The beginning of heaven and Earth has no name : seven days with second-order cybernetics / Heinz von...
The beginning of heaven and Earth has no name : seven days with second-order cybernetics / Heinz von...
The beginning of heaven and Earth has no name : seven days with second-order cybernetics / Heinz von Foerster ; edited by Albert Müller and Karl H. Müller ; translated by Elinor Rooks and Michael Kasenbacher.
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G 2014/4870
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xxiv, 204 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
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, Or...
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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 ideas and of the philosophy latent within them. It distills conc...
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The beginning of heaven and Earth has no name : seven days with second-order cybernetics / Heinz von Foerster ; edited by Albert Müller and Karl H. Müller ; translated by Elinor Rooks and Michael Kasenbacher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Translated from the German.
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G 2014/4870
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74VKvmQd7ryl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKvmQd7ryl
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ISBN
0823255611 (paper)
9780823255603 (hardback)
0823255603 (hardback)
9780823255610 (paper)
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003/.5
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991021462989702626
