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The formula gave 2.7 billion as the 1960 world population and predicted that population growth would become infinite by Friday, November 13, 2026 – von Foerster's 115th birthday anniversary – a prediction that earned it the name "the Doomsday Equation."
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]
The Dream of Reality: Heinz von Foerster's Constructivism is a book by Lynn Segal first published in 1986. [1] Segal, a licensed clinical social worker, examines the constructivist epistemology of physicist and philosopher Heinz von Foerster. Originally intended as a transcription of von Foerster's lectures, the book evolved into Segal's ...
Subsequent analysis notes that global use of natural resources has been inadequately reformed to alter its expected outcome. [b] Yet price predictions based on resource scarcity failed to materialize in the years since publication. Since its publication, some 30 million copies of the book in 30 languages have been purchased. [6]
Foerster, Heinz von. Observing Systems. Seaside, California: Intersystems Publications, 1981. OCLC 263576422; Foerster, Heinz von, Albert Müller, and Karl H. Müller. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics. Translated by Elinor Rooks and Michael Kasenbacher. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
Spencer-Brown is the author of a curious little book called Laws of Form, [12] which is essentially a reconstruction of the propositional calculus by means of an eccentric notation. The book, which the British mathematician John Horton Conway once described as beautifully written but "content-free," has a large circle of counterculture devotees.
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 ...