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03849aam a2200565 i 4500 001 07CFCC9E1D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140806010537 008 130808s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013030580 020 $a 0823255611 (paper) 020 $a 9780823255610 (paper) 020 $a 0823255603 (hardback) 020 $a 9780823255603 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)855779242 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d CDX $d IUL $d GUA $d CHVBK $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a Q310 $b .V6613 2014 082 00 $a 003/.5 $2 23 084 $a BUS007000 $a COM017000 $a BUS007000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Von Foerster, Heinz, $d 1911-2002 $e author. 240 10 $a Anfang von Himmel und Erde hat keinen Namen. $l English 245 14 $a The beginning of heaven and Earth has no name : $b seven days with second-order cybernetics / $c Heinz von Foerster ; edited by Albert MuÌller and Karl H. MuÌller ; translated by Elinor Rooks and Michael Kasenbacher. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Fordham University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xxiv, 204 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Meaning systems 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a A Foreword by the Series Editor -- An Author's Forewords -- Forewords with Two Editors -- Fore-]taste of an Author with Two Editors -- Notes on the Translation -- Preface to the American Edition -- First Day: Building Blocks, Observers, Emergence, Trivial Machines -- Second Day: Innovation, Life, Order, Thermodynamics -- Third Day: Movement, Species, Recursion, Selectivity -- Fourth Day: Cognition, Perception, Memory, Symbols -- Fifth Day: Communicating, Talking, Thinking, Falling -- Sixth Day: Experiences, Heuristics, Plans, Futures -- Seventh Day: Rest, Rest, Rest, Rest -- Epilogue in Heaven. 520 $a "Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. 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. It distills concepts scattered across the lifework of this scientific polymath and influential interdisciplinarian. At the same time, as a book-length interview, it does justice to von Foerster's eÌlan 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, recursion, cognition, perception, memory, and communication. The book gives an English-speaking audience a new ease of access to the rich thought and generous spirit of this remarkable and protean thinker"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Cybernetics. 650 0 $a Knowledge, Theory of. 650 0 $a Science $x Philosophy. 650 7 $a SCIENCE / History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a COMPUTERS / Cybernetics. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Communication / General. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Von Foerster, Heinz, $d 1911-2002. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Kybernetik. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Erkenntnistheorie. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Konstruktivismus. $2 gnd 700 1 $a MuÌller, Albert, $d 1959- $e editor. 700 1 $a MuÌller, Karl H., $e editor. 700 1 $a Rooks, Elinor, $e translator. 700 1 $a Kasenbacher, Michael, $e translator. 830 0 $a Meaning systems. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021014624.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502024558.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=07CFCC9E1D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search