After going through these readings all I can help, but think is that according to cybernetics (or at least my brief understanding) is that the world is nothing more than a complex network of inputs and outputs and relays all shooting back between one another.  In order to seemingly have more intelligence, one must create more complicated systems where the the outputs constantly feedback into the inputs to create a system that in a sense “learns” from what it is doing and its effects on its surroundings.  This lens of how one might see the world, was strong in  the Weiner reading where he discusses the ideas of input output and feedback.  He also makes the interesting distinction that it matters not whether the feedback from a command is given from a machine or from another human.  The one giving the original command is just looking for confirmation or affirmation that the command was received.  From this, I think that there is a theoretical stance from which to tackle the idea of “artificial intelligence”.  Weiner talks about how outputs affect inputs through feedback systems, and since it matters not who or what is acknowledging commands, than with a complex enough feedback system, artificial intelligence can be born.   There then rises the question of the soul or the human spirit, but one could argue that those ideas are a construction of our own minds.  It could be that we as a species have just developed such a complex feedback system, that anomalies have arisen.  These anomalies could be the result of humans sending output commands or questions for which there are no direct quantitative feedback results.  It is possible, that to compensate, new systems were created allowing for feedback loops to accepts a new qualitative responses, but as new systems of feedback and commands are created, the possibility for more questions arises.