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Heinz Von Foerster

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Gender Male
Death21 years ago
Date of birth November 13,1911
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Vienna
Austria
Date of died October 2,2002
DiedPescadero
California
United States
Known forSecond-order cybernetics
Von Foerster equation
Job Scientist
Education University of Wrocław
Vienna University of Technology
BooksUnderstanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition
The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics
Part of the World: Fractals of Ethics - a Drama in Three Acts
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Observing Systems
Parents Emil von Förster
Lilith Lang
Influence Gregory Bateson
W. Ross Ashby
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Gordon Pask
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
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Heinz von Foerster was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of second-order cybernetics. He was twice a Guggenheim fellow and also was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980.

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