Understanding Understanding
Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition
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Automaton theory and cybernetics arose from the efforts to technically transpose the results of mathematical logic and abstract information theory. The comparison of machines and lives from the perspective of ...
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“The definition of a problem and the action taken to solve it largely depend on the view which the individuals or groups that discovered the problem have of the system to which it refers. A problem may thus fi...
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If “epistemology” is taken to be the theory of knowledge acquisition, rather than of knowledge per se, then—it is argued—the appropriate conceptual framework for such an epistemology is that of cybernetics, th...
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Herr von Foerster, mir fällt auf, daß in Ihrem Buch ‘Wissen und Gewissen — Versuch einer Brücke’ (1993a) einige neue Aufsätze vorgestellt werden, aber auch eine ganze Reihe alter Aufsätze gesammelt sind, die f...
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Heinz, since I first sought you out in my quest for epistemological foundations of software development, I have enjoyed finding myself in continuing communication with you. In the course of our conversations o...
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