Welcome to 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.

Main subjects

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 an electronic library with free books, a web dictionary, related websites, 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 over 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

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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
There is no meaning..., Comment by No such thing

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