"But perhaps the most serious danger in such a machine will be its selfishness. Whatever the problem, it will judge the appropriateness of an action by how the feedback affects itself" — allopoiesis + intelligence = autopoiesis?

On the philosophy of W. Ross Ashby, a cybernetician who tried to analyze cognition quantitatively in the 50s and had views remarkably similar to more modern (bayesian) "engines of cognition" ideas.