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  title info:
    title: Understanding understanding
    sub title: essays on cybernetics and cognition
  name:
    name part: Von Foerster, Heinz
    name part: 1911-2002
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: On self-organizing systems and their environments (1960) -- Computation in neural nets (1967) -- What is memory that it may have hindsight and foresight as well? (1969) -- Molecular Ethology: An immodest proposal for semantic clarification (1970) -- Thoughts and notes on cognition (1970) -- Responsibilities of competence (1972) -- On constructing a reality (1973) -- Cybernetics of epistemelogy (1974) -- Notes on an epistemology of living things (1974) -- Objects: Tokens for (eigen)behaviors (1976) -- Disorder/order: Discovery or invention (1984) -- Cybernetics of cybernetics (1979) -- Ethics and second-order cybernetics (1991) -- For Nicholas Luhmann: How recursive is communication (1993) -- Introduction to natural magic (1993) -- List of publications.
  note: Heinz von Foerster.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-349) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Cybernetics
  subject:
    topic: Cognition
  subject:
    topic: COMPUTERS
    topic: Cybernetics
  subject:
    topic: Cognition
  subject:
    topic: Cybernetics
  classification: Q315.5 .V64 2003eb
  classification: 003/.5
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Springer, ©2003
    identifier: (DLC) 2001057676
    identifier: (OCoLC)48536646
  identifier: 0387217223 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780387217222 (electronic bk.)
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 040806
    record change date: 20220105142421.0
    record identifier: in00002034126
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng