Heinz von Foerster

Heinz von Foerster was a famous scientist and philosopher. He studied a lot of things, like how our brains think and how we can understand the world around us. He thought that our brains can’t really understand the world as it really is, but instead we use our brains to make little “models” of how the world works and act based on those models. He also thought that the world is too complex for us to understand fully, so we can only ever understand it partially. He also helped to develop the field of cybernetics, which is the study of how computers and machines can imitate and even surpass the abilities of human brains in some ways.