19 Gordon Pask Cybernetics Georgetown 1982 tape10 sideB
Channel: Dave Douglass
Date: 2019-10-02

Gordon Pask CYBERNETICS Symposium Series, 1982, Georgetown U, Wash. DC

19 Gordon Pask Cybernetics Georgetown 1982 tape10 sideB
  Part 19 of 23. October-November 1982

Original audio file "pask-pangaro etc tape10 sideB.m4a"

Begins "Yes, it's time. You request … simultaneously... It's working. It's what I Losing that last tape, it would be a shame to mangle another! I don't know whether it matters much. We have a big problem that matters to our final conversation. Jeff is asking...'

Ends "So (I will use an analogy) it is very much more like ( and it's a good analogy, I believe) it is more like the pictures drawn by biochemists, where enzymes are things that act upon material substrates to produce a product. And the product, to get back to the enzyme, and furthermore some of the products of the whole system are things like Con(Z)-plus or Con(Z)-minus or whatever, which actually operate upon enzymes to reproduce them. Now, I mean that literally. In other words – I don't know whether you watch..."