Heinz von Foerster und die Kybernetik 2. Ordnung (Second-Order Cybernetics)
Vita	Konzepte	Forschung	Didaktik	Information

"I specifically want to consider the significance of the set of cross-disciplinary ideas which we first called 'feed-back' and then called 'teleological mechanisms' and then called 'cybernetics' -- a form of cross-disciplinary thought which made it possible for members of many disciplines to communicate with each other easily in a language which all could understand. And here is the voice of her third husband, the epistemologist, anthropologist, cybernetician, and, as some say, the papa of family therapy, Gregory Bateson: Cybernetics is a branch of mathematics dealing with problems of control, recursiveness and information." (v. Foerster)

Vita

Heinz von Foerster Ethics and second-order cybernetics

Heinz von Foerster, the scientist, the man (Francisco Varela) Since then and until today Heinz has been an untiring ear and friendly advisor. His ethical and human qualities are impeccable, and they have been a source of much needed inspiration. Thus, this is the right place for me to restate all my enormous debt towards him. Without his influenceand his presence for the last 30 years, my life would have lacked a deep, joyous, and nourishing dimension. I call him Heinz the Great.

Interview Heinz von Foerster (Stefano Franchi, Güven Güzeldere and Eric Minch) "We think you are most qualified to facilitate such a dialogue since you have trotted along many disciplinary paths in your career, ranging from mathematics and physics to biophysics and hematology, to pioneering work on cybernetics, to philosophy, and even family therapy. One could even say that transdisciplinarity" has been your expertise. . ." .

Konzepte

Ecology of Mind page (Vincent Kenny) This page makes the bridging connections from Ecology [as having to do with nature, the environment etc.] to Psychology [as the attempts to understand our human experiencing].

Forschung

vgl. auch v. Glasersfeld Radikaler Konstruktivismus

CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES (Links, Gehirnforschung)