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The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name - Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics (Paperback)
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The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name - Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics (Paperback)
Series: Meaning Systems
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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 elan 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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