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.
2013
Q310 .V66 2014eb
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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
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (236 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823255634 doi
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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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Kasenbacher, Michael, contributor.
Müller, Albert, editor.
Müller, Karl H., editor.
Rooks, Elinor, contributor.
Müller, Albert, editor.
Müller, Karl H., editor.
Rooks, Elinor, contributor.
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Table of Contents
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
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