Understanding Understanding - Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003)

In these essays Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. Included are path- breaking articles concerning the principles of computation in neural nets (1967), the definition of self-organizing systems (1960), the nature of cognition (1970), as well as recent expansions on these themes (e.g. "How recursive is communication," 1993). Working with Norbert Wiener, Warren McCullough, and others in the 1960s and 1970s, von Foerster was one of the founders of the science of cybernetics, which has had profound effects both on modern systems theory and on the philosophy of cognition. At the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois he produced the first parallel computers and contributed to many other developments in the theory of computation and cognition.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2003
Authors:	Heinz Von Foerster
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	362
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-2982-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > Cybernetics & systems theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Thermodynamics & statistical physics > Statistical physics Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Biophysics Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4419-2982-7
Barcode:	9781441929822

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