Understanding Understanding
Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition
Authors: Foerster, Heinz von
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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 definition of self-organizing systems (1960), the nature of cognition (1970), as well as recent expansions on these themes (e.g. "How recursive is communication," 1993). Working with Norbert Wiener, Warren McCullough, and others in the 1960s and 1970s, 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. At the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois he produced the first parallel computers and contributed to many other developments in the theory of computation and cognition.
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On Self-Organizing Systems and Their Environments
Pages 1-19
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Computation in Neural Nets
Pages 21-100
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What Is Memory that It May Have Hindsight and Foresight as well?
Pages 101-131
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Molecular Ethology, An Immodest Proposal for Semantic Clarification
Pages 133-167
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Thoughts and Notes on Cognition
Pages 169-189
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Understanding Understanding
- Book Subtitle
- Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition
- Authors
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- Heinz von Foerster
- Copyright
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-387-21722-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/b97451
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-95392-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-2982-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 362
- Topics
