Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name
Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. It distills…
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Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name
Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. It distills concepts scattered across the lifework of this scientific polymath and influential interdisciplinarian. 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.
At the same time, as a book-length interview, it does justice to von Foerster's lan 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,