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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Von Foerster, Heinz, 1911-2002 (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Müller, Karl H. (Éditeur intellectuel), Müller, Albert, 1959- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Alemán
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.