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This volume reports the ninth attempt to infiltrate cybernetics with some of the findings and ideas in contemporary sciences. It is now well known that the purpose of these informal multiprofessional conferences is “to stimulate research and to promote effective communication across the departmental walls which tend to isolate the professions and specialties from one another”. The reports are made verbatim. Attendance at the meeting is limited to twenty-five selected scientists, all of whom are privileged to participate in the discussions.
Some of the leading topics discussed were, the position of humor in human communication, the place of emotions in the feedback concept, homeostasis, central excitation and inhibition, synaptic transmission and feedback phenomena in cellular biology. Since comments and questions were offered by representatives of a wide variety of disciplines such as physics, mathematics, biology, anatomy, physiology, anthropology, psychiatry, psychology, sociology and philosophy, the readers' interest will be maintained at a keen edge throughout, but he will find it difficult to summarize the material. Probably this is as it should be. There is an appendix devoted to a classified list of references.