The beginning of heaven and Earth has no name : seven days with second-order cybernetics / Heinz von Foerster ; edited by Albert M�uller and Karl H. M�uller ; translated by Elinor Rooks and Michael Kasenbacher.
Language: English Original language: German Series: Meaning systemsPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780823255603 (hardback)
- Anfang von Himmel und Erde hat keinen Namen. English
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- Q310 .V6613 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine 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.
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