In these ground-breaking essays, Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. The author was one of the founders of the science of cybernetics.
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I AM somewhat hesitant to make the introductory remarks of my presentation, because I am afraid I may hurt the feelings of those who so generously sponsored this conference on self-organizing systems. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
principle undecidable questions, cognitive tile, recursive function computer, trivial machines, lar causal, nervous nets, stimulus distribution, double closure, operational modalities, motor surface, nth trial, receptor field, closed orientable surface, formal neuron, input fibers, action net, internal frequency, action matrix, synaptic delay, conceptual machinery, synaptic gap Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, University of Illinois, Niklas Luhmann, Spartan Books, Norbert Wiener, Master Abraham, Plenum Press, Multiple View, Pergamon Press, Tomcat Murr, Biological Computer Laboratory, Margaret Mead, Department of Electrical Engineering, Excerpta Medica Foundation, John Wiley, Don Juan, Palo Alto, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Paul Watzlawick, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Collected Works, Great Inquisitor, Gregory Bateson, Biology of Cognition, Francisco Varela New!
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principle undecidable questions, cognitive tile, recursive function computer, trivial machines, lar causal, nervous nets, stimulus distribution, double closure, operational modalities, motor surface, nth trial, receptor field, closed orientable surface, formal neuron, input fibers, action net, internal frequency, action matrix, synaptic delay, conceptual machinery, synaptic gap Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Philosophy in a New Key by Suzanne Langer on 5 pages
- RC Series Bundle: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 4 pages
- Embodiments of Mind by Warren S. McCulloch on page 130, page 322, and page 342
- Biological Prototypes and Synthetic Systems by E. E. Bernard on page 166, and page 341
- Physical Chemistry: 18 by Annual Review on page 286, and page 343
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- Heinz Von Foerster 1911-2002 (Cybernetics & Human Knowing) (Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics Auto Poiesis) by Soeren Brier on 9 pages
- Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie (German Edition) by Dirk Baecker on page 63, page 292, and page 302
- Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development by Gianfranco Minati on page 666, and page 682
- Information Theory and Evolution by John Avery on page 148
- The Interaction of Complexity and Management: by Michael Lissack in Back Matter
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