Research output

Research output per year 1982 2021

• 1210 Citations
• 18 h-Index
• 101 Article
• 50 Chapter
• 30 Conference paper
• 20 Other report
• 52 More
  • 19 Meeting abstract (Book)
  • 6 Editorial
  • 5 Book
  • 5 Commissioned report
  • 4 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 4 Other contribution
  • 4 Working paper
  • 2 Scholarly edition
  • 2 Other scientific journal contribution
  • 1 Comment/debate

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2021

  An Analytic Framework for Systems Resilience Based on Reaction Networks

  Veloz, T., Maldonado, P., Busseniers, E., Bassi, A., Beigi, S., Lenartowicz, M. & Heylighen, F., 2021, (Submitted) In : Complexity.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  File

  • Farms 100%
  • Large scale systems 86%
  • Milk 68%
  • Economics 32%
  55 Downloads (Pure)

• Collective Consciousness Supported by the Web: healthy or toxic?

  Beigi, S. & Heylighen, F., 2021, (Accepted/In press) Computational Collective Intelligence: 13th International Conference, ICCCI 2021, Proceedings. Springer, (LNAI).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access

  File

  • collective consciousness 100%
  • consciousness 63%
  • conversation 36%
  • narrative 14%
  35 Downloads (Pure)

• Entanglement, Symmetry Breaking and Collapse: Correspondences Between Quantum and Self-Organizing Dynamics

  Heylighen, F., 20 Mar 2021, In : Foundations of Science. 2021, p. 1-29 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Entanglement 100%
  • Symmetry 93%
  • Organizing 84%
  • Attractor 62%
  • Nonlocality 32%

• Evolutionary Psychology

  Heylighen, F., 2021, Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Maggino, F. (ed.). Living Edition ed. Cham.: Springer

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Noospheric consciousness: integrating neural models of consciousness and of the web

  Beigi, S. & Heylighen, F., 21 Jun 2021, 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 (WebSci ’21 Companion): ,June 21–25, 2021, Virtual Event, United Kingdom. New York: ACM, p. 63-66 4 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access

  File

  • World Wide Web 100%
  • Brain 84%
  • Neural networks 30%
  53 Downloads (Pure)

• Technology & Society: social, philosophical and ethical implications for the 21st century

  Heylighen, F., 2021, Brussels: ECCO VUB, 121 p.

  Research output: Working paper

  File

  • ethical implications 100%
  • cybernetics 35%
  • bibliography 29%
  • student 7%
  117 Downloads (Pure)

• Transcending the Rational Symbol System: how ICT integrates science, art, philosophy and spirituality into a global brain

  Heylighen, F., 2021, Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Gontier, N., Lock, A. & Sinha, C. (eds.). Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Artificial intelligence 100%
  • Virtual reality 98%
  • Information technology 98%
  • Brain 92%
  • Neural networks 67%
• 2020

  Cybernetics

  Heylighen, F. & Lenartowicz, M., 2020, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd Edition ed. Wiley-Blackwell, p. 1-4

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  • cybernetics 100%
  • information flow 19%
  • transdisciplinary 17%
  • science studies 17%
  • social system 15%

• Effective Thinking: a concise survey of elements, mechanisms and methods

  Heylighen, F., 2020, The Practice of Thinking. Lenartowicz, M. (ed.). ASP / VUBPRESS

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access

  File

  • meditation 100%
  • heuristics 74%
  • brain 67%
  • cognition 65%
  • trend 39%
  54 Downloads (Pure)

• Ethics and Complexity: Why standard ethical frameworks cannot cope with socio-technological change

  Vidal, C. & Heylighen, F., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Investigating Transhumanisms and Their Narratives. Jorion, P. (ed.).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access

  • Ethical Framework 100%
  • Technological Change 92%
  • World View 65%
  • Newtonian 30%
  • Theology 20%

• Foundations of ArtScience: Formulating the problem

  Heylighen, F. & Petrovic, K., 10 Apr 2020, In : Foundations of Science. 26, 2, p. 225-244 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  File

  • Art and Science 100%
  • Art 92%
  • Two Cultures 37%
  • Mystery 30%
  • Artist 20%
  21 Downloads (Pure)

• Mind, Brain and Body: An evolutionary perspective on the human condition

  Heylighen, F., 2020, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. 181 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition › Research

  Open Access

  File

  • Human Condition 100%
  • Nature 77%
  • Evolutionary 72%
  • Personal Identity 68%
  • Origin of Language 61%
  172 Downloads (Pure)

• The dark side of thinking through other minds

  Van de Cruys, S. & Heylighen, F., 2020, In : Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43, E116.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
• 2019

  Vicky Prefers Voltaire to Vogue: Obstacles to the Self-actualisation of Gifted Women within Social Systems

  Kingsbury, K. & Heylighen, F., 2019, In : Social Science Research Network. 2019, 27 p., 3381601.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • social system 100%
  • shame 71%
  • gift 36%
  • guilt 34%
  • testimony 33%
• 2018

  Complexity and Evolution: fundamental concepts of a new scientific worldview

  Heylighen, F., 2018, Brussels: Vrije Universiteit Brussel. 167 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition › Research

  File

  • World View 100%
  • Self-organization 73%
  • Evolutionary 68%
  • Complex Systems 66%
  • Negative Feedback 44%
  21 Downloads (Pure)

• Mind outside Brain: a radically non-dualist foundation for distributed cognition: Socially Extended Epistemology

  Heylighen, F. & Beigi, S., 2018, Socially Extended Epistemology. Carter, J. A., Clark, A., Kallestrup, J., Palermos, S. O. & Pritchard, D. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 59-86

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Distributed Cognition 100%
  • Epistemology 56%
  • Process Metaphysics 38%
  • Intentional Stance 35%
  • Eastern philosophy 33%

• Self-organization, Emergence and Stigmergy: Coordination from the Bottom-up

  Heylighen, F., 2018, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XV. Auger, A. & Fonseca, C. M. (eds.). Springer, p. XXVI-XXVII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 11101).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

• The Human Takeover: A Call for a Venture into an Existential Opportunity

  Lenartowicz, M., Weinbaum, D. R., Heylighen, F., Kingsbury, K. & Harmsen, T., 5 May 2018, In : Information. 9, 5, 25 p., 113.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2017

  Complexe Adaptieve Steden: een platform voor zelforganisatie

  Heylighen, F., 2017, De humane stad: 30 voorstellen voor een stad op mensenmaat. Ballon, P., Macharis, C. & Ryckewaert, M. (eds.). Brussels: ASP / VUBPRESS, p. 1-24 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  File

  • Planning 100%
  • Adaptive systems 57%
  • Computer systems 45%
  • Large scale systems 44%
  • Industry 22%
  1 Downloads (Pure)

• Conceptions of a Global Brain: an historical review

  Heylighen, F., 2017, The Way that Big History Works: Cosmos, LIfe, Society and our Future. Rodrigue, B., Grinin, L. & Korotayev, A. (eds.). Delhi: Primus Books, Vol. III. p. 341-256

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Planets 100%
  • Brain 71%
  • Intelligent networks 56%
  • Neurology 50%
  • Collaborative filtering 48%

• De humane stad.

  Ryckewaert, M., Aernouts, N., Ballon, P., Boussauw, K., Coene, G., Corijn, E., Donders, K., Heylighen, F., Heyman, R., Keserü, I., Macharis, C., Mariën, I., Maus, M., Pinxten, R., Van Den Houte, K., Van Der Graaf, S., Van Meeteren, M., Vanderstraeten, L., Vanhaeght, A-S., Walravens, N. & 1 others, Winter, A., 2017, ASP / VUBPRESS. 270 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Specialist

• Distributed Intelligence Technologies: present and future applications

  Heylighen, F., Mar 2017, The Future Information Society: Social and Technological Problems. Burgin, M. & Hofkirchner, W. (eds.). World Scientific Publishing, p. 179-212 ( World Scientific Series in Information Studies; vol. 8).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Semantic Web 100%
  • Internet of things 88%
  • Brain 82%
  • Data mining 82%
  • Health 73%

• Philosophy and Complexity

  Heylighen, F., Cilliers, P. & Gershenson Garcia, C., 2017, Complexity, Science and Society. Bogg, J. & Geyer, R. (eds.). London: CRC Press, p. 117 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Complexity Science 100%
  • Philosophy 91%
  • Philosophy of Science 52%
  • Unification 40%
  • Newtonian 40%

• The Global Brain as a model of the future information society: An introduction to the special issue

  Heylighen, F. & Lenartowicz, M., 1 Jan 2017, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 114, p. 1-6 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

  • Information Society 100%
  • Brain 71%
  • Paradigm 19%
  • Neurology 16%
  • History of Ideas 15%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

• The offer network protocol: Mathematical foundations and a roadmap for the development of a global brain

  Heylighen, F., 1 Jan 2017, In : The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 226, 2, p. 283-312 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • brain 100%
  • Brain 87%
  • Network protocols 71%
  • resources 69%
  • Planets 61%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Towards an Intelligent Network for Matching Offer and Demand: from the sharing economy to the Global Brain

  Heylighen, F., Jan 2017, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 114, 1, p. 74-85 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Intelligent networks 100%
  • Sharing Economy 96%
  • Intelligence 80%
  • Brain 63%
  • Economics 59%
  31 Citations (Scopus)
• 2016

  Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism I: Definition and components

  Heylighen, F., 2016, In : Cognitive Systems Research. 38, p. 4–13

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Robotics 100%
  • Insecta 98%
  • Internet 91%
  • Power (Psychology) 86%
  • Communication 71%
  65 Citations (Scopus)

• Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism II: Varieties and evolution

  Heylighen, F., 2016, In : Cognitive Systems Research. 38, p. 50–59

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Insecta 100%
  • Cognition 76%
  • Profitability 28%
  • Websites 27%
  • Data storage equipment 19%
  12 Citations (Scopus)
• 2015

  Chemical Organization Theory as a modeling framework for self-organization, autopoiesis and resilience

  Heylighen, F., Beigi, S. & Veloz, T., 2015, ECCO VUB, 29 p. (ECCO Working Papers).

  Research output: Working paper

• Dialogue 11.1

  Heylighen, F. & Goertzel, B., 2015, The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity. B., G. & T., G. (eds.). Humanity+ Press, p. 359-372

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Scenarios 100%
  • Gusto 60%
  • Feat 45%
  • Stakes 41%
  • Flourishing 40%

• Dialogue 16.1

  Heylighen, F., Weinbaum, D. & Goertzel, B., 2015, The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity. B., G. & T., G. (eds.). Humanity+ Press, p. 500-554

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Brain 100%

• Governing the Future’s Power System: toward a method of guided self-organisation for the Smart Grid

  Veitas, V., Heylighen, F., Hodne, T-E., Lenartowicz, M., Weinbaum, D. R. & Beigi, S., 2015, Brussels: ECCO VUB, (ECCO Working Papers).

  Research output: Working paper

• Return to Eden? Promises and Perils on the Road to a Global Superintelligence

  Heylighen, F., 2015, The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity. Goertzel, B. & Goertzel, T. (eds.). Humanity+ Press, p. 243-305

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Eden 100%
  • Perils 87%
  • Roads 69%
  • Superorganism 31%
  • Distributed Systems 29%

• Systems Theory

  Heylighen, F. & Joslyn, C., 2015, Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Audi, R. (ed.). 3 ed. Cambridge University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
• 2014

  Challenge Propagation: Towards a theory of distributed intelligence and the global brain

  Heylighen, F. & Momo, S. (ed.), 2014, In : Spanda Journal. V, 2, 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Brain 100%
  • Chemical activation 27%
  • Reinforcement 12%
  • Neural networks 9%

• Cybernetic Principles of Aging and Rejuvenation: the buffering-challenging strategy for life extension

  Heylighen, F., 2014, In : Current Aging Science. 7, 1, p. 60-75 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Cybernetics 100%
  • Physical Exertion 83%
  • Rejuvenation 82%
  • Vibration 68%
  • Life Expectancy 61%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Evolutionary Psychology

  Heylighen, F., 2014, Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research. Michalos, A. C. (ed.). Dordrecht: Springer, p. 2058-2062 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• L’autoorganització en grups comunicatius: el sorgiment de la coordinació, les referències compartides i la intelligència collectiva

  Heylighen, F., 2014, Complèxica: Cervell, societat i llengua des de la transdisciplinarietat. Massip, À. & Bastardas, A. (eds.). Barcelona: University of Barcelona Press, p. 117-158

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Mobilization Systems: technologies for motivating and coordinating human action

  Heylighen, F., Kostov, I. & Peeters, M., 2014, The New Development Paradigm: Education, Knowledge Economy and Digital Futures. Peters, M. A., Besley, T. & Araya, D. (eds.). New York: Peter Lang , p. 115-144 30 p. (Global Studies in Education; vol. 20).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Surveying 100%
  • Education 72%
  • Health 63%
  • Feedback 53%

• The Emerging Global Brain

  Heylighen, F., 2014, Between Ape and Artilect: Conversations with Pioneers of Artificial General Intelligence and Other Transformative Technologies. Goertzel, B. (ed.). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, p. 295-324 30 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Interviews 100%
  • Brain 73%
• 2013

  Distributed Intelligence Technologies: a survey of future applications and implications of the Global Brain

  Heylighen, F., 2013, GBI Working Papers ed. Unknown.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report › Research

  • Brain 100%
  • Internet 54%
  • Crowdsourcing 47%
  • Patents and inventions 47%
  • Warehouses 45%

• Distributed Intelligence Technologies: a survey of present and future applications of the Global Brain

  Heylighen, F., 2013, GBI Working Papers ed. Brussels: Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report › Research

  • Brain 100%
  • Internet 81%
  • Hierarchical systems 40%
  • Economics 38%
  • Autonomous agents 36%

• From Human Computation to the Global Brain

  Heylighen, F., 2013, Handbook of Human Computation. Michelucci, P. (ed.). New York: Springer, p. 897-909 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Brain 100%
  • Information technology 53%
  • Internet 40%

• From Human Computation to the Global Brain: the self-organization of distributed intelligence

  Heylighen, F., 2013, Handbook of Human Computation. Springer, p. 897-909 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Perspectives on a Hyperconnected World: Insights from the Science of Complexity

  Heylighen, F. & Helbing, D., 15 Jan 2013, Reports of the World Economic Forum ed. Geneva: World Economic Forum.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › Research

  • financial instrument 100%
  • poverty 96%
  • market 77%
  • regularity 74%
  • climate change 59%

• Self-organization in Communicating Groups: the emergence of coordination, shared references and collective intelligence

  Heylighen, F., 2013, Complexity perspectives on language, communication, and society. Massip-bonet, A. & Bastardas-boada, A. (eds.). Springer, p. 117-149 33 p. (Understanding Complex Systems).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • self-organization 100%
  • workflow 90%
  • division of labor 86%
  • intelligence 65%
  • experiment 48%
  36 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  A brain in a vat cannot break out: why the singularity must be extended, embedded and embodied

  Heylighen, F., 2012, In : Journal of Consciousness Studies. 19, p. 126-142 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Brain in a Vat 100%
  • Singularity 88%
  • Intelligence 70%
  • brain 60%
  • Brain 55%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• A Tale of Challenge, Adventure and Mystery: towards an agent-based unification of narrative and scientific models of behavior

  Heylighen, F., 2012, ECCO Working Papers ed. Brussels: Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report › Research

  • Narrative Model 100%
  • Scientific Models 89%
  • Unification 80%
  • Mystery 64%
  • Monomyth 23%

• Challenge Propagation: a new paradigm for modeling distributed intelligence

  Heylighen, F., 2012, GBI Working Papers ed. Unknown.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report › Research

  • Ontology 100%
  • Chemical activation 53%
  • Large scale systems 50%
  • Brain 49%
  • Internet 40%

• Conceptions of a Global Brain

  Heylighen, F., 2012, From Big Bang to Global Civilization: A Big History Anthology. Rodrigue, B., Grinin, L. & Korotayev, A. (eds.). University of California Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Planets 100%
  • Brain 71%
  • Cybernetics 57%
  • Intelligent networks 56%
  • World Wide Web 42%