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Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition

By Heinz Von Foerster

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2002
ISBN
9780387953922, 0387953922
Open Library ID
OL22527170M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3213013 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
375\375
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

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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