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Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics
EthicsandSecond-OrderCyberneticsHeinzvon Foerster1991 LadiesandGentlemen:I amtouchedbythegenerosityoftheorganizerso fthisconferencewhonotonlyinvitedmeto cometo yourgloriouscityofParis,butalsogave wantedmetoaddressmyselfto EthicsandSecond-OrderCybernetics. To behonest,I wouldhave neverdaredtoproposesuchanoutrageoustitle ,butI mustsaythatI leftCaliforniaforParis,othersaskedmefull ofenvy, whatamI goingtodoinParis,whatwillI talkabout?WhenI answered IshalltalkaboutEthicsandSecond-OrderCybe rnetics almostallofthemlookedat meinbewildermentandasked, Whatis second -ordercybernetics? asif amrelievedwhenpeopleaskmeaboutsecond-ord ercyberneticsandnotaboutethics,becauseit is mucheasiertotalkaboutsecond-ordercyberne ticsthanit is is , andletmenow saya few wordsaboutcybernetics,andofcourse,thecyb erneticsofcybernetics, , cyberneticsariseswheneffectors(say, a motor, anengine,ourmuscles,etc.)
And here is the voice of her third husband, the epistemologist, anthropologist, cybernetician, and as some say, the papa of family therapy, Gregory Bateson, “Cybernetics is a branch of mathematics dealing with problems of control,
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