Kenneth Craik
Kenneth Craik | |
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| Born | 1914 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 8 May 1945 Cambridge, England |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | The Experimental Study of Visual Adaptation (1940) |
| Academic work | |
| Influenced | Warren McCulloch |
Kenneth James William Craik (/kreɪk/; 1914 – 1945) was a Scottish philosopher and psychologist. A pioneer of cybernetics, he hypothesized that a human behaves basically as a servomechanism that controlled at discrete points in time. He influenced Warren McCulloch, who once recounted that Einstein considered The Nature of Explanation a great book.