LEADER 03945nam 22007091 450 001 9910789577303321 005 20230120051317.0 010 $a0-8232-5563-8 010 $a0-8232-5564-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823255634 035 $a(CKB)3710000000024726 035 $a(EBL)3239857 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036790 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11575447 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036790 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11042226 035 $a(PQKB)10217250 035 $a(DE-B1597)555311 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823255634 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239857 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10778846 035 $a(OCoLC)913804688 035 $a(OCoLC)1178768806 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1643962 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239857 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1643962 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4717462 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000024726 100 $a20130808d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe beginning of heaven and Earth has no name $eseven days with second-order cybernetics /$fHeinz von Foerster ; edited by Albert Mu?ller and Karl H. Mu?ller ; translated by Elinor Rooks and Michael Kasenbacher 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 225 0 $aMeaning systems 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-5560-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $aHeinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of von Foerster?s cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them. It distills concepts scattered across the lifework of this scientific polymath and influential interdisciplinarian. At the same time, as a book-length interview, it does justice to von Foerster?s élan as a speaker and improviser, his skill as a raconteur.Developed from a week-long conversation between the editors and von Foerster near the end of his life, this work playfully engages von Foerster in developing the difference his notion of second-order cybernetics makes for topics ranging from emergence, life, order, and thermodynamics to observation, recursion, cognition, perception, memory, and communication.The book gives an English-speaking audience a new ease of access to the rich thought and generous spirit of this remarkable and protean thinker. 410 0$aMeaning Systems (FUP) 606 $aCybernetics 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 615 0$aCybernetics. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 676 $a003/.5 700 $aVon Foerster$b Heinz$f1911-2002.$0156727 701 $aMu?ller$b Albert$f1959-$01568644 701 $aMu?ller$b Karl H$01568645 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789577303321 996 $aThe beginning of heaven and Earth has no name$93840919 997 $aUNINA