- Principia Cybernetica Web - ©

Author: F. Heylighen, C. Joslyn,
Date: Mar 2, 1995 (modified); Aug 1993 (created)

Parent Node(s):

• Overview of Principia Cybernetica
• Project Organization

Bibliography on Principia Cybernetica

Papers

1. Bollen J. (1994): "The Principia Cybernetica Web - Using the Internet to consult a knowledge base for systems research", Newsletter of the International Federation for Systems Research No. 34/35, p. 8.
2. Heylighen F. (1991): "Cognitive Levels of Evolution: pre-rational to meta-rational", in: The Cybernetics of Complex Systems, F. Geyer (ed.), (Intersystems, Salinas, California), p. 75-92.
3. Heylighen F. (1992): "Principles of Systems and Cybernetics", in: Cybernetics and Systems '92, R. Trappl (ed.), (World Science, Singapore), p. 3-10.
4. Heylighen F., Joslyn C. & Turchin V. (1991) : "A Short Introduction to the Principia Cybernetica Project", Journal of Ideas 2, #1 p. 26-29.
5. Heylighen F. (1993): "Selection Criteria for the Evolution of Knowledge", in: Proc. 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Association Internat. de Cybernetique, Namur), p. 529.
6. Heylighen F. (1994): "Fitness as Default: the evolutionary basis for cognitive complexity reduction", in: Cybernetics and Systems '94, R. Trappl (ed.), (World Science, Singapore), p.1595-1602.
7. Heylighen F. & Bollen J.: "Development and Publication of Systems Knowledge on the Internet: the Principia Cybernetica Web", [submitted]
8. Heylighen F. & Joslyn C. (1993): "Electronic Networking for Philosophical Development in the Principia Cybernetica Project", Informatica, Vol. 17, No. 3 p. 285-293.
9. Joslyn C., Heylighen F. & Turchin V. (1993): "Synopsys of the Principia Cybernetica Project", in: Proc. 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Association Internationale de Cybernetique, Namur), p. 509.
10. Joslyn C. (1991): "Tools for the Development of Consensually-Based Philosophical Systems: a feasibility study for the Principia Cybernetica Project" (Principia Cybernetica Technical Report)
11. Joslyn, C.: (1991) "Control Theory and Cybernetic Ontology", (Principia Cybernetica Technical Report, long version of the paper on p. 24 of the Workbook).
12. Lichtenstein B. (1991): "A difference that makes a differance: cybernetic inquiry and post-modern philosophy", in: The Cybernetics of Complex Systems, F. Geyer (ed.), (Intersystems, Salinas, California), p. 11-20.
13. Moritz E. (1991) "On the Road to Cybernetic Immortality: A Report on the First Principia Cybernetica Workshop", Journal of Ideas, 2, #2/3.
14. Turchin V. (1990): "Cybernetics and Philosophy", in: The Cybernetics of Complex Systems, F. Geyer (ed.), (Intersystems, Salinas, California), p. 61-74.
15. Turchin V. (1993): "On Cybernetic Epistemology", Systems Research 10:1, p. 3-28.
16. Turchin V. (1993): "The Cybernetic Ontology of Actions", Kybernetes 22:2, p. 10-30.
17. Turchin V. and Joslyn C.: (1990) "The Cybernetic Manifesto", Kybernetes 19:2-3, p. 63-65.
18. In addition to those, the following papers, presented at a Symposium on the Principia Cybernetica Project, have been published in the Proceedings of the 13th Int. Congress of Cybernetics (Int. Association of Cybernetics, Namur, 1993):
    • Introduction (Heylighen F. ), p. 507.
    • Jdanko A.V.: On Fundamental Problems of the Principia Cybernetica Project, p. 514.
    • Umerez J., Etxeberria A. & Moreno A. : Emergence and Functionality, p. 519.
    • Glück R.: The Requirement of Identical Variety, p. 524.
    • Elohim J.L. : Automation: a conscious human tool to rationally accomplish human aims in order to purposefully push ahead human evolution, p. 534.
    • Carvallo M.E.: Some Alternatives to the Representational Mind, p. 539.
    • Maddock J. W. : Modeling Human Relationships via Dialectical Ecology, p. 544
    • Conclusion (Heylighen F.), p.549.

Books

1. Heylighen F. (ed.) (1991): Workbook of the 1st Principia Cybernetica Workshop (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels-New York).

   This booklet (70 pages) contains short articles and abstracts presented at the Workshop in Brussels. It still provides the most complete printed overview of PCP related work. Paper copies are available from F. Heylighen.

2. Heylighen F., Joslyn C. & Turchin V. (eds.) (1995) : The Quantum of Evolution. Toward a Theory of Metasystem Transitions (in press).

   This volume is an edited collection of papers by invited authors on the Theory of Metasystem Transitions. It will appear as a special issue of "World Futures: the Journal of General Evolution", published by Gordon and Breach, New York.

3. A second, more long-term project is to synthesize the different ideas that were developed separately, in the form of a real "Principia Cybernetica" monograph, authored by the PCP editorial board, and similar to the set of linked nodes existing on the PCP-Web.

   Finally, many of the ideas underlying PCP can be found in two books written well before PCP was founded:

4. Turchin V. (1977): The Phenomenon of Science. A cybernetic approach to human evolution, (Columbia University Press, New York).

   Cybernetic theory of universal evolution, from unicellular organisms to culture and society, based on the concept of the Metasystem Transition.

5. Turchin V. (1981) The Inertia of Fear and the Scientific Worldview, (Columbia University Press, New York).

   Interpretation of (Soviet) totalitarianism from the perspective of cybernetic social theory.

Child Nodes:

• Special Issue on "The Quantum of Evolution"