An Unfinished Revolution?: Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory / BCL 1958-1976 - Hardcover
Synopsis
This beautiful anthology is the definitive account of the fascinating interdisciplinary Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois. This brave academic experiment proved to be a think tank for the emerging sciences of cybernetics and systems theory, while drawing in biology, the humanities, and art.
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Review
This is a fascinating analysis of the scientific agenda of Heinz von Foerster, clearly one of the major scientists of the twentieth century. No one did more to create a revolutionary transdisciplinary research program involving biology, the cognitive neurosciences, cybernetics, and the social sciences. Von Foerster was one of those scientific minds so far ahead of his time that even today scholars in all fields of scientific inquiry should study his programs so that we might eventually realize his objectives. This is a splendid collection of essays that challenges us to look back on von Foerster if we are to advance our efforts to learn more from others in diverse fields of inquiry. --J. Rogers Hollingsworth, University of Wisconsin
The Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led by Heinz von Foerster, was the nexus of Cybernetics and the point of origination of Second Order Cybernetics in the 1960s and 1970s. Here in this book, in these articles, drawings and photographs, it all comes back to life with a lucidity that belies the passing years and shows that this theory of feedback process and awareness indeed shares in the living world of the eternal forms. --Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois
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- PublisherEdition Echoraum
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 3901941126
- ISBN 13 9783901941122
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages509
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