PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA WEB - ©

Author: F. Heylighen,
Date : Aug 7, 1995 (modified); Oct 5, 1993 (created)
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Internet Resources related to Principia Cybernetica

Contents

Complexity, Self-Organization

• Complex Systems Web: a quite elaborate server with Hypermedia papers and pointers to other places
• Complexity International: refereed electronic journal on Complex Systems Research
• Information on Complex Adaptive Systems in different parts of the Internet
• Bruce Edmonds's extensive Bibliography on Complexity
• Santa Fe Institute for the Sciences of Complexity (ftp-server)
• Science on the Edge of Chaos: an interactive multimedia service on complexity and chaos including a series of TV programmes
• Nonlinearity and Complexity home page at Democritus University of Thrace
• Center for Complex Systems Research
• Australian National University Bioinformatics
• Non-linear Science E-print archive with papers and conference announcements on chaos, adaptation, self-organization etc.
• Self-organizing systems Home page (mostly about cybernetic philosophy)

Systems Science

• sci.systems: newsgroup on systems theory
• SUNY Binghamton's Systems Science Department, led by George Klir, one of the few with a full MSc and PhD program in general systems theory
• Advances in Systems Science and Applications: electronic journal from the International Institute for General Systems Studies
• University of Linz Institute of Systems Science, with free software for Computer-Aided Systems Theory (CAST)
• the International Federation of Systems Research
• IIASA: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (also: Gopher server)
• Systems Dynamics Group at MIT
• Institute for Systems Research (engineering) at Harvard
• Decision Analysis and Operations Research on the Web

Cybernetics and Control

• Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Vienna with a possibility for searching in a library database containing extensive literature on cybernetics and systems theory
• Paul Pangaro's home page with personal impressions about the history of cybernetics, and his relation with Gordon Pask
• Control System Group, developing W.T. Powers's Perceptual Control Theory of behavior: WWW-server, newsgroup bit.sci.purposive-behavior, gopher server, and FTP archive
• WWW Home page for Systems and Control Engineering
• Systems and Control Archive
• IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society (gopher, empty last time I looked at it)
• IEEE Control Systems Society (gopher)
• Moore's Laws of Bureaucracy: a humorous use of cybernetics to prove that bureaucracies are ineffective
• Entropy and Information Theory on the Web: background material on one of cybernetics' fundamental concepts
• Association for Cybernetics Research / AI Lab at Oakland University

Man-Machine Interaction

• Information about Human-Computer Interaction, including Hypertext and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
• Hyper-G gateway to the Human-Computer Interaction Bibliography project with lots of papers and books
• State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications by V. Balasubramanian
• "As We May Think", the famous 1945 article by Vannevar Bush anticipating hypertext
• UK Virtual Reality Special Interest Group
• Virtual Worlds archive
• Stanford's Project on People, Computers, and Design, headed by Terry Winograd
• Carnegie Mellon University's "Oz project" on generating virtual drama with real and computer-generated agents
• Center for Computer-Mediated Communication
• Towards an Astrophysical Cyberspace: The Evolution of User Interfaces (hypertext paper)
• Electronic Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
• Hiltz and Turoff's "Network Nation" revisited, a thesis on the present impact of Computer-Mediated Communication

AI, Cognitive Science

• Knowledge Science Institute (and the Int. J. Human-Computer Interaction)
• CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository with files, programs, texts, etc.
• Information about Artificial Intelligence
• Psycoloquy : electronic journal on psychology and cognitive science (keyword search of articles) and papers by its editor, Stevan Harnad
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences: archive of the journal with open peer commentary on cognitive and biobehavioral issues
• the Journal "Informatica" publishing papers on cybernetics, AI, and computer science from an interdisciplinary perspective
• Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
• Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory with lots of interesting stuff, including the Knowledge Sharing Technology Project with a library of ontologies
• the Semantic Network Processing System (SNePS) group at SUNY Buffalo
• Cognitive Science Research Papers from the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex
• Home page of the Cognitive Science Society
• Human Cognition Research Laboratory at the UK's Open University
• American Psychological Society
• an extensive list of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences on the Internet
• ChaoPsyk Browser: society for Chaos Theory in Psychology
• PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness
• Center for the Study of Language and Information in Stanford
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (all papers freely available over the Internet)
• PEIRCE: developments around conceptual graphs, a graphical, logic-based knowledge representation system
• Valerie Hardcastle's list of resources for Cognitive Science research

Memetics

• Marc de Hingh's The Meme Factory with lots of useful links
• Luc Claeys's "Behavior of Information", a treatise on how nature and mind can be better understood by seeing information as an "active", "living" substance
• information on memetics collected by M. Watz
• information on memetics collected by Eric Watt Forste
• Of Man, Mind and Machine, an essay on Meme-based Models of Mind and the possibility for consciousness in alternate media
• Memes: catchphrase of a new generation
• alt.memetics: Newsgroup on Memetics and its selected archive, introductory FAQ and list of memetic resources
• Evolution and the World-Wide Web: an analogy between URL's and individuals undergoing selection
• Church of Virus: a memetically engineered atheistic religion

Evolution

• Catalog of Information about Evolution on WWW
• Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution, a book by Gary Cziko
• Gary Cziko's and Donald T. Campbell's extensive bibliography of Selection Theory and Evolutionary Epistemology
• H.C. Speel's page on Evolution, Complexity and Philosophy
• Evolutionary/Geological Timeline
• the full text of Darwin's "Origin of Species"
• the History of Evolutionary thought and a tree (cladogram) depicting the Evolution of Dinosaurs at the Museum of Paleontology, (hypermedia exhibit at UC Berkeley)
• Ecology and Evolution archive (gopher)
• a review article on the theory of Punctuated Equilibria
• Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life
• newsgroup sci.bio.evolution on the biological theory of evolution (home page and archive (gopher))
• newsgroup talk.origins: informal discussions about evolution (and creationism!), has produced an extensive Web archive discussing different arguments in the evolution-creation debate, and including an especially rich set of FAQs on different mechanisms and examples of evolution
• newsgroup bionet.molbio.evolution on molecular biological methods for studying evolution
• sci.anthropology.paleo newsgroup on the evolutionary origin of human beings (homepage); see also the paleopantrhopology exhibit, with photos of major fossil findings

Alife, Evolutionary Systems and Simulations

• Artificial Life Online service with lots of info (news, bibliography, journals, ...)
• T.S. Ray: An evolutionary approach to synthetic biology (paper on artificial life)
• Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems research at the University of Sussex
• Illinois Genetic Algorithms Lab
• Interactive genetic art (evolves according to user preferences)
• Genetically programmed music
• FAQ's on Genetic Algorithms
• Artificial Life ftp server
• Karl Sims' Virtual Creatures: 3D, animated "life forms", developed through simulated evolution
• Intelligent Systems: >/a>Brendan Kitts's reflections on life, AI, and their future developments, with many useful references
• CWRU Autonomous Agents Research Group
• MIT Media Lab Autonomous Agents Group

Philosophy

• Philosophy in Cyberspace: a guide to philosophy resources on the Internet
• Liverpool University's guide to Philosophy resources
• University of Chicago Philosophy Project for the reading and discussion of texts
• UBC Center for Applied Ethics
• an extensive list of Internet services for philosophy
• Philosophy documents at CMU's English server
• American Philosophical Association gopher.
• Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy
• a Hypertext edition of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus(no longer available because of copyright reasons)
• Lots of material on Philosophy at Valdosta State University (Gopher)
• Directory of Philosophy Related Resources on the Internet
• IPPE: Preprints of Philosophy Papers
• ThinkNet: Newsletter on thoughtful conversation in Cyberspace
• "Virtual Reality and the Metaphysics of Self, Community and Nature" by W. Cooper
• Onar Aam's series of essays on the origin of knowledge, from a cybernetic perspective
• Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford's CSLI, with a tutorial on the theory of abstract objects
• home page of the journal Analysis
• the Origin Project: using the Internet to develop a universal philosophy / spiritual system, integrating insights from different religions and sciences

Integration of Available Knowledge

• the Globewide Network Academy wants to become a full university operating over the Internet, and already proposes a searchable Meta-Library of knowledge available over the Internet
• the latest incarnation of Project Xanadu, the original vision by Ted Nelson (who coined the word "hypertext") of a universal hypertext network
• WWW virtual library: edited catalog of WWW info classified according to subject
• EINet Galaxy: hierarchically organized subjects with search possibilities
• Yahoo: hierarchically organized subjects with search possibilities
• the BUBL subject tree (based on library classification codes) from the BUBL information services
• Joel's Hierarchical Subject Index is another attempt at organizing the knowledge available over the Internet

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc

• The Interpedia project wants to build an encyclopedia distributed over the Internet (newsgroup comp.infosystems.interpedia); see also the Global Encycopedia, another volunteer attempt
• Hypertext interface into Webster's Dictionary
• Hypertext interface into the Hackers' Dictionary
• Combined Technical and English Dictionaries at CERN
• Extensive Dictionary of Computing terms
• Dictionary of Cell Biology
• an extensive list of on-line dictionaries (mostly translating, also more general)
• WordNet is a lexical reference system containing some 100,000 English words, organized as a semantic network, with link types (including synonym, antonym, ISA, and HAS_PART) between words
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online (pay service)

Cyberspace and the Web

• The World-Wide Web Project
• Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace
• The World-Wide Web FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) with the list of all available WWW-software
• Information Sources: the internet and Computer-Mediated Communication
• The "Big Dummy's" Guide to the Internet
• proposals to develop a Virtual Reality interface to the World-Wide Web (VRML)
• Cyberspace: a paper on new protocols for a spatial interface to the Web
• MIT's Project for an Intelligent Information Infrastructure
• Project Metaphysics: Michael Heim's philosophical investigation of cyberspace and virtual reality
• Clinton and Gore's proposals for an American "National Information Infrastructure" ("Information Superhighways")

Tools for Web-making

• LaTeX to HTML (WWW Markup Language) conversion
• Automatic Visualization of Hypertext Webs
• archives of the WWW-Talk mailing list for developers of new WWW-applications and protocols
• How to write HTML documents
• Tips for WWW-information providers
• an enviroment for WWW publishing with structure and WYSIWYG editing

Future Development, Extending the human potential

• texts on Transhumanism: a philosophy that seeks to extend human capabilities to ever higher levels
• The Extropian Principles and other information about extropianism, a "transhumanist" movement that shares many ideas with Principia Cybernetica, but puts more emphasis on free market mechanisms and technological applications for human expansion
• Sci.life-extension: a newsgroup on methods for prolonging life, and its Archives with a FAQ
• Better thinking with chemistry: an introduction and overview of intelligence enhancing drugs
• Sasha Chislenko's home page with some articles on future ecology of distributed intelligence and related topics
• A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age: Cyberspace and the American dream, based on ideas from Toffler and others.
• Future work: mailing list on work in post-industrial society
• Essay on "Cyberocracy" by D. Ronfeldt

Various

• Serendip Home Page: notes and demonstrations on unexpected phenomena related to brain and behavior (Prisoner's dilemma, blind spot, etc.)
• an introductory hypertext book on astronomy, cosmology and the origin of the universe
• Autologue, a paper about self-organizing discussions on the Internet by Heath Michael Rezabek

• Extropians..., comment by R. Whitaker
• The Island Web, Comment by Bruc EisnerKnowledge Media, Comment by Rainer Blome
• State University in Portland, Oregon, offers a Systems Science PhD Program., Comment by Steve Shervais
• href ="[unarchived-link]">Try these!, Comment by Matt Ahlschwede
• href ="[unarchived-link]">Annotation, Comment by john lowman

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