"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.

"Important cybernetic principles seem to have been forgotten, though, only to be periodically rediscovered or reinvented in different domains" — true for some current developments in the cognitive sciences.