Understanding Understanding

Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition

Heinz Von Foerster

374 pages, parution le 17/12/2002

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Résumé

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.

Contents

On Self-Organizing Systems and Their Environments
Computation in Neural Nets
What is Memory that it May Have Hindsight and Foresight as Well?
Molecular Ethology: An Immodest Proposal for Semantic Clarification
Thoughts and Notes on Cognition
Responsibilities of Competence
Perception of the Future and the Future of Perception
On Constructing a Reality
Cybernetics of Epistemology
Notes on an Epistemology of Living Things
Objects: Tokens for (Eigen-) Behaviors
Disorder/Order: Discovery or Invention?
Cybernetics of cybernetics
Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics
For Nicholas Luhmann: " How recursive is communication?"
Introduction to Natural Magic
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L'auteur - Heinz Von Foerster

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Heinz Von Foerster
Parution	17/12/2002
Nb. de pages	374
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	641g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780387953922
ISBN13	978-0-387-95392-2