The purpose of this paper is to explore
some of the ideas presented in Donald
MacKay's Information, Mechanism and Meaning, a collection of selected papers
written by MacKay, most of which were
presented to various scientific confer
ences in the 1950s and 7960s. This paper
also examines MacKay's ideas in relation
to some of the ideas of Lee Thayer and
William Stephenson.
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