TY - GEN ID - cogprints6942 UR - http://cogprints.org/6942/ A1 - Havel, Ivan M. Y1 - 2008/03// N2 - This informal essay, written on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Wienerian cybernetics, presents a series of themes and ideas that has emerged during last several decades and which have direct or indirect relationships to the principal concepts of cybernetics. Moreover, they share with original cybernetics the same transdisciplinary character. PB - Institute of Information Theory and Automation of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. KW - cybernetics KW - general systems KW - transdisciplinarity KW - feedback KW - self-reference KW - collective phenomena KW - scales KW - hierarchies KW - emergence KW - downward causation KW - connectnism KW - chaos KW - autopoiesis KW - domains of discourse KW - causal domains KW - metaphors TI - Cybernetics Still Alive SP - 314 AV - public EP - 327 ER -