Reconstructing Cybernetics

Legacy Repository Epistemological Directory on Cybernetics and Systems.

Lab-related publications

2025

A Brief History of Cybernetic Imperatives and Behavior. OSF Preprints, doi:10.31234/osf.io/mnhux.

A "Good" Regulator May Provide a World Model for Intelligent Systems. arXiv, 2506.23032.

2018

Origins of the Embryo: Self-organization through cybernetic regulation. Biosystems, 173, 73-82.

2015

The Foundations of Control and Cognition: The Every Good Regulator Theorem. ResearchGate, doi:10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.1559095.

2014

Modeling Cellular Information Processing Using a Dynamical Approximation of Cellular mRNA. bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/006775.

Meeting Sessions (YouTube)

Human Use of Human Beings (Norbert Wiener): April 2023 - October 2023

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Cybernetics Reading Group (Assorted Papers): January 2024 - January 2025

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Early version of "A Good Regulator May Provide a World Model for Intelligent Systems": September 2025

1, 2.

Active Inference Institute Symposia: November 2024

Purposefully Nonstandard Cybernetics: an alternative to purpose-driven control

Relevant SMN Features

Proto-complexity and the Cybernetics Conceptual Landscape

Cybernetics, Proto-Complexity Theory, and Intellectual Flatlands

Braitenberg Vehicles: biocybernetic models using memristive circuits

Bradly Alicea discusses Jesse Parent's post on Rosenbleuth et.al

Norbert Wiener's legacy in AI and Synchronized Oscillators