Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen. - Heinz Von Foerster
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
- Heinz Von Foerster
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him. - Heinz Von Foerster
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
If you desire to see, learn how to act. - Heinz Von Foerster
If you desire to see, learn how to act.
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity. - Heinz Von Foerster
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. - Heinz Von Foerster
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
The environment as we perceive it is our invention. - Heinz Von Foerster
The environment as we perceive it is our invention.
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our… - Heinz Von Foerster
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our…
Act always so as to increase the number of choices - Heinz Von Foerster
Act always so as to increase the number of choices
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. - Heinz Von Foerster
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
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