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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
Act always so as to increase the number of choices
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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.
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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
If you desire to see, learn how to act.
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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
The environment as we perceive it is our invention.
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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
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By AnonymHeinz Von Foerster
I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.
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