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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 | |