"Heinz von Foerster was a physicist and philosopher, who worked extensively in cybernetics, biology and family therapy…"

"Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him. Involving objectivity is abrogating respo…"

"The "second order cyberneticians" claimed that knowledge is a biological phenomenon (Maturana, 1970), that each indiv…"

"Heinz performs the magic trick of convincing us that the familiar objects of our existence can be seen to be nothing …"

"The world, as we perceive it, is our own invention."

"While in the first quarter of this century physicists and cosmologists were forced to revise the basic notions that go…"

"To remove these one had to account for an “observer” (that is at least for one subject): (i) Observations are not abs…"

"What we need now is the description of the “describer” or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer."

"It seems that cybernetics is many different things to many different people. But this is because of the richness of i…"

"I don't know where my expertise is; my expertise is no disciplines. I would recommend to drop disciplinarity wherever…"