The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name : Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics /

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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 idea...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Von Foerster, Heinz, 1911-2002 (Author)
Other Authors: Müller, Karl H. (Editor), Müller, Albert, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Communication / General.
COMPUTERS / Cybernetics.
SCIENCE / History.
Science > Philosophy.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Cybernetics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • A Fore-word by the Series Editor
  • An Author's Fore-words
  • Fore-wards with Two Editors
  • Fore-taste of an Author with Two Editors
  • 1. First Day: Building Blocks, Observers, Emergence, Trivial Machines
  • 2. Second Day: Innovation, Life, Order, Thermodynamics
  • 3. Third Day: Movement, Species, Recursion, Selectivity
  • 4. Fourth Day: Cognition, Perception, Memory, Symbols
  • 5. Fifth Day: Communicating, Talking, Thinking, Falling
  • 6. Sixth Day: Experiences, Heuristics, Plans, Futures
  • 7. Seventh Day: Rest, Rest, Rest, Rest
  • Epilogue in Heaven.
  • Translators' Notes
  • Notes.

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