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The Need for Principia Cybernetica
Principia Cybernetica's aim can be defined as: integrating the knowledge available in the domain of cybernetics and systems science with the help of cybernetic methods, as a first step towards integrating the whole of human knowledge available in the different disciplines. This enterprise can be motivated by the following observations:
- knowledge at large is fragmented and in dire need of unification
- cybernetics and systems science seems at present to be the only approach capable of bringing this kind of integration
- cybernetics and systems science itself is in dire need of unification
- integrating cybernetics requires an approach similar to what Principia Mathematica did for mathematics
- however, as cybernetics is more complex, fuzzy and variable than mathematics, more powerful collaborative methods are needed to unify cybernetic knowledge
- therefore, we need to formulate a number of more specific goals for the collaborative development of Principia Cybernetica
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Author
F. Heylighen, C. Joslyn,
Date
Jun 23, 1994 (modified)
Aug 1993 (created)
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