THE ATLAS OF THE REALITY TUNNEL

Understanding Understanding

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The collected essays of the Macy Conferences' secretary and the founder of second-order cybernetics: the observer folded into every system that contains one.

Where the feedback loop turns around and includes you — the formal twin of consciousness of abstracting. The map-maker, mapped.

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sephirahbinah

whyUnderstanding examining its own machinery.

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second order · observer · constructivism

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