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Heinz von Foerster

von Foerster
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Austrian-American physicist, secretary of the Macy Conferences, and architect of second-order cybernetics — the cybernetics of observing systems, which puts the observer inside the system being described.

He closes the loop the whole corpus depends on: the map-maker is standing in the territory. That move is what separates this material from ordinary epistemology.
Truth is the invention of a liar.
rhymes with
sephirahdaat
whyDaat is the knowledge that includes the knower and therefore cannot be stood on. Second-order cybernetics is that observation made formal.
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second order cybernetics · constructivism · observer
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