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Kenneth Craik
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<p>Kenneth James William Craik was a Scottish <a href="/facts/Philosopher/Hyvzc54m">philosopher</a> and <a href="/facts/Psychologist/J4l4QdX2">psychologist</a>. A pioneer of <a href="/facts/Cybernetics/4qb58zbt">cybernetics</a>, he hypothesized that a human behaves basically as a <a href="/facts/Servomechanism/lS3l6sY2">servomechanism</a> that controlled at discrete points in time. He influenced Warren McCulloch, who once recounted that <a href="/facts/Albert_Einstein/CNTet8qu">Einstein</a> considered <i>The Nature of Explanation</i> a great book. </p>