A (cybernetic) musing: the gestation of second order cybernetics, 1968-1975 — a personal account

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Author: Glanville R.

Source: Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Volume 5, Number 2, 1998 , pp. 85-95(11)

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Abstract:

I am not sure that I believe it is consistent with the message of Second Order Cybernetics that history should be attempted. Perhaps I am a little extreme in this, but that is in my character. Anyhow, I am not the person to try to write that history which will be the history. The focus of my account lies in the groups Gordan Pask had around him: colleagues at System Research, students at Brunell University, and peers - especially at the Biological Computer Laboratory founded and directed by Heinz von Foerster.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 1998-01-01