Dream of Reality

• 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.

SOME PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION: "Segal...amicably succeed(s) in making rather profound insights seductively easy to read and in maintaining von Foerster's 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 Foerster's lecture material; but it evolved instead into interpretation of von Foerster's 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)