The most important result of the meeting was a new consensual definition of
the central concept of "control" together with a number of related
concepts. A draft node has already been put on the Web (see below), but it
will be elaborated with many more details and related nodes in the coming
two months.
The following nodes in Principia Cybernetica Web have undergone substantive
editing, or have been newly added during the months of May and June, 1996.
(all documents are available via http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/recent.html)
* Jun 27, 1996: Links on Cybernetics and Systems (many new links added)
* Jun 25, 1996: Bibliography on Principia Cybernetica (several recent
publications added)
* Jun 21, 1996: Cybernetics and Systems Societies (ICS added)
* Jun 21, 1996: Control (new!)
* May 24, 1996: Welcome to the Principia Cybernetica Web (added Random Link
function)
* May 23, 1996: Links on Cognitive Science and AI (Spencer Brown &
autopoiesis links added)
* May 23, 1996: Francis Heylighen: Evolution of Memes on the Network
(invited paper for the Ars Electronica Symposium, Memesis - the Future of
Evolution) (new!)
* May 14, 1996: About Donald T. Campbell (obituary added after Campbell's
recent death)
* May 13, 1996: From Society to Superorganism / Global Brain (new!)
* May 13, 1996: Cybernetics and Systems Societies (Swiss Systems Society added)
* May 7, 1996: Principia Cybernetica Meetings (photo of workshop added)
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The following topics were announced or discussed on the PRNCYB-L mailing
list (see http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/mail.html) during the months of May and
June. The full text of all original messages and replies is available via
the PRNCYB-L archive: http://bruce.edmonds.name/PRNCYB-L/thread.html
* Master thesis on collective intelligence within the web - Francis Heylighen
* PRNCYB-L and Binghamton computing - Cliff Joslyn
* Gordon Pask - Luis Rocha
* Stances - Bruce Edmonds
* memetics/principa cybernetics - Mark Mills
* Experimental North American mirror for PCP-Web - Francis Heylighen
* path dependence/thermo/determinism - MikeStTA@AOL.COM
* In Memoriam: Donald T. Campbell - Francis Heylighen
* Hierarchies and the infinite monkeys - John Earls
* Hierarchies, sanctity and PCP access - J. Earls
* path dependence - Jeff Prideaux
It may be of interest to note that a new mailing list, j-memetics, has been
created, which is to some degree a "spin-off" of PRNCYB-L. Its aim is to
discuss the creation of a peer-reviewed, electronic journal devoted to
memetics or "evolutionary models of information transmission". For more
info, contact hanss@sepa.tudelft.nl (Hans-Cees Speel) or
b.edmonds@mmu.ac.uk (Bruce Edmonds).
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Dr. Francis Heylighen, Systems Researcher fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be
PESP, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel +32-2-6292525; Fax +32-2-6292489; http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html