{"product_id":"the-beginning-of-heaven-and-earth-has-no-name-seven-days-with-second-order-cybernetics-hardback-9780823255603","title":"The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name; Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics (Hardback) 9780823255603","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSeven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHeinz von Foerster (Author), Albert Müller (Edited by), Karl H. Müller (Edited by), Elinor Rooks (Translated by), Michael Kasenbacher (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823255603\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 December 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e236 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of von Foerster's cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them. It distills concepts scattered across the lifework of this scientific polymath and influential interdisciplinarian. At the same time, as a book-length interview, it does justice to von Foerster's élan as a speaker and improviser, his skill as a raconteur.\u003cbr\u003e Developed from a week-long conversation between the editors and von Foerster near the end of his life, this work playfully engages von Foerster in developing the difference his notion of second-order cybernetics makes for topics ranging from emergence, life, order, and thermodynamics to observation, recursion, cognition, perception, memory, and communication.\u003cbr\u003e The book gives an English-speaking audience a new ease of access to the rich thought and generous spirit of this remarkable and protean thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580289118488,"sku":"9780823255603","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-beginning-of-heaven-and-earth-has-no-name-seven-days-with-second-order-cybernetics-hardback-9780823255603","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}