Addressed to dissimilar groups of scientists, engineers, philosophers, and laymen, this volume offers selected writings of a scientist on how brains work in terms of the circuit action of the brain.
Introduction: An Epistemological Transition -- Part I. Gaia Discourse -- A Paradigm Shift -- Thinkers of Gaia -- Neocybernetics of Gaia -- Part II. The Systems Counterculture -- The Whole Earth Network -- The Lindisfarne Connection -- Margulis and Autopoiesis -- Part III. Gaian …
Two central ideas have become part of the orthodoxy of modern family therapy thinking. The first is that the therapist is part of the system he or she observes, and the second is that the therapist and family create a co-evolving reality through their interactions until now. No …
In the era of cybernetics, architects suddenly encountered entirely new ways of operating technical systems: buildings could be calculated using circuit diagrams, creativity and imagination were confronted with the technical intelligence of thinking machines. Architects found th…
In the era of cybernetics, architects suddenly encountered entirely new ways of operating technical systems: buildings could be calculated using circuit diagrams, creativity and imagination were confronted with the technical intelligence of thinking machines. Architects found th…
In der Epoche der Kybernetik sahen sich die Architekten mit neuen operativen Möglichkeitsräumen in technischen Systemen konfrontiert: Gebäude wurden durch Schaltdiagramme errechnet, Kreativität und Fantasie wurde die technische Intelligenz von Denkmaschinen gegenübergestellt. Im…