p. 60 on cognitive science

"Functionalism emerges, explicitly and in public, along with a new academic discipline called cognitive science, a discipline connected much more directly to computerization than is widely understood. Put most clearly: in the 1950s both the military and U.S. industry explicitly advocated a messianic understanding of computing, in which computation was the underlying matter of everything in the social world, and could therefore be brought under state-capitalist-military control-centralized, hierarchical control. The intellectuals who saw the promise of computational views did not understand that they were tapping into a vibrant cultural current, an ideological pathway that had at its end something we have never seen: computers that really could speak, write, and think like human beings, and therefore would provide governmental-commercial-military access to these operations for surveillance and control."