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Cognitive scientists and corporations alike see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will change how we think

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guesses about the future, assembled from ever-deeper forays into our lives and minds, and sold on to someone who wants to manipulate that future.
Thomas Hobbes, in his book Leviathan (1651), likened human bodies to ‘automata’, ‘[e]ngines that move themselves by springs and wheeles as doth a watch’.
It was the brainchild of Norbert Wiener, an MIT mathematician and scientist.
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