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The first extract is taken from Purpose and automatic control, Computing and Control Engineering Journal, March 1992, pp. 88–89, which was addressed particularly to control engineers.
Introductory and explanatory remarks added by Satinder Gill are in italics. This chapter has been compiled, with Howard Rosenbrock’s permission, from a number of his published works, as follows: H. H. Rosenbrock, ‘Purpose and automatic control’, Computing and Control Engineering Journal. March 1992, pp. 88–89, IEE (reproduced by permission of The Institution of Electrical Engineers); H. H. Rosenbrock, Machines with a purpose, Oxford University Press, 1990 (reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press); Howard Rosenbrock, ‘Technology and its environment’, AI & Society Journal, vol. 7, number 2, 1993, pp. 117–126, Springer-Verlag London Limited.
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Gill, S.P. (1996). Rosenbrock’s Account of Causality and Purpose. In: Gill, K.S. (eds) Human Machine Symbiosis. Human-centred Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3247-9_3
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