[IMAGE] PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA WEB (C) _________________________________________________________________ Author: F. Heylighen, Date: Sep 12, 1994 (modified); Oct 5, 1993 (created) Parent Node(s): * Welcome to PCP * INTERNET RESOURCES RELATED TO PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA The following resources provide information on cybernetics, systems, self-organization, cognition, philosophy, evolution, and related topics. You can also find new documents yourself by doing a WAIS-style whole Web search on the above keywords with Lycos. (Don't be surprised to find mostly references to Principia Cybernetica itself). Readers are encouraged to add further links to related servers, by making an annotation to this page. Contents * Complex Systems, Self-Organization * Cybernetics and Control * Man-Machine Interaction * AI, Cognitive Science * Memetics * Evolution * Philosophy * Integration of Available Knowledge * Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc * Electronic Networking * Tools for Web-making * Extending the human potential * Various Complex Systems, Self-Organization * Complex Systems Web: a quite elaborate server with Hypermedia papers and lots of pointers to other places (including PCP Web) * Complexity International: refereed electronic journal on Complex Systems Research * Information on Complex Adaptive Systems in different parts of the Internet * sci.systems: newsgroup on systems theory * Artificial Life ftp server * Artificial Life Online service with lots of info (news, bibliogrpahy, journals, ...) * Santa Fe Institute for the Sciences of Complexity (ftp-server) * Nonlinearity and Complexity home page at Democritus University of Thrace * Center for Complex Systems Research * Australian National University Bioinformatics Institute for Systems Research (engineering) at Harvard IIASA: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Gopher server Decision Analysis and Operations Research on the Web Non-linear Science E-print archive with papers and conference announcements on chaos, adaptation, self-organization etc. Cybernetics and Control * Glossary on Cybernetics and Systems Theory from the American Society for Cybernetics * Control System Group-ftp server * Systems and Control Archive * WWW Home page for Systems and Control Engineering * IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society (gopher, empty last time I looked at it) * IEEE Control Systems, Society (gopher) * 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 cyberentics and systems theory * CWRU Autonomous Agents Research Group * MIT Media Lab Autonomous Agents Group 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 * 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) * 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 * Cognitive Science Research Papers from the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex * 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 * Center for the Study of Language and Information in Stanford * Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (all papers freely available over the Internet) Memetics * 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 * alt.memetics: Newsgroup on Memetics and its introductory FAQ and list of memetic resources Evolution * Catalog of Information about Evolution on WWW * Evolutionary/Geological Timeline * T.S. Ray: An evolutionary approach to synthetic biology (paper on artificial life) * 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 (archived here) * newsgroup talk.origins: informal discussions about evolution (and creationism!), has spawned a whole set of FAQs on different arguments of the evolution-creation debate * newsgroup bionet.molbio.evolution on molecular biological methods for studying evolution * Illinois Genetic Algorithms Lab * Interactive genetic art (evolves according to user preferences) * Genetically programmed music * FAQ's on Genetic Algorithms Philosophy * University of Chicago Philosophy Project for the reading and discussion of texts * 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 * Lots of material on Philosophy at Valdosta State University (Gopher) * Directory of Philosophy Related Resources on the Internet * 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 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 * 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) * Hypertext interface into Webster's Dictionary * Hypertext interface into the Hackers' Dictionary * Combined Technical and English Dictionaries at CERN * Extensive Dictionary of Computing terms * 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) * 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 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 Various * an introductory hypertext book on astronomy, cosmology and the origin of the universe * Essay on "Cyberocracy" by D. Ronfeldt * Autologue, a paper about self-organizing discussions on the Internet by Heath Michael Rezabek Annotations: * Extropians..., comment by R. Whitaker _________________________________________________________________ | Table of Contents | Search | Annotate | Help |