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The Dream of Reality Lynn Segal

The Dream of Reality By Lynn Segal

The Dream of Reality by Lynn Segal


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What if there were no objective facts, no objective truth, only our belief in them? Paradoxically, grasping the limits of our own understanding can free us to live more creative and meaningful personal and professional lives.

The Dream of Reality Summary

The Dream of Reality: Heinz von Foersters Constructivism by Lynn Segal

What if there were no objective facts, no objective truth, only our belief in them? What if our consciousness itself is an unconscious invention, constructed out of logic and language? In this thought-provoking volume, Lynn Segal describes how the ideas of Heinz von Foerster compel us to explore the question "Do we discover the world or do we invent it?". He suggests that we must first know how we think before we can claim knowledge of the world. While Constructivism may seem relevant only to those in the cognitive sciences, it is, in fact, highly relevant to everyone. Paradoxically, grasping the limits of our own understanding can free us to live more creative and meaningful personal and professional lives.

The Dream of Reality Reviews

SOME PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION:

"Segalamicably succeed(s) in making rather profound insights seductively easy to read and in maintaining von Foersters oratory flair
JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

"(a) richly provocative book
JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY

From the reviews of the second edition:

"Segal, a psychotherapist, initiated this work as a transcription of von Foersters lecture material; but it evolved instead into interpretation of von Foersters ideas in accessible language. The appendix contains an interview with von Foerster himself. This second edition is essentially a reissue of the first but it incorporates corrections and clarifications that von Foerster added to the German edition ." (Reference & Research Book News, November, 2001)

Table of Contents

Foreword by Heinz von Foester; Foreword by Paul Watzlawick; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Myth of Objectivity; 2. The Difficulties of Language; 3. Maturana and the Observer; 4. The Nervous System; 5. Computation; 6. Biocomputation; 7. Closure; Appendix: An Interview with Heinz von Foerster; Notes; Index.

Additional information

NPB9780387951300
9780387951300
038795130X
The Dream of Reality: Heinz von Foersters Constructivism by Lynn Segal
New
Paperback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2001-05-01
163
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