Cybernetics, Systems Theory, and Complexity

Cybernetics, Systems Theory, and Complexity

Martin Ryder
University of Colorado at Denver
School of Education

Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Complexity

related pages: Second-Order Cybernetics memetics Corollary Sources

Some Basics

What are Cybernetics and Systems Science? (Francis Heylighen)
What is Systems Theory? (Francis Heylighen)
What is Complexity? (Francis Heylighen)
Origins of Cybernetics (Stuart Umpleby)
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.
Complexity and Management Mail List archive
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

review (by Richard Thieme)

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

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
Ronald Lemmen Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science
Kent Palmer
Heinz Georg Schuster
Susan Stepney's complexity page.
Randal Whitaker
Design for Emergence (George Pór)

All links verified July 02, 2008.

July 02, 2008