[IMAGE] PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA WEB (C) _________________________________________________________________ Author: F. Heylighen, Date: Jun 29, 1994 (modified); Aug 1993 (created) Parent Node(s): * Principia Cybernetica Organization TREE OF FTP DIRECTORIES [Node to be completed] The Computing Center of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) has recently put up an anonymous FTP-file server for PCP. The server is freely available for everybody on the Internet, including those who can't use WWW as yet. Most of the files available on this server are in ASCII format, and should be retrieved as text. The .txt file suffix denotes pure text files, that can be read as such. The .tex suffix denotes ASCII files formatted in LaTeX which should ideally be processed by a LaTeX editor in order to reconstruct formats, formulas and figures, but where the text is mostly readable as such. The following is an overview of the PCP-ftp directories, first the root directory, followed by a list of the contents of the most important subdirectories. Much of the introductory material here is also available in a more handy format (HTML) on the PCP Web, but most of the longer texts (papers, discussions, proceedings, ...) have not yet been reconstructed as hypertext, and are only available here. Root PCP directory * Misc.Info : contains diverse information (reports, bibliography, ...) on activities related to PCP, such as WWW. * News: contains newsletters and reports on PCP activities. * Nodes: contains preliminary versions of hypertext nodes about basic systems concepts (not in WWW format). * Notes_on_PCP.txt: gives an overview of PCP similar to the one proposed in the Web. * PCP-Web: provides a mirror of the Web on ftp. * PRNCYB-L: contains discussions and lists of members from the PRNCYB-L mailing list. * Papers_Heylighen: contains PCP-related papers by PCP-editor Francis Heylighen. * Papers_Joslyn: contains PCP-related papers by PCP-editor Cliff Joslyn. * Papers_Others: contains PCP-related papers by other contributors. * Papers_Turchin: contains PCP-related papers by PCP-editor Valentin Turchin. * Software: contains some hypertext software (including the "HyperVision" application, a simple hypertext (not WWW) viewer and editor for MS-DOS, developed by the Walden programmers group). * Texts_General: contains introductory or overview papers by the editors collectively, and collected contributions of others. * WF-issue: contains draft papers contributed by the editors and others for a special issue of "World Futures: the journal of general evolution" devoted to the theory of Metasystem Transitions, first proposed by V. Turchin, which forms the core of the PCP philosophy * _README.txt: overview of how to use the FTP server. . NEWS * CFP-EMCSR'94.txt * Newsletter 0 * Newsletter 1 * Report-EMCSR'92 * Report: Symposium Namur PAPERS_HEYLIGHEN * Causality as Distinction Conservation : a theory of predictability, reversibility and time order * Cognitive Levels of Evolution: pre-rational to meta-rational * A Cognitive-Systemic Reconstruction of Maslow's Theory of Self-Actualization * Fitness as Default: the evolutionary basis of cognitive complexity reduction * Formality of Languagei: definition and measurement; II: linguistic, situational and personality variable correlated with formality> * Design of a Hypermedia Interface Translating between Associative and Formal Representations * Selection Criteria for the Evolution of Knowledge * Making Thoughts Explicit: advantages and drawbacks of formal expression * Evolution, Selfishness and Cooperation; Selfish Memes and the Evolution of Cooperation * Modelling Emergence * Classical and Non-classical Representations in Physics I * Classical and Non-classical Representations in Physics II: quantum mechanics * Self-Organization, Emergence and the Architecture of Complexity * Structuring Knowledge in a Network of Concepts * Principles of Systems and Cybernetics: an evolutionary perspective * Unifying Cybernetics: intro to PCP * List of Publications F. Heylighen PAPERS_JOSLYN * Control Theory and Cybernetic Ontology(tex) * Semantics of Entropy(tex) * Feasibility_Study_PCP.txt * Software for Philosophy PAPERS_OTHERS * Glueck: the requirement of Identical Variety * Maddock: Dialectical Ecology * Umerez, Moreno: Emergence and Functionality PAPERS_TURCHIN * Cybernetic Epistemology.tex * Cybernetic Metaphysics.tex(old version of next paper) * Cybernetic Ontology.tex * Cybernetics and Philosophy(tex) * Dialog on Metasystem Transitions * Science and Values PRNCYB-L DISCUSSIONS * Aging & Evolution * Causality & Invariance * Default Reasoning & Control * Entropy & Evolution * Formal expressions * Information & Meaning * Memes & Cooperation * Memes in Cyberspace * Memetic fitness criteria * PRNCYB-member * Stability & Change TEXTS_GENERAL * Abstracts Symposium New York (1989) * Abstracts Symposium Namur (1992) * Cybernetic_Manifesto.txt * Definition_Systems_Theory.txt * Joslyn, Heylighen & Turchin: Long Introduction to the Principia Cyberentica Project.tex * PCP_bibliography.txt * Short_Intro.txt * Synopsis_PCP.txt * Workbook PCP Workshop (1990) "WORLD FUTURES" SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE THEORY OF METASYSTEM TRANSITIONS This FTP directory contains draft papers contributed by the editors and others for a special issue of "World Futures: the journal of general evolution" devoted to the theory of Metasystem Transitions * Abstracts WF-issue * Charles FRANCOIS: AN INTEGRATIVE VIEW OF META SYSTEM TRANSITION * R. Glueck & A. Klimov: Metasystem Transitions in Computer Science and Mathematics (rtf format) * F. Heylighen: (Meta)systems as Constraints on Variation * C. Joslyn: Semantic Control Systems (tex format) * C. Joslyn: Semantic Control Systems (tty (text like) format) * E. Moritz: Metasystems, Memes and Cybernetic Immortality * William T. Powers: The origins of purpose: the first metasystem transitions * V. Turchin: A Dialogue on Metasystem Transition (part 1) (tex format) * V. Turchin: A Dialogue on Metasystem Transition (part 2) (tex format) * Jon UMEREZ & Alvaro MORENO: ORIGIN OF LIFE AS THE FIRST MST.- CONTROL HIERARCHIES AND INTERLEVEL RELATION _________________________________________________________________ | Table of Contents | Search | Annotate | Help |