How real is reality? Are our images of the world mere inventions, or does an external reality correspond to them? Is it possible to know the truth?
These are questions that physicist and philosopher Heinz von Foerster and journalist Bernhard Poerksen debate about in their conversations. Together, they explore the borders of our capacity for knowledge. They discuss the seeming objectivity of our sensual perception, the consequences of "truth terrorism" and the connections between knowledge and ethics, sight and insight.
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If there were no such thing as a lie, everything that we say would be true. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nontrivial machines, early cyberneticians, circular causality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Norbert Wiener, Heinz von Foerster, Biological Computer Laboratory, Gordon Pask, Konrad Lorenz, Humberto Maturana, Friedrich von Hayek, Gregory Bateson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Margaret Mead, Ross Ashby, Artificial Intelligence, Claude Shannon, Cybernetic Circle, Rattlesnake Hill, University of Illinois, Bernhard Poerksen, First World War, George Spencer-Brown, Johannes Muller, New Age, Stafford Beer New!
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If there were no such thing as a lie, everything that we say would be true. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nontrivial machines, early cyberneticians, circular causality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Norbert Wiener, Heinz von Foerster, Biological Computer Laboratory, Gordon Pask, Konrad Lorenz, Humberto Maturana, Friedrich von Hayek, Gregory Bateson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Margaret Mead, Ross Ashby, Artificial Intelligence, Claude Shannon, Cybernetic Circle, Rattlesnake Hill, University of Illinois, Bernhard Poerksen, First World War, George Spencer-Brown, Johannes Muller, New Age, Stafford Beer New!
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- The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory by Kenneth C. Bausch in Back Matter
- Man Who Mistook His Wife by Oliver Sacks on page 80
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks on page 80
- Michael Kohlhaas (German Edition) by Von Kleist Heinrich on page 118
- Laws of Form by Spencer-Brown on page 78
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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 in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Asian Ethical Urbanism: A Radical Postmodern Perspective by William Siew Wai Lim in Front Matter
- The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivism by Bernhard Poerksen in Back Matter
- Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself: Critical and Systemic Implications for Democracy (C. West Churchman's Legacy and Related Works) by Janet McIntyre-Mills on page 331
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