Machines With a Purpose

An outline of the argument Control theory: Incorporating human purpose in machines Hamilton's principle: purpose in natural systems Equivalence: the undetermination of theory Extensions of the argument: relativity, quantum mechanics, and subordinate purposes The purposive myth: how it would seem if we believed it The causal myth: how it is now Scientific management: a case in point An alternative technology Postscript Appendix 1 Technical development Appendix 2 Brief development of the stochastic variational treatment of quantum mechanics Index.