The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name : Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics / Heinz von Foerster; ed. by Karl H. Müller, Albert Müller.
Foerster, Heinz von, author.; Kasenbacher, Michael, contributor.; Müller, Albert, editor.; Müller, Karl H., editor.; Rooks, Elinor, contributor.
2013
Q310 .V66 2014eb
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Title The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name : Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics / Heinz von Foerster; ed. by Karl H. Müller, Albert Müller.
Author Foerster, Heinz von, author.
ISBN 9780823255634
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255634
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (236 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823255634 doi
Call Number Q310 .V66 2014eb
Summary 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 and von Foerster near the end of his life, this work playfully engages von Foerster in developing the difference his notion of second-order cybernetics makes for topics ranging from emergence, life, order, and thermodynamics to observation, recursion, cognition, perception, memory, and communication.The book gives an English-speaking audience a new ease of access to the rich thought and generous spirit of this remarkable and protean thinker.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Added Author Kasenbacher, Michael, contributor.
Müller, Albert, editor.
Müller, Karl H., editor.
Rooks, Elinor, contributor.
Series Meaning Systems
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823255603
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The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name
Contents
A Foreword by the Series Editor
An Author's Forewords
Forewords with Two Editors
Foretaste of an Author with Two Editors
Notes on the Translation
Preface to the American Edition
Abbreviations
First Day.
Second Day.
Third Day.
Fourth Day.
Fifth Day.
Sixth Day.
Seventh Day.
Epilogue in Heaven
Notes
Index

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