Principia Cybernetica Project

Summary

The project history attributes the early project to Turchin and Joslyn and reports Heylighen joining the editorial board in 1990. Its overview describes a board, contributors, publications, meetings, and electronic lists. These are dated project self-reports.

Implications for practice

The project is an organisation and philosophical undertaking; its web is a medium and corpus, not the whole undertaking.

Key distinctions

• The project is an organisation and philosophical undertaking; its web is a medium and corpus, not the whole undertaking.

Historical development

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Ideas it depends on

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Further developments

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Connections to practice

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Common confusions

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Further checks

• Human editorial acceptance remains pending.

Recorded connections

Check the wording, direction, scope, sources, and status of a connection before relying on it.

• Principia Cybernetica Project developed or extended Metasystem transition

  Status: accepted · Relation: developed or extended

  First-pass project-authored sources; broader historical corroboration remains open.

  Locator: Principia Cybernetica first-pass public source set

  • Metasystem Transition Theory (research pass needs editor)
  • The Cybernetic Manifesto (research pass needs editor)

• Cliff Joslyn developed or extended Principia Cybernetica Project

  Status: accepted · Relation: developed or extended

  First-pass project-authored sources; broader historical corroboration remains open.

  Locator: Principia Cybernetica first-pass public source set

  • The Cybernetic Manifesto (research pass needs editor)
  • Metasystem Transition Theory (research pass needs editor)

• Francis Heylighen developed or extended Principia Cybernetica Project

  Status: accepted · Relation: developed or extended

  First-pass project-authored sources; broader historical corroboration remains open.

  Locator: Principia Cybernetica first-pass public source set

  • Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (research pass needs editor)
  • The Cybernetic Manifesto (research pass needs editor)

• Valentin Turchin developed or extended Principia Cybernetica Project

  Status: accepted · Relation: developed or extended

  First-pass project-authored sources; broader historical corroboration remains open.

  Locator: Principia Cybernetica first-pass public source set

  • The Cybernetic Manifesto (research pass needs editor)
  • Metasystem Transition Theory (research pass needs editor)

• Principia Cybernetica Project developed or extended Principia Cybernetica Web

  Status: accepted · Relation: developed or extended

  First-pass project-authored sources; broader historical corroboration remains open.

  Locator: Principia Cybernetica first-pass public source set

  • Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (research pass needs editor)
  • About the Principia Cybernetica Server (research pass needs editor)

• Principia Cybernetica Project self identifies with Evolutionary cybernetics

  Status: accepted · Relation: self identifies with

  First-pass project-authored sources; broader historical corroboration remains open.

  Locator: Principia Cybernetica first-pass public source set

  • Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (research pass needs editor)
  • The Cybernetic Manifesto (research pass needs editor)

• Cliff Joslyn was a member of Principia Cybernetica Project

  Status: accepted · Relation: member of

  First-pass project-authored sources; broader historical corroboration remains open.

  Locator: Principia Cybernetica first-pass public source set

  • The Cybernetic Manifesto (research pass needs editor)
  • Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (research pass needs editor)

• Francis Heylighen was a member of Principia Cybernetica Project

  Status: accepted · Relation: member of

  First-pass project-authored sources; broader historical corroboration remains open.

  Locator: Principia Cybernetica first-pass public source set

  • The Cybernetic Manifesto (research pass needs editor)
  • Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (research pass needs editor)

• Valentin Turchin was a member of Principia Cybernetica Project

  Status: accepted · Relation: member of

  First-pass project-authored sources; broader historical corroboration remains open.

  Locator: Principia Cybernetica first-pass public source set

  • The Cybernetic Manifesto (research pass needs editor)
  • Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (research pass needs editor)

• Evolutionary cybernetics is espoused by Principia Cybernetica Project

  Status: accepted · Relation: espouses epistemology

  The project calls its specific approach evolutionary cybernetics.

  No statement-level locator recorded.

  • Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (checked primary register)

• Metasystem Transition Theory was developed within Principia Cybernetica Project

  Status: accepted · Relation: part of

  The official project page presents MSTT as a Principia Cybernetica programme.

  No statement-level locator recorded.

  • Metasystem Transition Theory (research pass needs editor)

Sources and passage locators

• Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (research pass needs editor)
• The Cybernetic Manifesto (research pass needs editor)
• Metasystem Transition Theory (research pass needs editor)
• History of the Principia Cybernetica Project (research pass needs editor)
• Overview of Principia Cybernetica (research pass needs editor)
• Collaborators Needed (research pass needs editor)
• About the Principia Cybernetica Server (research pass needs editor)
• Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (checked primary register)

• History of the Principia Cybernetica Project: Origin of the Project; (Electronic) Publications; footer · research pass needs editor
• Overview of Principia Cybernetica: Tools; Structure; Practical organization; footer · research pass needs editor
• Collaborators Needed: Opening paragraphs; footer · research pass needs editor

Cite this entry

Taylor, B. P. (2026). Principia Cybernetica Project. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.41. https://transduction.systems/entries/organisation_principia_cybernetica_project/

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