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The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with SecondOrder Cybernetics (Meaning Systems),Used
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Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of secondorder 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 Foersters 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 booklength interview, it does justice to von Foersters lan as a speaker and improviser, his skill as a raconteur.Developed from a weeklong 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 secondorder cybernetics makes for topics ranging from emergence, life, order, and thermodynamics to observation, recursion, cognition, perception, memory, and communication.The book gives an Englishspeaking audience a new ease of access to the rich thought and generous spirit of this remarkable and protean thinker.
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