Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Complexity

Some Basics

• What are Cybernetics and Systems Science? (Francis Heylighen)
• What is Systems Theory? (Francis Heylighen)
• What is Complexity? (Francis Heylighen)
• CYBERNETICS: A Definition (Paul Pangaro)
• Theory of Self-Organizing Systems (Jay Lemke)
• Introduction to Complex Systems (David Kirshbaum)

Resources

• Gregory Bateson
• Cybernetics & Human Knowing:A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics & Cyber-Semiotics
• Yogesh Malhotra Complex Systems Research page.
• Principia Cybernetica Web
• Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life (Louis Rocha) (related links) s (Hudson Bancroft)
• Good$hare International (Ted Lumley)
• Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence
• Complexity Theory Websites American Educational Research Association Chaos and Complexity SIG
• Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences
• Emergence (Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.)
• Complexity (John Wiley & Sons)

Readings

• Bollen (1995) Adaptive Hypertext Networks
• Francis Heylighen
  • Principia Cybernetica
  • Memetics (1994)
• Kevin Kelly
  • Kelly interview (F. Scott Taylor, 1995)
  • The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed (Wall St. Journal, Jan 4, 2000)
• Lemke (2002) Complex Systems and Educational Change
• Lumley and Dodds-Taljaard (1998) Geometry and Culture: 'Burying The Hatchet'
• London Interview with Margaret Wheatly
• Warren McCulloch
• Nadin (1991) Mind - Anticipation and Chaos
• Pangaro (2001) The Cybernetics of HCI: A Pragmatic Approach
• Gordon Pask
  • Pask profile (Luis Rocha)
  • Pask profile (Paul Pangaro)
  • Pask obit (Bernard Scott)
  • Pask profile (Greg Kearsley)
  • Pask as Dramaturg (Paul Pangaro, 1993)
  • Pask's Words and What We Want From Them (Paul Pangaro, 1994)
  • Conversation Theory (Martin Ryder, 1995)
• Henry and Rocha (1996) Language Theory: Consensual Selection of Dynamics
• Louis Rocha
  • (1996) Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life: Lecture Notes
  • Eigenbehavior and Symbols
  • Selected Self-Organization From Eigenbehavior to Descriptions
• Sharov Topics in Bio-semiotics.
• John Warfield
  • Warfield home page
  • Interactive Management
    • summary (by Antonia Gill)
  • Warfield (1996) The Wandwaver Solution
  • G. S. Chandy One Page Management System

Complexity Home Pages

• Francis Heylighen
  • At Home in the Universe
  • 3rd Culture
• Kent Palmer
• Heinz Georg Schuster
• Susan Stepney's complexity page.
• Randal Whitaker
• Design for Emergence (Mike McMaster)