Understanding Understanding Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition /

• Main Author: Foerster, Heinz von. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2003.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; System theory.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Cognitive psychology.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Systems Theory, Control.; Cognitive Psychology.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.
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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 definitio...

Table of 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 for Living Things
• Objects: Tokens for (Eigen-)Behaviors
• Disorder/Order: Discovery or Invention?
• Cybernetics of Cybernetics
• Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics
• For Niklas Luhmann: ỚSHow Recursive is Communication?Ớ<U+00fd>
• to Natural Magic
• Publications.