"Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic sys…"

"With the growing interest in complex adaptive systems, artificial life, swarms and simulated societies, the concept o…"

"The three basic mechanisms of averaging, feedback and division of labor give us a first idea of a how a CMM [Collecti…"

"Cybernetics as a specific field grew out of a series of interdisciplinary meetings held from 1944 to 1953 that brough…"

"Many of the core ideas of cybernetics have been assimilated by other disciplines, where they continue to influence sc…"

"Science, and physics in particular, has developed out of the Newtonian paradigm of mechanics. In this world view, eve…"

"[S]elf-organization [is] the appearance of structure or pattern without an external agent imposing it."

"W. Ross Ashby is one of the founding fathers of both cybernetics and systems theory. He developed such fundamental id…"

"In a life-long partnership with his wife Jessie, James Grier Miller contributed substantially to the development of a…"

"We have our gurus, we admire them – and with good reason. But they become in the end a source of laziness because we …"