The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name : Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics /
"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 idea...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Foreword by the Series Editor
- An Author's Forewords
- Forewords with Two Editors
- Fore-]taste of an Author with Two Editors
- Notes on the Translation
- Preface to the American Edition
- First Day: Building Blocks, Observers, Emergence, Trivial Machines
- Second Day: Innovation, Life, Order, Thermodynamics
- Third Day: Movement, Species, Recursion, Selectivity
- Fourth Day: Cognition, Perception, Memory, Symbols
- Fifth Day: Communicating, Talking, Thinking, Falling
- Sixth Day: Experiences, Heuristics, Plans, Futures
- Seventh Day: Rest, Rest, Rest, Rest
- Epilogue in Heaven.