Understanding Understanding Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Springer Verlag
- Publish date: 11/01/2002
Description:
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, the definition of self-organizing systems, the nature of cognition, as well as recent expansions on these themes. 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.
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