Contemporary cybernetics began as an interdisciplinary study connecting the fields of control systems, electrical network theory, mechanical engineering, [[logic]] modeling, evolutionary [[biology]], neuroscience, [[anthropology]], and [[psychology]] in the 1940s, often attributed to the Macy Conferences. | Contemporary cybernetics began as an interdisciplinary study connecting the fields of control systems, electrical network theory, mechanical engineering, [[logic]] modeling, evolutionary [[biology]], neuroscience, [[anthropology]], and [[psychology]] in the 1940s, often attributed to the Macy Conferences. |