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Principia Cybernetica is an international cooperation of scientists in the field of cybernetics and systems science, especially known for their website, Principia Cybernetica. They have dedicated their organization to what they call "a computer-supported evolutionary-systemic philosophy, in the context of the transdisciplinary academic fields of Systems Science and Cybernetics".


Organisation

Principia Cybernetica was initiated in 1989 in the USA by
Cliff Joslyn Cliff Joslyn (born 1963) is an American mathematician, cognitive scientist, and cybernetician. He is currently the Chief Knowledge Scientist and Team Lead for Mathematics of Data Science at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Seattle, Was ...
and Valentin Turchin, and a year later broadened to Europe with
Francis Heylighen Francis Paul Heylighen (born 27 September 1960) is a Belgian cyberneticist investigating the emergence and evolution of intelligent organization. He presently works as a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (the Dutch-speaking Fre ...
from Belgium joining their cooperation. Major activities of the Principia Cybernetica Project are: * Principia Cybernetica Web: an online encyclopedia * Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems; an online dictionary * Newsletter Principia Cybernetica News * Conferences and traditional publications The organization is associated with: *
American Society for Cybernetics The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) is an American non-profit scholastic organization for the advancement of cybernetics as a science , a discipline, a meta-discipline and the promotion of cybernetics as basis for an interdisciplinary disc ...
. * Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group: a transdisciplinary research group at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, founded in 2004 and directed by
Francis Heylighen Francis Paul Heylighen (born 27 September 1960) is a Belgian cyberneticist investigating the emergence and evolution of intelligent organization. He presently works as a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (the Dutch-speaking Fre ...
. * Journal of
Memetics Memetics is a study of information and culture. While memetics originated as an analogy with Darwinian evolution, digital communication, media, and sociology scholars have also adopted the term "memetics" to describe an established empirical stud ...
-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission (JoM-EMIT) is an international peer-refereed scientific journal * Global Brain Group: for discussion about the emergence of a global brain.


Principia Cybernetica Web

The Principia Cybernetica Web,Principia Cybernetica Web
/ref> which went online in 1993, is one of the first complex webs in the world. It is still viewed as one of the most important sites on cybernetics,
systems theory Systems theory is the interdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or human-made. Every system has causal boundaries, is influenced by its context, defined by its structu ...
,
complexity Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to nonlinearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence. The term is generally used to c ...
, and related approaches.


Workshops and symposia

Especially in the 1990s the Principia Cybernetica has organized a series of workshops and international symposia on
cybernetic Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in regulatory and purposive systems. Cybernetics is named after an example of circular causal feedback, that of steering a ship, where the helmsperson ma ...
themes.Principia Cybernetica Meetings
2001, retrieved October 2007. On the 1st Principia Cybernetica Workshop in June 1991 in
Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
many
cyberneticist A cyberneticist or a cybernetician is a person who practices cybernetics. Heinz von Foerster once told Stuart Umpleby that Norbert Wiener preferred the term "cybernetician" rather than "cyberneticist", perhaps because Wiener was a mathematicia ...
s attended like Harry Bronitz, Gordon Pask, J.L. Elohim, Robert Glueck, Ranulph Glanville, Annemie Van Kerkhoven, Don McNeil, Elan Moritz, Cliff Joslyn, A. Comhaire and Valentin Turchin.


See also

*
W. Ross Ashby W. Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was not ...
*
Complex adaptive system A complex adaptive system is a system that is '' complex'' in that it is a dynamic network of interactions, but the behavior of the ensemble may not be predictable according to the behavior of the components. It is '' adaptive'' in that the indi ...
*
Evolutionary epistemology Evolutionary epistemology refers to three distinct topics: (1) the biological evolution of cognitive mechanisms in animals and humans, (2) a theory that knowledge itself evolves by natural selection, and (3) the study of the historical discovery ...
* Global brain *
Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions Manifest may refer to: Computing * Manifest file, a metadata file that enumerates files in a program or package * Manifest (CLI), a metadata text file for CLI assemblies Events * Manifest (convention), a defunct anime festival in Melbourne, Aus ...
* Red Queen * Stuart Umpleby *
Emergence In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors that emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. Emergen ...


References

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Further reading

* Woody Evans (2003),
A Review of the Principia Cybernetica Web
', Mississippi Libraries, 67(1), p.16, Spring 2003. * Ben Goertzel (2000),
The Principia Cybernetica Project: Placing the Web at the Center of Man’s Quest for Knowledge
', September 2000. * Koen Van Damme (2007),

'. *
Francis Heylighen Francis Paul Heylighen (born 27 September 1960) is a Belgian cyberneticist investigating the emergence and evolution of intelligent organization. He presently works as a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (the Dutch-speaking Fre ...
(2000).
Foundations and Methodology for an Evolutionary World View: A Review of the Principia Cybernetica Project"
in: ''Foundations of Science'', 5(4), p.457-490. *
Francis Heylighen Francis Paul Heylighen (born 27 September 1960) is a Belgian cyberneticist investigating the emergence and evolution of intelligent organization. He presently works as a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (the Dutch-speaking Fre ...
, C. Joslyn & Valentin Turchin (1991). " tp://ftp.vub.ac.be/pub/projects/Principia_Cybernetica/Texts_General/Short_Intro.txt A Short Introduction to the Principia Cybernetica Project. in: ''Journal of Ideas'', 2(1), p.26-29. * C. Joslyn, Francis Heylighen & V. Turchin (1993). "Synopsys of the Principia Cybernetica Project". in: ''Proc. 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics'', p. 509-513.


External links

* Principia Cybernetic
Home page
* Principia Cybernetic

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