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Heinz von Foerster (né von Förster; November 13, 1911 – October 2, 2002) was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of second-order cybernetics.
Heinz von Foerster argued that humanity's abilities to construct societies, civilizations and technologies do not result in self-inhibition. Rather, societies' success varies directly with population size. Von Foerster found that this model fits some 25 data points from the birth of Jesus to 1958, with only 7% of the variance left
The McKendrick–von Foerster equation is a linear first-order partial differential equation encountered in several areas of mathematical biology – for example, demography [1] and cell proliferation modeling; it is applied when age structure is an important feature in the mathematical model. [2]
Hypothetical examples include Heinz von Foerster's facetious "Doomsday's equation" ... the equation y 2 − x 3 = 0 defines a curve that has a cusp at the origin x ...
Second-order cybernetics is closely identified with Heinz von Foerster and the work of the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Foerster attributes the origin of second-order cybernetics to the attempts by cyberneticians to construct a model of the mind:
— Heinz von Foerster, Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics. What if the unknown is not a flaw to be eradicated but a dynamic potential to be engaged? Artificial intelligence, in its current state ...
Heinz von Foerster proposed Redundancy, R = 1 − H/H max, where H is entropy. [21] [22] In essence this states that unused potential communication bandwidth is a measure of self-organization. In the 1970s Stafford Beer considered this condition as necessary for autonomy which identifies self-organization in persisting and living systems.
Ostensibly a work of formal mathematics and philosophy, LoF became something of a cult classic: it was praised by Heinz von Foerster when he reviewed it for the Whole Earth Catalog. [5] Those who agree point to LoF as embodying an enigmatic "mathematics of consciousness ", its algebraic symbolism capturing an (perhaps even "the") implicit root ...