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Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him

If you desire to see, learn how to act.

The environment as we perceive it is our invention,

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

Act always so as to increase the number of choices

What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

Everything that is said is said by an observer.