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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Von Foerster, Heinz, 1911-2002, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cybernetics.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name".
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Announcement Page
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A Foreword by the Series Editor
- An Author's Forewords
- Forewords with Two Editors
- Foretaste of an Author with Two Editors
- Notes on the Translation
- Preface to the American Edition
- List of Abbreviations
- 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
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780823255627
- 082325562X
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