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

(Part of the Meaning Systems Series)

by Heinz von Foerster

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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 concepts scattered across the lifework of this scientific polymath and influential interdisciplinarian...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0823255603

ISBN13:9780823255603

Release Date:December 2013

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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