The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics

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Agre, Philip E., xvi Albertus Magnus, 169 Aldrovandi, Ulyssis, 86, 87 Allende, Salvador, 47, 175, 176, 177 anthropic principle, 9 Aristotle, xx, 112, 132, 170 artificial intelligence, 112, 143, 144 Ashby, W. Ross, ix, 24, 25, 66, 92, 109, 112, 133, 140, 174, 189 Ashby Box, 24, 25 attractor, 67, 68, 84, 142 auditory cortex, 83, 102, 103 Augustinus, 130 autobiography, 47 automaton, 50, 111, 112, 113 autopoiesis, 47, 48, 121, 143, 144, 172, 189 Bateson, Catherine M., 55, 113 Bateson, Gregory, ix, 55, 113, 116, 120, 121, 127, 132, 135, 136, 138, 153 behaviorism, 57 BCL (Biological Computer Laboratory), ix, 37, 47, 58, 68, 69, 95, 110, 111, 122, 125, 140, 145, 155, 161, 162, 174, 189 Beer, Stafford, 174, 175, 176, 177 Bernoulli, Jakob, 8 Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 30, 31, 33, 34 Bessie, Cornelia, 12 Bielefeld, 172 Big Bang, 3, 5 bioautography, 47 biocybernetics, xiv bionics, 143, 144 Boltzmann, Ludwig, 31, 32, 33 Bolyai, János, 150 Brahe, Tycho, 139 Braitenberg, Valentino, xvi Breidbach, Olaf, 92 Brün, Herbert, 189 building blocks, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 125 Cajal, Ramón y, 101 California, 73 Capra, Fritjof, 139 calculus of variations, 8 chaos theory, 68, 142 Charles the Great (Charlemagne), 136 Chicago, 100 Chile, xvi, 47, 175, 176 Chomsky, Noam, 125, 127, 136, 137, 138 Clarke, Bruce, xxv Index 200 Index cognition, xiv, xv, xvi, 3, 13, 17, 38, 54, 90, 91, 94, 95, 97, 100, 104, 105, 106, 108, 111, 113, 122, 137, 156, 161 communication, xxi, 116–20 complexity, 9, 39, 40, 45 conscience, xx, 101, 128–31 consciousness, 17, 57, 128–31, 167, 168 conversation, x, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xx, xxi, xxiii, 18, 19, 21, 27, 45, 49, 51, 54, 57, 58, 59, 63, 66, 70, 75, 85, 89, 90, 91, 93, 95, 96, 106, 123, 126–30, 135. 142, 147, 153, 164, 167, 171, 172, 173, 178, 183 continuum, 11, 13 Copernican revolution, 139 cybernetics, 68, 170, 171 Damasio, Antonio R., 94 Dancoff, Sydney M., 109 Darwin, Charles, 87 Dennett, Daniel, 94 description, 40, 41, 48, 63, 73 discovery, 6 dissipative systems, 33 distinction, 71, 72, 117 Domarus, Eilhard von, 92 Doppler, Christian, 6 Duarte’s Tavern, 87, 105, 192 DuPont, 163, 164 dynamic equilibrium, 8 Ebbinghaus, Hermann, 107 Eccles, John, 101 Eco, Umberto, 88 Edelman, Gerald, 94 Eigen, Manfred, 191 eigenbehavior, 22, 25, 26, 28, 59, 60, 63, 64, 75, 91, 124, 126, 138 eigendescription, 61 eigenfunction, 77 eigenoperation, 65, 69, 76 eigenproblem, 60 eigensolutions, 26, 28, 177 eigenvalue, 17, 23, 25–28, 59, 61, 64, 65, 67, 69, 75, 76, 77, 91, 124, 142, 177 Einstein, Albert, 11 emergence, 15, 17, 18, 28, 33, 142 environment, 2, 53, 71, 78, 84, 86, 88, 116, 120, 141, 147, 168, 171, 180 Epimenides, 131 Erkenntnis, 166, 167 Escher, M. C., 35 ethics, 169 Euclid, 149, 150 evolution, 49, 50, 66, 69, 83–88, 97–100, 113, 118 explanatory principle (Bateson), 45, 113, 127 Feigenbaum, Mitchell, 65 Fleck, Ludwik, 140 Flores, Fernando, 176, 177, 197 Florida, 72 Fodor, Jerry, 138, 154 Foerster, Johannes von, 182 Foerster, Lilith, 167, 194 Foerster, Mai von, 11, 47, 176 Foerster, Thomas von, 182 folk psychology, 104, 105 Frankl, Viktor, 183 functor, 76, 77 Gall, Franz Joseph, 104 Gazzaniga, Michael S., 134 Gell-Mann, Murray, 94 Genesis, 3 genotype/phenotype, 53, 54, 55, 60 Glasersfeld, Ernst von, 85, 125, 141, 149 Gödel, Kurt, 133 Index 201 Grimm brothers, 105, 106, 152, 153 Günther, Gotthard, ix, 51, 52, 140, 189 Hamburg, 177 heat death, 34, 57 Heidelberg, xvii Heinz von Foerster Archive, x Heinz von Foerster Society, x hermeneutical principle, xii heuristics, xiv, xv, xix, 11, 147, 157, 177, 178 Hilbert, David, 64, 68 Hoffmann, E.T.A., 112 Hofstadter, Douglas R., 94 Holland, John, 94 Illich, Ivan, 57 Innsbruck, 98 Inselberg, Alfred, 189 instinct, 74, 113, 115, 127 invent, invention, xx, xxii, 3, 5, 6, 15, 22, 25, 39, 45, 53, 54, 60, 70, 71, 74, 83, 106, 118, 122, 126, 132, 134, 135, 139, 142, 144, 150, 156, 178, 181, 182 inversion, 51, 54, 92, 148, 149, 150, 166, 184 Kahn, Fritz, 192 Kant, Immanuel, xx Kasenbacher, Michael, xxv Katz, Jerrold, 154 Kepler, Johannes, 45 Koch, Helge von, 67, 68, 69, 191 Kohler, Ivo, 97 Konorski, Jerzy, 80, 81 Korzybski, Alfred, 151 Kraus, Karl, 121 Kuhn, Thomas, 139 Kürnberger, Ferdinand, xi, xii La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 112 Lang, Marie, 2, 167, 168...