Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition - Softcover

Foerster, Heinz Von

 
9781441929822: Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition

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Heinz von Foerster is one of the founders of the science of cybernetics: he produced the first parallel computers and contributed to many other path-breaking developments. In these essays he 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 definition of self-organizing systems (1960), the nature of cognition (1970).

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In these ground-breaking 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. The author was one of the founders of the science of cybernetics.

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ISBN 10:  0387953922 ISBN 13:  9780387953922
Verlag: Springer, 2002
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