Principia
Cybernetica Web
Principia Cybernetica tries to tackle
age-old philosophical questions with the help of the
most recent cybernetic theories and technologies.
This is the website of the Principia
Cybernetica Project (PCP), an international organization .
The Project aims to develop a complete philosophy or "world-view",
based on the principles of evolutionary cybernetics ,
and supported by collaborative computer technologies. To get
started, there is an introduction with background
and motivation, and an overview , summarizing
the project as a whole.
Theory our theoretical results, including epistemology , metaphysics , ethics , concepts , principles , memetics , and the
history
and future
of evolution .
Organization details the people , conferences , publications ,
ways of participating ,
newsletter and
the mailing
lists part of PCP.
R&D our algorithms, experiments and applications to develop
distributed, self-organizing, knowledge networks, inspired
by the "Global
Brain " metaphor
Reference background material collected by us, including related websites ,
an electronic
library with free books, a web dictionary ,
and info about cybernetics and systems
theory , such as bibliographies, associations ,
and journals .
Navigation tools to help you to quickly find your way around our
two thousand pages, such as the Recent Changes ,
Search , Table of Contents ,
and Index ,
plus general information about this website
and how to use it.
Other Info
this server also hosts some pages that are
not part of PCP: the Association for the Foundations
of Science, Language and Cognition (AFOS) , and Belgium: Overview
Abstract Urbanism(tm) , Comment by Tore Wallin Comment about the project , Comment by Gustavo Seijo
Where are we ? , Correction by Michael Grudzinski My book about law , systems and cibernetics, Comment
by ernesto grun The First Book of System Design , Illustration by Barry
Kort Challenge the Philosophy , Comment by Anne Johnson
Congratulations , Comment by Irene Paritsis Is the project still alive? , Comment by Alex Kouznetsov
great site , but, Comment by eric hinton Evolution still speed-up , Comment by Mike Soukharev
A few questions... , Comment by Le Roux Ronan The Random Feature , Comment by Ben Swihart Jaron Lanier: The ideology of cybernetic totalist intellectuals ,
Comment by Miguel Marcos GB Neuron Degradation , Comment by WILLIAM MEYER Discovery of the Universal Law , Comment by valko yotov
Notes on Infinity , Comment by Erdman West De evolutie van de democratie , Illustration by Wiebe
de Jager
