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Understanding Understanding : Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition by Heinz Von Foerster (2002, Hardcover)
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Understanding Understanding : Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition, Hardcover by Von Foerster, Heinz, ISBN 0387953922, ISBN-13 9780387953922, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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).
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer New York
ISBN-100387953922
ISBN-139780387953922
eBay Product ID (ePID)2173424
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXii, 362 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameUnderstanding Understanding : Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition
SubjectIntelligence (Ai) & Semantics, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, System Theory, Cybernetics
Publication Year2002
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaComputers, Science, Psychology
AuthorHeinz Von Foerster
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight55.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2001-057676
Dewey Edition21
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal003/.5
Table Of ContentOn 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.
SynopsisIn these ground-breaking 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. The author was one of the founders of the science of cybernetics., 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., Heinz von Foerster is one of the founders of the science of cybernetics: he produced the first parallel computers and contributed to many other path-breaking developments. In these essays he 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).
LC Classification NumberQ334-342
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