Author H. Foerster
Foerster H. von (1949) Cybernetics: Transactions of the Sixth Conference. Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York.
Foerster H. von
(
1949)
Cybernetics: Transactions of the Sixth Conference.
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York.
Foerster H. von (1949) Quantum Mechanical Theory of Memory. In: Cybernetics: Transactions of the Sixth Conference. Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York: 112–145.
Foerster H. von
(
1949)
Quantum Mechanical Theory of Memory.
In: Cybernetics: Transactions of the Sixth Conference. Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York: 112–145.
Foerster H. von (1954) Experiment in the popularization of science. Nature 174: 284–285.
Foerster H. von
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1954)
Experiment in the popularization of science.
Nature 174: 284–285.
Review of “Die Welt der ungewohnten Dimensionen” by Arnold Hildesheimer.
Foerster H. von (1958) Basic concepts of homeostasis. In: Homeostatic mechanisms (Brookhaven Symposia in Biology, No. 10). Brookhaven Laboratory, Upton NY: 216–242.
Foerster H. von
(
1958)
Basic concepts of homeostasis.
In: Homeostatic mechanisms (Brookhaven Symposia in Biology, No. 10). Brookhaven Laboratory, Upton NY: 216–242.
Foerster H. von (1959) Some Remarks on Changing Populations. In: Stohlman F. J. (ed.) The Kinetics of Cellular Proliferation. Grune and Stratton, New York: 382–407.
Foerster H. von
(
1959)
Some Remarks on Changing Populations.
In: Stohlman F. J. (ed.) The Kinetics of Cellular Proliferation. Grune and Stratton, New York: 382–407.
Foerster H. von (1960) Bionics in Bionics Symposium. Technical Report 60–600. Wright Air Development Division.
Foerster H. von
(
1960)
Bionics in Bionics Symposium.
Technical Report 60–600. Wright Air Development Division.
Foerster H. von (1960) On Self-Organizing Systems and Their Environments. In: Yovits M. C. & Cameron S. (eds.) Self-Organizing Systems. Pergamon Press, London: 31–50. https://cepa.info/1593
Foerster H. von
(
1960)
On Self-Organizing Systems and Their Environments.
In: Yovits M. C. & Cameron S. (eds.) Self-Organizing Systems. Pergamon Press, London: 31–50.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/1593
Excerpt: I open my paper by presenting the following thesis: “There are no such things as self-organizing systems!” In the face of the title of this conference I have to give a rather strong proof of this thesis, a task which may not be at all too difficult, if there is not a secret purpose behind this meeting to promote a conspiracy to dispose of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. I shall now prove the non-existence of self-organizing systems by reductio ad absurdum of the assumption that there is such a thing as a self-organizing system.
Foerster H. von (1960) Some Aspects in the Design of Biological Computers. In: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Cybernetics. International Cybernetics Association, Namur: 241–255.
Foerster H. von
(
1960)
Some Aspects in the Design of Biological Computers.
In: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Cybernetics. International Cybernetics Association, Namur: 241–255.
Foerster H. von (1962) Bio-Logic. In: Bernard E. E. & Kare M. A. (eds.) Biological Prototypes and Synthetic Systems. Plenum Press, New York: 1–12. https://cepa.info/1609
Foerster H. von
(
1962)
Bio-Logic.
In: Bernard E. E. & Kare M. A. (eds.) Biological Prototypes and Synthetic Systems. Plenum Press, New York: 1–12.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/1609
Excerpt: The capacity of selfreproduction, although omnipresent in the animate world, is tied up with a host of other characteristics of living organisms and cannot claim to be a fundamental principle. I propose to consider as a fundamental principle of living things their capacity to form coalitions. Thus, sexual reproduction appears to be only a particular manifestation of this capacity. What I call a “coalition” is an aggregate of elements which jointly can do things which all of them separately could never achieve.
Foerster H. von (1962) Biological ideas for the engineer. The New Scientist 15: 173–174.
Foerster H. von
(
1962)
Biological ideas for the engineer.
The New Scientist 15: 173–174.
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