Understanding Understanding

By Heinz von Foerster. Springer: New York, 2002

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Pastoralism: A critical asset for food security under global climate change (2013, background): “The question whether pastoralism is “on its way out” or is “the way forward” is of the kind that Heinz von Foerster (2002), the founder of second-order cybernetics, called “undecidable questions”: questions for which there is no compellingly conclusive answer.”