Heinz Von Foerster

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The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order CyberneticsPaperback, 2 December 2013

The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics
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Meaning Systems
Part of Series
Meaning Systems (Fup)
Print Length
236 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Date Published
2 Dec 2013
ISBN-10
0823255611
ISBN-13
9780823255610

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Heinz Von Foerster
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
2 December 2013
Dimensions:
22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0823255611
ISBN-13:
9780823255610
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
236
Weight:
317.51 gm

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