In the wake of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics, there has grown up an interdisciplinary field of bionics whose avowed purpose is to understand and physically simulate certain functions of biological systems. Psychology would do well to consider present and future interaction with other disciplines and with interdisciplines through bionics, in view of the apparent overlap of interests.
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