This page is for course notes on COGS 100 at UCSD, taught by Eric Morgan in Fall quarter 2023. This is a very interesting course about the development of cognitive science as its own discipline and why cyborgs are relevant. However, because of the huge amount of content and abstract concepts, I easily get confused about stuff and lost in this ocean of cyborgs and brains. Therefore, I'm trying to organize my notes together on this page so that I can be a better cyborg fish. Most of the content on this page might come from lecture slides and notes, I will try my best to cite them but if it's too hard for me to figure out the sources, I don't really know what to do... I will structure the notes according to relevant theories and concepts, and hopefully this will make sense. (2023/11/02)
Cybernetics is the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and in the machine. An important mindset about cybernetics is this idea of "self-governence".
Homeostat is one of the first devices capable of adapting itself to the environment.
Organisms are entities with ":properties of life". There are also attempts on artificial organisms, and three main approaches are hard (hardware, such as robotics), soft (software, such as simulations and computer models), and wet (biochemistry, such as making new proteins).
By definition, a cyborg is a ":cybernetic :organism".