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2025
Curiosity, Awe and Wonder: The Emotions that Open Our Mind
Heylighen, F., 2025, In: Foundations of Science. 27 p., 104937.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Emergence
Heylighen, F., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Elgar Encyclopedia of Complexity in the Social Sciences. Mitleton-Kelly, E. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Self-organization
Heylighen, F., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Elgar Encyclopedia of Complexity in the Social Sciences. Mitleton-Kelly, E. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Technology & Society: social, philosophical and ethical implications of accelerating innovation
Heylighen, F., 2025, Brussels: ECCO VUB, 130 p.Research output: Working paper
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Why Uncertainty Is Essential for Consciousness: Local Prospect Theory vs. Predictive Processing
Heylighen, F. & Beigi, S., 28 Jan 2025, In: Entropy. 27, 2, 29 p., 140.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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2024
Chemical Organization Theory as a General Modeling Framework for Self-Sustaining Systems
Heylighen, F., Beigi, S. & Veloz, T., 2024, In: Systems. 12, 4, 21 p., 111.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The local prospect theory of subjective experience: a soft solution to the hard problem of consciousness
Heylighen, F. & Beigi, S., 1 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Consciousness Studies. 31, 11-12, p. 122-152 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Third Story of the Universe: an evolutionary worldview for the noosphere
Heylighen, F., Beigi, S. & Vidal, C., 2024, April ed., CLEA/Human Energy.Research output: Working paper
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2023
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness
Heylighen, F., 2023, In: Religion, Brain & Behavior. 13, 4, p. 470-472 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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Anxiety, Depression and Despair in the Information Age: the Techno-Social Dilemma
Heylighen, F. & Beigi, S., 2023, ECCO VUB, 45 p. (ECCO Working papers).Research output: Working paper
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Complexity and Evolution
Veloz, T., Heylighen, F. & Witkowski, O., Feb 2023, In: Entropy. 25, 2, 286.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Complexity and Evolution
Heylighen, F., Veloz, T., Witkowski, O. & Flores, D., 3 Feb 2023, 2 ed. MDPI. 135 p. (Entropy)Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition › Research
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Entanglement, Symmetry Breaking and Collapse: Correspondences Between Quantum and Self-Organizing Dynamics
Heylighen, F., Mar 2023, In: Foundations of Science. 28, 1, p. 85-107 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Modeling Autopoiesis and Cognition with Reaction Networks
Heylighen, F. & Busseniers, E., Aug 2023, In: BioSystems. 230, 12 p., 104937.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Relational agency: a new ontology for co-evolving systems
Heylighen, F., 2023, Evolution ‘On Purpose’: Teleonomy in Living Systems. Corning, P. (ed.). MIT Press, p. 79-104 26 p. (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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The local prospect theory of subjective experience (working paper)
Heylighen, F. & Beigi, S., 2023, 01 ed., CLEA/Human Energy, 29 p. (CLEA Working papers).Research output: Working paper
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The Meaning and Origin of Goal-Directedness: A Dynamical Systems Perspective
Heylighen, F., 1 Aug 2023, In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139, 4, p. 370-387 18 p., blac060.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Why Emergence and Self-Organization are Conceptually Simple, Common and Natural
Heylighen, F., 2023, (Submitted) Proceedings of the Science Week on Complexity, UM6P, Ben Guerir, 2023.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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2022
Ethics and Complexity: Why standard ethical frameworks cannot cope with socio-technological change
Vidal, C. & Heylighen, F., 2022, Humanism and its Discontents: The Rise of Transhumanism and Posthumanism. Jorion, P. (ed.). Springer New York, p. 197-216 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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The role of self-maintaining resilient reaction networks in the origin and evolution of life
Heylighen, F., Beigi, S. & Busseniers, E., Sept 2022, In: BioSystems Journal. 219, 104720.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Towards an Analytic Framework for System Resilience Based on Reaction Networks
Veloz, T., Maldonado, P., Busseniers, E., Bassi, A., Beigi, S., Lenartowicz, M. & Heylighen, F., 2022, In: Complexity. 2022, p. 1-29 29 p., 9944562.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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2021
Characteristics and Problems of the Gifted: neural propagation depth and flow motivation as a model of intelligence and creativity
Heylighen, F., 2021, The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary. Lenartowicz, M. & Weinbaum, W. D. R. (eds.). Academia Press, p. 357-404Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Collective Consciousness Supported by the Web: healthy or toxic?
Beigi, S. & Heylighen, F., 2021, Computational Collective Intelligence: ICCCI 2021. Nguyen, N. T., Nguyen, N. T., Iliadis, L., Maglogiannis, I. & Trawiński, B. (eds.). Springer, Vol. 12876. p. 81-93 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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Effective Thinking: A concise survey of elements, mechanisms and methods
Heylighen, F., 2021, The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary. Lenartowicz, M. & Weinbaum, W. D. R. (eds.). Gent: ASP / VUBPRESS, p. 87-136Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Evolutionary Psychology
Heylighen, F., 2021, Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Maggino, F. (ed.). Living Edition ed. Cham.: Springer, 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Goal Directedness, Chemical Organizations, and Cybernetic Mechanisms
Busseniers, E., Veloz, T. & Heylighen, F., 12 Aug 2021, In: Entropy. 23, 8, 15 p., 1039.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Intelligence of Intelligence: Thinking Unbound
Lenartowicz, M., Weinbaum, W. D. R., Heylighen, F. & Woodley of Menie, M., 2021, The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary. Lenartowicz, M. & Weinbaum, W. D. R. (eds.). Academia Press, p. 547-573Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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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
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Thinking About Thinking: Scaffoldings of Metacognition
Lenartowicz, M., Weinbaum, W. D. R., Swiezy, M., Heylighen, F. & Verelst, K., 2021, The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary. Lenartowicz, M. & Weinbaum, W. D. R. (eds.). Gent: Academia Press, p. 15-37Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Transcending the Rational Symbol System: how ICT integrates science, art, philosophy and spirituality into a global brain
Heylighen, F., May 2021, Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Gontier, N., Lock, A. & Sinha, C. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 991-1026 38 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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2020
Cybernetics
Heylighen, F. & Lenartowicz, M., 2020, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd Edition ed. Wiley-Blackwell, p. 1-4Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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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 › peer-review
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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
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The dark side of thinking through other minds
Van de Cruys, S. & Heylighen, F., 28 May 2020, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43, E116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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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
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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
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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. 59-86Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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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
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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 › peer-review
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2017
Complexe Adaptieve Steden: een platform voor zelforganisatie
Translated title of the contribution :Complex Adaptive Cities: a platform for self-organization Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Specialist › peer-review
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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. 341-256Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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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, 2017, ASP / VUBPRESS. 270 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Specialist
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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 › Research › peer-review
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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 › Research › peer-review
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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
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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 › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
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2016
Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism I: Definition and components
Heylighen, F., 2016, In: Cognitive Systems Research. 38, p. 4–13Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism II: Varieties and evolution
Heylighen, F., 2016, In: Cognitive Systems Research. 38, p. 50–59Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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