Care of the Machine Self: physiology, cybernetics, humanistic systems in ergonomics

Author/s: Mark Martinez, PhD
Availability: Open Access
Type: Dissertation
Year: 2020
Category: Philosophy

Abstract: This dissertation discusses the ways that scientific thought and philosophy have theorized human life and machines in western thought.


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