Cognitive Strategies
Humberto R. Maturana
My purpose in this article is to discuss cognition in relation to man and the unity of man, in an attempt to show that any notion that we may have about th...
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OPINION
biology of cognition
The Biological Foundations of Virtual Realities and Their Implications for Human Existence
Humberto Maturana Romesín A Instituto de Formaci...
THE PROCESS FROM OBSERVED SYSTEMS TO OBSERVING SYSTEMS
Lic. Sara B. Jutoran M.F.T.
I, Sara B. Jutoran M.F.T. hereby authorize Dr.Honggang Yang, Dean of Nova University, School of Humanities and S...
"We are a composite, a composition of heartaches and happiness, of misfortune and good luck. And we must realise that frustrations are there for us to rise above it and to change it into a kinetic ...
Business organisations generally like to have a competitive advantage in their market. The strategic management paradigm develops theory to help this occur. Its early theory arises from optimising ...
ethics and second-order cybernetics
Heinz von Foerster
Ladies and Gentlemen: I am touched by the generosity of the organizers of this conference, who not only invited me to come to your glorious ...
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evolution of cybernetics
as with all forms of technology, advancement...
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CYBERNETICS: A Definition
[In 1990 Heinz von Foerster was approached by Macmillan to compose an entry for their 1991 Macmillan Encycl...
CYBERNETICS AND THE MANGLE: ASHBY, BEER AND PASK* Andrew Pickering University of Illinois Department of Sociology 326 Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801 PICKERIN@UIUC.EDU
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Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Vol.8, no.1–2, 2001, pp. 157–160
Biosemiotica1
Winfried Nöth2
With this special issue on biosemiotics, the general editor of Semiotica, Thomas A. Sebeok, pursues once...
Viable systems theory is a development of managerial cybernetics within a critical
systems theory context. The theory not only addresses cybernetics, it also shows how politics is fundamental to i...
The Past-Future of Cybernetics: Conversations, Von Foerster, and the BCL
Paul Pangaro, Ph.D. Cybernetic Lifestyles 950 Columbus Avenue, Suite #1 San Francisco, CA 94133 USA pan@pangaro.com ABSTRACT...
General systems theory - the skeleton of science E:CO Special Double Issue Vol. 6 Nos. 1-2 Fall 2004 pp.127-139
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General systems theory: The skeleton of science
Kenneth E. Boulding
Repri...
Disorder/Order: Discovery or Invention?
Heinz von Foerster 1984
Ladies and Gentlemen: This is a great symposium. I enjoy every minute of it. However, I feel there is a blemish, and this is that Gr...
Cyborgs
Submitted by: Rakesh B
What is a cyborg ?
Cyborg = ‘Cybernetic Organism’ Term coined by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline in 1960. In real life, “cyborg'' can be applied to anyone...
Responsibilities of Competence
Heinz Von Foerster BCL #223 (1972)
At our last Annual Symposium I submitted to you a theorem to which Stafford Beer referred on another occasion as “Heinz Von Foerste...
Biology of Cognition
Humberto R. Maturana (1970)
Biological Computer Laboratory Research Report BCL 9.0. Urbana IL: University of Illinois, 1970. As Reprinted in: Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Rea...
Magoroh Maruyama (1963): The Second Cybernetics: Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes, American Scientist 5:2, pp. 164--179.
THE SECOND CYBERNETICS
Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Proc...
Systems Research and Behavioral Science Syst Res. 16, 203-219 (1999)
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Systemics and Cybernetics in a Historical Perspective
Charles François*
Argentine Association for General Syste...