Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition
Author:   Heinz von Foerster
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2003 ed.
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9780387953922


Pages:   362
Publication Date:   14 November 2002
Format:   Hardback
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In these 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 that knowledge. Included are path- breaking articles concerning the principles of computation in neural nets (1967), the definition of self-organizing systems (1960), the nature of cognition (1970), as well as recent expansions on these themes (e.g. ""How recursive is communication,"" 1993). Working with Norbert Wiener, Warren McCullough, and others in the 1960s and 1970s, von Foerster was one of the founders of the science of cybernetics, which has had profound effects both on modern systems theory and on the philosophy of cognition. At the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois he produced the first parallel computers and contributed to many other developments in the theory of computation and cognition.

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Author:   Heinz von Foerster
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2003 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.570kg
ISBN:  

9780387953922


ISBN 10:   0387953922
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   14 November 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

On Self-Organizing Systems and Their Environments.- Computation in Neural Nets.- What Is Memory that It May Have Hindsight and Foresight as well?.- Molecular Ethology, An Immodest Proposal for Semantic Clarification.- Thoughts and Notes on Cognition.- Responsibilities of Competence.- Perception of the Future and the Future of Perception.- On Constructing a Reality.- Cybernetics of Epistemology.- Notes on an Epistemology for Living Things.- Objects: Tokens for (Eigen-)Behaviors.- Disorder/Order: Discovery or Invention?.- Cybernetics of Cybernetics.- Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics.- For Niklas Luhmann: “How Recursive is Communication?”.- to Natural Magic.- Publications.

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