The beginning of heaven and Earth has no name : seven days with second-order cybernetics / Heinz von Foerster ; edited by Albert Muller and Karl H. Muller ; translated by Elinor Rooks and Michael Kasenbacher.

By: Von Foerster, Heinz, 1911-2002Contributor(s): Muller, Albert, 1959- | Muller, Karl HMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Meaning systemsPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceUniform titles: Anfang von Himmel und Erde hat keinen Namen. English Subject(s): Cybernetics | Knowledge, Theory of | Science -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beginning of heaven and Earth has no name.DDC classification: 003/.5 LOC classification: Q310 | .V6613 2014Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- A Fore-word by the Series Editor -- An Author's Fore-words -- Fore-wards with Two Editors -- Fore-taste of an Author with Two Editors -- 1. First Day: Building Blocks, Observers, Emergence, Trivial Machines -- 2. Second Day: Innovation, Life, Order, Thermodynamics -- 3. Third Day: Movement, Species, Recursion, Selectivity -- 4. Fourth Day: Cognition, Perception, Memory, Symbols -- 5. Fifth Day: Communicating, Talking, Thinking, Falling -- 6. Sixth Day: Experiences, Heuristics, Plans, Futures -- 7. Seventh Day: Rest, Rest, Rest, Rest -- Epilogue in Heaven. -- Translators' Notes -- Notes.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- A Fore-word by the Series Editor -- An Author's Fore-words -- Fore-wards with Two Editors -- Fore-taste of an Author with Two Editors -- 1. First Day: Building Blocks, Observers, Emergence, Trivial Machines -- 2. Second Day: Innovation, Life, Order, Thermodynamics -- 3. Third Day: Movement, Species, Recursion, Selectivity -- 4. Fourth Day: Cognition, Perception, Memory, Symbols -- 5. Fifth Day: Communicating, Talking, Thinking, Falling -- 6. Sixth Day: Experiences, Heuristics, Plans, Futures -- 7. Seventh Day: Rest, Rest, Rest, Rest -- Epilogue in Heaven. -- Translators' Notes -- Notes.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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