Kenneth Craik

British psychologist (1914–1945)

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Lived 1914–1945, aged 31
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    Aged 31
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Updated 2026-07-22

Kenneth James William Craik was a Scottish philosopher and psychologist. A pioneer of cybernetics, he hypothesized that any human behaves basically as a servomechanism that executes control at discrete points in time. He influenced Warren McCulloch, who once recounted that Einstein considered The Nature of Explanation a great book.

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