“The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.” – Norbert Wiener Cats hold a strange role in the history of cybernetics. Most iconically, Norbert Wiener, Julian Bigelow, and Arturo Rosenblueth used the example of a cat chasing a mouse to exemplify their account of adaptive behavior and purpose-ness. Stafford Beer also used cats in his drawings … →