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      The Dream of Reality: Heinz von Foerster’s Constructivism

      Lynn Segal

      What if there were no objective facts, no objective truth, only our belief in them? Paradoxically, grasping the limits of our own understanding can free us to live more creative…

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      Cybernetics: Circular Causal, and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems

      Transactions Of The Sixth Conference, March 24-25, 1949. Contributing Authors Include John Stroud, Lawrence S. Kubie, Heinz Von Foerster And Norbert Wiener.

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      Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition

      Heinz von Foerster

      In these ground-breaking 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…

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      Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics

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      How real is reality? Are our images of the world mere inventions, or does an external reality correspond to them? They discuss the seeming objectivity of our sensual perception, the…

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      Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition

      Heinz von Foerster

      Heinz von Foerster is one of the founders of the science of cybernetics: he produced the first parallel computers and contributed to many other path-breaking developments. In these essays he…

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      Konstruktivismus Und Kognitionswissenschaft: Kulturelle Wurzeln Und Ergebnisse. Heinz Von Foerster Gewidmet

      Heinz von Foerster gehoert zu den fruhen Vordenkern heutiger Leitwissenschaften wie Kybernetik, Informatik, Computerwissenschaften usw. Dieser Band setzt sich mit der Biographie dieses bedeutenden Wissenschaftlers und den Wiener Wurzeln seiner…

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

      Heinz von Foerster

      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…

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

      Heinz von Foerster

      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…

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