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by nick_urban 4533 days ago
A transcript of the brilliant speech by Heinz von Foerster titled "Ethics and Second Order Cybernetics". When I read this I found it truly amazing, because it effortlessly connected the existential questions I was facing with the formalism of mathematics and the insight of the humanities, all tied into a beautiful circle.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/foerster.html