FOUNDATION FOR A CYBERNETIC MODEL OF PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Abstract

The mind‐brain duality has engendered fundamental problems integral to both neurocybernetics and psychobiology. Although Greek thought did not, in general, separate mind from nature, by the time of Descartes in Western civilization, a division had been made between mind (or soul) and brain. Descartes formalized this concept in the construction of the reflex which is basic to almost all disciplines relating to the nervous system. Thus, the dualities of mind‐brain, stimulus‐response and environment‐organism entered into the scientific constructs of our time. An attempt is developed here to demonstrate analytical and experimental approaches for a new concept of the nervous system in which the existence of these dualities is no longer necessary.

Citation

ZABARA, J. (1972), "FOUNDATION FOR A CYBERNETIC MODEL OF PSYCHOBIOLOGY", Kybernetes, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 165-168. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005306