stewart Brand's journalistic foray into (what was then) pre-Internet, hacker/computer culture shows us theroots/rock/reggae of an earlier generation of programmers and designers whowere busy creating a new world minus the hype, marketing and IPO fever.Re-viewing this book over the years since it was first published alwaysgives fresh insight into where we've been.(Gosh nose where we are going.)Worthy of reprinting and rediscovery in the 21st century. Thank you, Mr.Brand... ... Read more

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In light of the enormous interest in building intelligent systems, this volume blends theory, applications, and methodology of cybernetics taking it out of the realm of the abstract and explaining how cybernetics can contribute to an improved understanding of intelligence. Among the topics of the 17 ... Read more