Stafford Beer:
Heinz von Foerster:
- Perception of the Future and The Future of Perception
- On Constructing a Reality
- Interview with Heinz von Foerster
- Thoughts and Notes on Cognition [extract]
- Disorder/Order: Discovery or Invention?
- Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics
- Cybernetics of Cybernetics
- Communication Amongst Automata (1962)
- Biological Principles of Information Storage and Retrieval (1967)
- Perception of Form in Biological and Man-Made Systems (1962)
- Responsibilities of Competence (1972)
- Notes on An Epistemology For Living Things (1972)
- Heuristics: A Report on a Course on Knowledge Aquisition (1970)
- From Stimulus to Symbol: The Economy of Biological Computation (1966)
- Logical Structure of Environment and Its Internal Representation (BCL 096)
- Metaphysics of an Experimental Epistemologist (1996)
(on Warren McCullough) - Form: Perception, Representation and Symbolization (1962)
Warren Weaver:
Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication
Claude Shannon:
A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)
Norbert Wiener, Arturo Rosenblueth, and Julian Bigelow:
Behavior, Purpose and Teleology (1943)
J.Y. Lettvin, H.R. Maturana, W.S. McCulloch, W.H. Pitts:
What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain (1959)
Humberto Maturana:
- Cognitive Strategies (1974)
- Ontology of Observing (1988)
- The Nature of Time (1995)
- The Biology of Language (1978)
- Cognition (1978)
- Biology of Cognition (1970)
David Hawkins:
The Nature of Purpose (From Cybernetics of Cybernetics)
W. Ross Ashby:
- An Introduction to Cybernetics (complete book)
- The Contribution of Information Theory to Pathological Mechanisms in Psychiatry (BCL #164) [1968]
Gregory Bateson:
The Position of Humor in Human Communication (1952)
Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead:
Conversation with Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead (1976)