[1]Principia Cybernetica Web

                                Tree of FTP directories

   The Computing Center of the [2]Free University of Brussels (VUB) has 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 [3]PCP Web, but most of the longer texts (papers,
   discussions, proceedings, ...) have not yet been reconstructed as hypertext, and
   are only available here.

[externallink.GIF] [4]Root PCP directory

     * [externallink.GIF] [5]Misc.Info : contains diverse information (reports,
       bibliography, ...) on activities related to PCP, such as WWW.
     * [externallink.GIF] [6]News: contains newsletters and reports on PCP
       activities.
     * [externallink.GIF] [7]Nodes: contains preliminary versions of hypertext nodes
       about basic systems concepts (not in WWW format).
     * [externallink.GIF] [8]Notes_on_PCP.txt: gives an overview of PCP similar to
       [9]the one proposed in the Web.
     * [externallink.GIF] [10]PCP-Web: provides a mirror of the Web on ftp.
     * [externallink.GIF] [11]PRNCYB-L: contains discussions and lists of members
       from the [12]PRNCYB-L mailing list.
     * [externallink.GIF] [13]Papers_Heylighen: contains PCP-related papers by
       PCP-editor Francis Heylighen.
     * [externallink.GIF] [14]Papers_Joslyn: contains PCP-related papers by
       PCP-editor Cliff Joslyn.
     * [externallink.GIF] [15]Papers_Others: contains PCP-related papers by other
       contributors.
     * [externallink.GIF] [16]Papers_Turchin: contains PCP-related papers by
       PCP-editor Valentin Turchin.
     * [externallink.GIF] [17]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).
     * [externallink.GIF] [18]Texts_General: contains introductory or overview
       papers by the editors collectively, and collected contributions of others.
     * [19]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
     * [externallink.GIF] [20]_README.txt: overview of how to use the FTP server.

   .

[externallink.GIF] [21]News

     * [externallink.GIF] [22]CFP-EMCSR'94.txt
     * [externallink.GIF] [23]Newsletter 0
     * [externallink.GIF] [24]Newsletter 1
     * [externallink.GIF] [25]Report-EMCSR'92
     * [externallink.GIF] [26]Report: Symposium Namur

[externallink.GIF] [27]Papers_Heylighen

     * [externallink.GIF] [28]Causality as Distinction Conservation : a theory of
       predictability, reversibility and time order
     * [externallink.GIF] [29]Cognitive Levels of Evolution: pre-rational to
       meta-rational
     * [externallink.GIF] [30]A Cognitive-Systemic Reconstruction of Maslow's Theory
       of Self-Actualization
     * [externallink.GIF] [31]Fitness as Default: the evolutionary basis of
       cognitive complexity reduction
     * [externallink.GIF] [32]Formality of Languagei: definition and measurement;
       II: linguistic, situational and personality variable correlated with
       formality>
     * [externallink.GIF] [33]Design of a Hypermedia Interface Translating between
       Associative and Formal Representations
     * [externallink.GIF] [34]Selection Criteria for the Evolution of Knowledge
     * [externallink.GIF] [35]Making Thoughts Explicit: advantages and drawbacks of
       formal expression
     * [externallink.GIF] [36]Evolution, Selfishness and Cooperation; Selfish Memes
       and the Evolution of Cooperation
     * [externallink.GIF] [37]Modelling Emergence
     * [externallink.GIF] [38]Classical and Non-classical Representations in Physics
       I
     * [externallink.GIF] [39]Classical and Non-classical Representations in Physics
       II: quantum mechanics
     * [externallink.GIF] [40]Self-Organization, Emergence and the Architecture of
       Complexity
     * [externallink.GIF] [41]Structuring Knowledge in a Network of Concepts
     * [externallink.GIF] [42]Principles of Systems and Cybernetics: an evolutionary
       perspective
     * [externallink.GIF] [43]Unifying Cybernetics: intro to PCP
     * [externallink.GIF] [44]List of Publications F. Heylighen

[externallink.GIF] [45]Papers_Joslyn

   (for a more complete list, see [externallink.GIF] [46]Joslyn's homepage )
     * [externallink.GIF] [47]Control Theory and Cybernetic Ontology(tex)
     * [externallink.GIF] [48]Semantics of Entropy(tex)
     * [externallink.GIF] [49]Feasibility_Study_PCP.txt
     * [externallink.GIF] [50]Software for Philosophy

[externallink.GIF] [51]Papers_Others

     * [externallink.GIF] [52]Glueck: the requirement of Identical Variety
     * [externallink.GIF] [53]Maddock: Dialectical Ecology
     * [externallink.GIF] [54]Umerez, Moreno: Emergence and Functionality

[externallink.GIF] [55]Papers by V. Turchin

     * [externallink.GIF] [56]The Ultimate Reality of Physics: an essay in
       metaphysics (tex)
     * [externallink.GIF] [57]Cybernetic Epistemology.tex
     * [externallink.GIF] [58]Cybernetic Ontology.tex
     * [externallink.GIF] [59]Cybernetics and Philosophy(tex)
     * [externallink.GIF] [60]Dialog on Metasystem Transitions
     * [externallink.GIF] [61]Science and Values

[externallink.GIF] [62]PRNCYB-L discussions

     * [externallink.GIF] [63]aging & Evolution
     * [externallink.GIF] [64]Causality & Invariance
     * [externallink.GIF] [65]Default Reasoning & Control
     * [externallink.GIF] [66]Entropy & Evolution
     * [externallink.GIF] [67]Formal expressions
     * [externallink.GIF] [68]Information & Meaning
     * [externallink.GIF] [69]Memes & Cooperation
     * [externallink.GIF] [70]Memes in Cyberspace
     * [externallink.GIF] [71]Memetic fitness criteria
     * [externallink.GIF] [72]PRNCYB-member
     * [externallink.GIF] [73]Stability & Change
     * [externallink.GIF] [74]Autopoiesis & Distributed (superposition)
       Representations
     * [externallink.GIF] [75]Definition of Control according to Powers and Boyd
     * [externallink.GIF] [76]Life, Symbols (coding) & Control
     * [externallink.GIF] [77]Memetics & Dialectics
     * [externallink.GIF] [78]Power, knowledge & perspectivism
     * [externallink.GIF] [79]Requisite Variety, Complexity & the edge of Chaos

[externallink.GIF] [80]Texts_General

     * [externallink.GIF] [81]Abstracts Symposium New York (1989)
     * [externallink.GIF] [82]Abstracts Symposium Namur (1992)
     * Turchin & Joslyn: [externallink.GIF] [83]The Cybernetic Manifesto
     * [externallink.GIF] [84]Definition of Systems Theory
     * [externallink.GIF] [85]Joslyn, Heylighen & Turchin: Long Introduction to the
       Principia Cybernetica Project.tex
     * [externallink.GIF] [86]Heylighen & Bollen: Development and Publication of
       Systems Knowledge on the Internet: the Principia Cybernetica Web
     * [externallink.GIF] [87]PCP bibliography
     * Heylighen, Joslyn & Turchin: [externallink.GIF] [88]Short Introduction to PCP
     * Joslyn, Heylighen & Turchin: [externallink.GIF] [89]Synopsis of PCP
     * Heylighen (ed.):[90]Workbook PCP Workshop (1990)

[91]"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"(1995 or
   1996): "The Quantum of Evolution: Toward a theory of metasystem transitions",
   edited by F. Heylighen, C. Joslyn and V. Turchin.
     * [externallink.GIF] [92]Preface
     * [externallink.GIF] [93]Inititally submitted abstracts of papers
     * Charles François: [externallink.GIF] [94]An Integrative View of Meta System
       Transition
     * R. Glueck & A. Klimov: [externallink.GIF] [95]Metasystem Transitions in
       Computer Science and Mathematics (rtf format)
     * F. Heylighen: [externallink.GIF] [96](Meta)systems as Constraints on
       Variation: a classification and natural history of MST's
     * F. Heylighen & Donald T. Campbell: [externallink.GIF] [97]Selection of
       Organization at the Social Level: obstacles and facilitators of MST's
     * C. Joslyn: [externallink.GIF] [98]Semantic Control Systems (tex format)
     * C. Joslyn: [externallink.GIF] [99]Semantic Control Systems (tty (text like)
       format)
     * E. Moritz: [externallink.GIF] [100]Metasystems, Memes and Cybernetic
       Immortality
     * William T. Powers: [externallink.GIF] [101]The origins of purpose: the first
       metasystem transitions
     * V. Turchin: [102]A Dialogue on Metasystem Transition (part 1) (tex format)
     * V. Turchin: [externallink.GIF] [103]A Dialogue on Metasystem Transition (part
       2) (tex format)
     * Jon Umerez & Alvaro Moreno: [externallink.GIF] [104]Origin of Life as the
       First Mst.- Control Hierarchies and Interlevel Relation
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