Organisation
Principia Cybernetica was initiated in 1989 in the USA by Cliff Joslyn and Valentin Turchin, and a year later broadened to Europe with Francis Heylighen from Belgium joining their cooperation.
Major activities of the Principia Cybernetica Project are:
- Principia Cybernetica Web: an online encyclopedia
- Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems; an online dictionary
- Newsletter Principia Cybernetica News
- Conferences and traditional publications
The organization is associated with:
- American Society for Cybernetics.
- Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group: a transdisciplinary research group at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, founded in 2004 and directed by Francis Heylighen.
- Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission (JoM-EMIT) is an international peer-refereed scientific journal
- Global Brain Group: for discussion about the emergence of a global brain.
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