Heinz von Foerster was a physicist and philosopher, who worked extensively in cybernetics, biology and family therapy, although he hated being categorised as belonging to a particular academic discipline. Indeed he once remarked that “I am Viennese. That is the only label that I have to accept. I come from Vienna; I was born there, that's an established fact” (von Foerster and Poerksen 2002, p. 43).
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Ramage, M., Shipp, K. (2009). Heinz von Foerster. In: Systems Thinkers. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-525-3_19
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