The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name
Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics
Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of von Foerster's cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them. It distills concepts scattered across the lifework of this scientific polymath and influential interdisciplinarian. At the same time, as a book-length interview, it does justice to von Foerster's élan as a speaker and improviser, his skill as a raconteur.Developed from a week-long conversation between the editors an…
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Weitere Autoren: Muller, Albert (Hrsg.) / Muller, Karl H. (Hrsg.) / Rooks, Elinor (Übers.) / Kasenbacher, Michael (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8232-5560-3
- EAN: 9780823255603
- Produktnummer: 14749489
- Verlag: Fordham University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Masse: H15.9 cm x B23.4 cm x D2.3 cm 432 g
- Gewicht: 432
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Heinz von Foerster is one of the most consequential thinkers in the history of cybernetics. Von Foerster wrote nearly two hundred professional papers, gaining renown in fields from computer science and artificial intelligence to epistemology and family therapy.
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