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| Preface | |
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| A Foreword in Three Acts | |
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| Images of Reality | |
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| Biology of Perception | |
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| The representation of the world | |
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| We never see the same thing | |
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| A short skit | |
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| Decision against solipsism | |
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| Facets of Truth | |
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| Truth means war | |
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| The hidden workings of nature | |
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| The ethical imperative | |
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| Loss of the archimedic point | |
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| The metaphor of the dance | |
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| The Danger of the Label | |
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| Skeptical remarks on Constructivism | |
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| An attempt to get around the big words | |
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| Explaining the Explanation | |
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| Cause and effect | |
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| Laws of people and laws of nature | |
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| Why Socrates had to die | |
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| Trivial and nontrivial machines | |
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| The interaction of nontrivial machines | |
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| Perspectives in Practice | |
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| Teaching | |
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| The pupil as a nontrivial machine | |
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| "Tests test tests" | |
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| From teacher to researcher | |
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| Outline of an experiment | |
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| Psychotherapy | |
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| The distinction between sickness and health | |
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| Generating a new eigenbehavior | |
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| Learning to see white mice | |
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| Management | |
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| Thus spake the hierarchy | |
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| Thinking heterarchically | |
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| The Battle of Midway | |
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| Principles of self-organization | |
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| Communication | |
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| The world contains no information | |
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| Hermeneutics of the listener | |
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| Realities of the media | |
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| Cybernetics | |
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| The Fundamental Principle: Circularity | |
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| People and Machines | |
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| The Computer Metaphor of the Mind | |
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| Cybernetics of Cybernetics | |
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| We Do not See that We Do not See | |
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| All Cretans Lie | |
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| Biographical Excursions | |
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| Childhood and Youth | |
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| The world of Vienna | |
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| Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
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| Experiences of a magician | |
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| The Second World War and the Post-war Period | |
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| Survival in Berlin, the capital of the Reich | |
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| As "Dr. Heinrich" on the radio | |
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| Collective guilt or individual responsibility | |
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| A Jump to another World: America | |
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| Theory of memory | |
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| Beginnings of Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences | |
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| The Biological Computer Laboratory | |
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| Knowledge and Ethics | |
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| Ethics is not a Theory | |
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| Decidable and Undecidable Questions | |
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| Responsibility for the World | |
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| About the Authors | |