Understanding Understanding Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition /

• Main Author: Foerster, Heinz von (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2003.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; System theory.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Cognitive psychology.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Systems Theory, Control.; Cognitive Psychology.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.

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 definitio...