Complexity Related Application Papers
These online papers show the use of systems thinking ideas in other academic or human fields
or give research findings from other areas that support and enhance similar findings
from within the complexity specialisms. These transdisciplinary applications help to establish the
systemic nature of complexity science and establish analogies that allow these findings
to be widely employed. Also included are interesting papers outlining prescient historical views
within these specialist fields and alternative approaches to world issues that fit in with the
wider contextual, coevolutionary and integrated approach to connectivity and dynamics taken by CALResCo.
See also Essays , Online & Offline papers, Related Sciences & Philosophies
Applications and Book Reviews.
Artistic Papers
About the Relationship of Artificial Life to Digital Art, with a Focus on the Aesthetic of Behaviour-based Models - Damien Cola
Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets
- Thomas S. Ray
Darwin Machine: Artificial Life and Art - Simon Penny
Dynamic Symbolism, Chaos & Perception - David DeMaris
On the Implicit & on the Artificial: Morphogenesis & Emergent Aesthetics in Autonomous Collective Systems - Vitorino Ramos
Stepping Stones in the Mist - Paul Brown
Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny - Kenneth E. Rinaldo
Biology & Neurobiology Papers
A Developmental Contextual View of Human Devcelopment - Richard M. Lerner
An Introduction to “Maturana’s” Biology - Lloyd Fell & David Russell
BacSim: A Simulator for Bacterial Colony Growth - Jan-Ulrich Kreft, Ginger Booth & Julian Wimpenny
Biology of Cognition - Humberto Maturana
Biosemiotics: Towards a New Synthesis in Biology - Jesper Hoffmeyer
Brain, Language and the Origin of Human Mental Functions - Humberto Maturana, Jorge Mpodozis & Juan Carlos Letelier
Cerebral Code: Thinking A Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind - William H. Calvin 
Chaos in the Central Nervous System - William Freeman
Cognitive Aspects of Communication between Cells - Don Mikulecky
Comparison between Karl Pribram's Holographic Brain Theory & More Conventional Models of Neuronal Computation - Jeff Prideaux
Complexity of Brains: A Biologist's View - Chris Smith
Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language - William H. Calvin & George A. Ojemann
Digital Non-Biological Lifeform - David Harrison
Emergent Behaviour in Biological Systems - David Green
Fractals in Biological Systems - Angel Chang
From the Head to the Heart: Some Thoughts on Similarities between Brain Function & Morphogenesis - Paul Grobstein
Life-time Selection and Self-Organization in Tree Growth - Rekesh John
Making Up the Mind - Oliver Sacks
Many To One Mappings as a Basis for Life - Roland Somogyi
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity - Gregory Bateson
Order from Disorder: The Thermodynamics of Complexity in Biology - Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay
Poly-Contextural Modeling of Heterarchies in Brain Functions - Rudolf Kaehr and E. von Goldammer
Qualitative Overview of Population Neurodynamics - Walter Freeman
Self-Organization and the Dreaming Brain - David Kahn and J. Allan Hobson
Shufflebrain: The Quest of Hologramic Mind - Paul Pietsch
The Architecture of Life - Donald E. Ingber
The Complementary Brain: Unifying Brain Dynamics and Modularity - Stephen Grossberg
The Concept of Self-Organization in Cellular Architecture - Tom Misteli
The New Connectionism: Developing Relationships Between Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence - Jacob T. Schwartz
The Physiology of Perception - Walter J. Freeman
Variability in Brain Function and Behavior - Paul Grobstein
Visual Models of Morphogenesis - Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Mark Hammel
Chemistry (Organic & Inorganic) Papers
Redundant Complexity: A Critical Analysis of Intelligent Design in Biochemistry - Niall Shanks and Karl H. Joplin
Self-Replication - Even Peptides Do It - Stuart Kauffman
Conflict & War Papers
Command and (Out of) Control: The Military Implications of Complexity Theory - John F. Schmitt
Complexity, Global Politics & National Security - Murray Gell-Mann
Early Warning and Conflict Prevention: Minerva's Wisdom - Ruddy Doom
Security and the Peace Dividend: Prospects in South Asia - Amartya Sen
Decisions and Teleology Papers
Anatomy of Teleology - Julian Cole
Assessment of Personal Goal Hierarchies - Marlene Winell and Donald H. Ford
Autonomy, Function, and Representation - Mark Bickhard 
Axiology: The Science of Decision Making - Robert Kinsel Smith
Decision Emergence Out Of Complexity and Chaos - Vladimir Dimitrov
Evolution's Arrow - John Stewart
Evolution, Teleology, Intentionality - Daniel C. Dennett
Genetic Algorithm as Decision Support Tool - Glenda Eoyang
How to Make a Decision Without Making a Decision - Tom Atlee
How to Make Decisions: Coherence, Emotion, and Practical Inference - Paul Thagard
Introduction to Decision Making
- Robert Harris
Moral Decision Making - An Analysis - Chris MacDonald
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction - Richard S. Sutton & Andrew G. Barto
Requisite Cognitive Skills for Decisions About Systems - Gary Chicoine-Piper
Satisficing and Optimality - Michael Byron
Telenomic Agency: Toward a Proper Functions Theory of Normativity - William Harms
Testing Guesses - Martha Bartter
The Role of Moral Psychology in Theories of Practical Reason - Timothy J. Taylor
Design & Technology Papers
A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller - Amy C. Edmondson
A-Design - Adaptive, Agent-Based Method of Conceptual Design
An Evolutionary Architecture - Robert Saunders
Artifical Evolution for Computer Graphics - Karl Sims
Connecting the Fractal City - Nikos A. Salingaros
Cosmism: Nano Electronics & 21st Century Global Ideological Warfare - Hugo de Garis
Emergence on the Web - Selena Sol
Fractal Shape Changing Robots - Robodyne Cybernetics
Gene Genie: Making DNA Computers - Thomas Bass
Knowledge Extraction from Data Using Self-Organizing Modeling Technologies - Frank Lemke
Non-Standard Computation : An Overview - Susan Stepney
Out of Control: A New Biology of Machines - Kevin Kelly
Post-Modular Systems: Architectural Principles for Cognitive Robotics - Lynn Andrea Stein
Principles and Guidelines for Sustainable Community Design - Robert Hsin
Self-Replication and Nanotechnology - Xerox
Soft Computing: When It's Not Black and White - Hank Hogan
SOMLib:Distributed Digital Library based on Self-Organizing Maps - Andreas Rauber
Using Pareto Optimality to Coordinate Distributed Agents - Charles J. Petrie,Teresa A. Webster & Mark R. Cutkosky
Ecology & Evolution Papers
A 21st Century View of Evolution - James A. Shapiro
A Brief Critique of Evolution from the Developmental Perspective - Robert F. DeHaan
A Speed Limit for Evolution - Robert Worden
Autocatakinetics, the Minimal Ontology & the Constitutive Logic of Ecological Relations - Rod Swenson
Beyond the Limits: Executive Summary - Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows & Jorgen Randers
Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability - Gunter Wagner & Lee Altenberg
Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionism, and Ecology within Anthropology- Tom Abel
Connectivity and Complexity in Landscapes and Ecosystems - David Green
Darwin Amongst the Machines; or The Origins of [Artificial] Life - George Dyson
Darwinism and Development Systems - Paul Griffiths & Russell Gray
Darwinism: Science or Philosophy - ed. Jon Buell and Virginia Hearn
Ecosystems, Science and Sustainability - James Kay
Embracing Complexity: The Challenge of the Ecosystem Approach - James Kay and Eric Schneider
Environmentalism: The Triumph of Politics - Doug Bandow
Evolution: An Epigenetic Approach - Mae-Wan Ho
From Social Synapses to Social Ganglions: Complex Adaptive Systems in the Jurassic Age - Howard Bloom
Holistic Darwinism: Synergistic Selection and the Evolutionary Process - Peter Corning
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Incorporating Complexity in Ecosystem Modelling - Lael Parrott & Robert Kok
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Massively Parallel Simulations of
Complex, Large Scale, High Resolution Ecosystem Models - Randy Gimblett, George Ball, Vince Lopes, Bernard Zeigler, Bill Sanders & Michael Marefat
Meme-Gene Coevolution - Susan Blackmore
Mutualism, Parasitism, and Evolutionary Adaptation - Richard A. Watson, Torsten Reil & Jordan B. Pollack
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin
Network Analysis for the Neuse River - Robert R. Christian and Cassondra Thomas
Niche Construction, Biological Evolution & Cultural Change - Kevin Laland, John Odling-Smee & Marcus Feldman
Nondual Ecology: A Study in Deep Ecology - John McClellan
Notes on the Simulation of Evolution - Wirt Atmar
Post Normal Science, Environmental Policy under Conditions of Complexity - Silvio Funtowicz and Jerry Ravetz
Recent Work on the Levels of Selection Problem - Samir Okasha
Re-Introducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioural Sciences - David Sloan Wilson and Elliott Sober
Self-Organising in Spatial Competition Systems - Craig R. Johnson
Sustainability, Stability, and Resilience - Donald Ludwig, Brian Walker & Crawford S. Holling
The Development Hypothesis - Herbert Spencer
The Evolving Mind - Ben Goertzel
The Extent to which Organisms Construct their Environments - Mark A. Bedau
The Growth of Structural & Function Complexity during Evolution - Francis Heylighen
The Natural Philosophy of
Ecology: Developmental Systems Ecology (Infodynamics) - Stanley Salthe
The Role of Symbiosis in Evolutionary Adaptation - Richard A. Watson
What is Social Ecology ?- Murray Bookchin
Economics, Business & Management Papers
A Critique of the Chicago School: Ronald Coase & the Coase Theorem - Steve Kangas
A Quiet Revolution In Welfare Economics - Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel
Against Scientific Imperialism - John Dupré
A Theory of the Cultural Evolution of the Firm: The Intra-Organizational Ecology of Memes - John Weeks and Charles Galunic
Autopoiesis in Organisations - Vladimir Dimitrov and Lloyd Fell
Between Chaos and Order: What Complexity Theory can Teach Business - David Berreby
Beyond Greed & Scarcity - Bernard Lietaer
Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem - Michael Rothschild
Challenging Behaviorist Dogma: Myths About Money and Motivation - Alfie Kohn
Chaos Theory as a Framework for studying Financial Markets - John Barber
Complexity - the Science, its Vocabulary, and its Relation to Organizations - Michael R. Lissack
Complexity Theory and Management Practice - Jonathan Rosenhead
Corporate Culture and Complexity: Part 1 , 2A , 2B , 2C , 2D - Marilyn Herasymowych & Henry Senko
Corporate Culture and Complexity: Part 3A , 3B , 3C - Christine Oliver, Marilyn Herasymowych & Henry Senko
Cracking Wall Street - Kevin Kelly
Culture, Spirituality, and Economic Development: Opening a Dialogue - William F. Ryan
Defining Ortegrity - Timothy Wilken
Economic Theory, Anticipatory Systems & Artificial Adaptive Agents - Sérgio Luiz de Medeiros Rivero, Bernd Heinrich Storb & Raul Sidnei Wazlawick
Entropic Measures of Market Complexity and Production Flexibility - Robert B. Johnston
Evolutionary Economics: Metaphor or Unifying Paradigm ? - Peter Corning
Frederick Soddy and The Doctrine of Virtual Wealth - J. Martin Hattersley
From Chaos to Complexity in Strategic Planning - Steven Phelan
Genuine Progress Indicator - Jonathan Rowe and Mark Anielski
Global Problems, Local Solutions - Wendell Berry
In Defense of Property Rights and Capitalism - Tibor R. Machan
In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
Markets and Antimarkets in the World Economy - Manuel De Landa
Mind and Labour - Ben Kutz
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution - Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins
On Theorizing the Complexity of Economic Systems - Jean Louis Le Moigne
Organisations as Co-evolving Complex Adaptive Systems - Eve Mitleton-Kelly
Personal Transformation - Peter Senge
Public Action to Remedy Hunger - Amartya Sen
Social Credit - Clifford Hugh Douglas
Steady-State Economics: A Catechism of Growth Fallacies - Herman Daly
Structural Cybernetics: An Overview - N. Dean Meyer
Synergic Consumption - Timothy Wilken
That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen - Frederic Bastiat
The Abolition of Work - Bob Black
The Betrayal of Adam Smith - David C. Korten
The Capitalist Threat - George Soros
The Chaordic Organization: Out of Control and Into Order - Dee Hock
The Developing Ideas Interview - Herman Daly
The Ecology of Leadership - Peter M. Senge
The Fourth Wave: The Ethics of Corporate Downsizing - John Orlando
The New Sciences and the Learning Organization: Part 1 , 2A , 2B , 3A , 3B , 4A , 4B - Marilyn & Sonia Herasymowych
The New Sciences and the Learning Organization: Part 5A , 5B , 5C , 6A , 6B , 6C - Marilyn & Sonia Herasymowych
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science - Ludwig von Mises
Education and Learning Papers
Consciousness and Education: A Process Perspective - Steve Mashalidis
Criticality in Learning - Jeff Sale
Democracy and Education - John Dewey
Designing Effective Learning Environments: Cognitive Apprenticeship Models - Sue E. Berryman
Dynamic Learning Communities: An
Alternative to Designed Instructional Systems - Brent Wilson and Martin Ryder
Education As Real Life - Douglas S. Johnson
Education For & With Values Immanent in the Emergent Levels of Socio-Cybernetic Being - Gary McI. Boyd
Emile, or On Education
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
From Theory to Practice: Classroom Application of Outcome-Based Education - Janet Battistini
How High School Students Become System Thinkers - Scott Guthrie & Diana Fisher
How Julie's Brain Learns - Eric Jensen
Knowledge as a Complex Evolutionary System: An Educational Imperative - Derek Cabrera
Kurt Lewin's Change Theory in the Field & in the Classroom - Edgar H. Schein
Myths about Learning - Judy Yero
Making Ecology Make Sense: The Six Disciplines of All Species Project - Chris Wells
Organization Theory and Ethics - Eric Bredo
Partners in Life: Syntony at Work - Kathia and Alexander Laszlo
Paths Of Learning: An Introduction to Educational Alternatives - Robin Ann Martin
Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism - Martha Nussbaum
Patterns That Connect:: Rethinking our Approach to Learning & Teaching - Jeffrey W. Bloom
Pluralisms for Education: An Ethics of Care Perspective - Ann Diller
Positioning Sustainability as a Global Goal - Michael O'Callaghan
Radical Perspectivism: Chapter on Education - Alexander Makedon
Rethinking the Benefits of the College-Bound Curriculum: Escaping Academic Captivity - Nel Noddings
Scientific Ideas and Education in the 21st Century - Ash Hartwell
Seeking Common Ground: Piaget and Skinner on the Nature of Learning - Pat Duffy Hutcheon
Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning - John Seely Brown, Allan Collins and Paul Duguid
Sociocultural Approaches to Learning and Development: A Vygotskian Framework - Vera John-Steiner and Holbrook Mahn
Synergic Inquiry (SI): An Alternative Framework for Transformative Learning - Yongming Tang
Teaching System Dynamics to Teachers and Students in 8-12 Environment - Diana M. Fisher
Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days - Michael Umphrey
The Case Against Competition - Alfie Kohn
The Development Of Systems Thinking Skills Using System Dynamics Modeling Tools - Günther Ossimitz
The Education of the Complete Moral Person - Marvin W. Berkowitz
The Missing Context in Science Education: Science - Jay Lemke
The Need to Belong: Rediscovering Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Norman Kunc
The Wandwaver Solution
- John N. Warfield
Three Views of the Agentic Self: A Developmental Synthesis - Todd D. Little, Patricia H. Hawley, Christopher C. Henrich & Katherine W. Marsland
Toward a New Continuing Higher
Education - Irene Karpiak and Bill Kops
Two Roles for Complex Systems in Education - Jim Kaput, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Michael Jacobson, Eric Jakobsson, Jay Lemke, Uri Wilensky & Collaborators
What does Research on Political Attitudes & Behaviour tell Us about the Need for Improving Education for Democracy ? - Margaret Stimmann Branson
When the School Doors Close: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Linda Dobson
Emotions and Instinct Papers
Emotional Decisions - Allison Barnes and Paul Thagard
Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions - Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
Feeling William James's But - Mark Johnson
Heidegger, Emotions, Truth - Lawrence M. Hinman
Integrating Phenomenology and Cognitive Science - Evan Thompson
Motivation and Emotion: An Interactive
Process Model - Mark Bickard
Programmed for Win/Lose: Low Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence - Barry Carter
Research Problems in the Use of a Shallow AI Model of Personality and Emotion - Clark Elliott
Review of Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason & the Human Brain - Daniel C. Dennett
Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychology - Richard E. Cytowic
The 5 Levels of the Feeling Function: A Brief Phenomenological Description - John Fudjack & Patricia Dinkelaker
Ethics and Values Papers
A Common Framework for the Ethics of the 21st Century - Yersu Kim
A General Statement of the Tragedy of the Commons - Herschel Elliott
An Earth-Based Ethic for Humanity - Stan Rowe
Applications of the Science of Axiology - Robert S. Hartman
Aristotle, Connectionism and the Morally Excellent Brain - David DeMoss
Beyond the Work Ethic - Nicholas Abel
Buddhist Virtue Ethics and the Oneness of Practice and Attainment - KnutJohan Øen
Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators - Hazel Henderson, Jon Lickerman, and Patrice Flynn
Environmental Justice: Some Ecofeminist Worries About a Distributive Model - Karren J. Warren
Ethics: A General Semantics Perspective - Bruce Kodish
Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics - Heinz von Foerster
Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies - Peter Danielson
Foundations of Morality - Henry Hazlitt
From Is to Ought: Another Way - John F. Post
Human Values as Strange Attractors: Coevolution of Classes of Governance Principles - Anthony Judge
Interspecific Justice and Intrinsic Value - Donald VanDeVeer
Intrinsic Value in Nature: A Metaethical Analysis - J. Baird Callicott
Life as the Standard of Value - Eyal Mozes
Living Ethics: The Way of Wholeness - Donivan Bessinger
Moral Objectivism - Michael Huemer
Moral Realism, Moral Relativism and Moral Rules (A Compatibility Argument) - Graham Oddie
On Ecological Ethics: An Introduction - Patrick Curry
Polanyi's Overcoming of the Dichotomy of Fact and Value - Richard T. Allen
Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy Bentham
Quality and Intelligence - John Beasley
Rehabilitating Care - Alisa L. Carse and Hilde Lindemann
Social Norms: Internalization, Persuasion & History - Amitai Etzioni
The Biological Basis of Morality - Edward O. Wilson
The Evolution of Ethics - Sarah Bromberg
The Human Basis Of Laws And Ethics - Frederick Edwords
The Morality of Competition - Frederick M. Gordon
The Philosophical Appendix to Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research - Caroline Whitbeck
The Sense of Values - Raymond Boudon
Value Theory: Toward Conceptual Clarification - Pat Duffy Hutcheon
Values and Lifestyle Program - VALS Group, SRI International
Virtue Ethics as a Foundation for Business Ethics: A MacIntyre-Based Critique - John Dobson
Virtue Ethics without Character Traits - Gilbert Harman
Games Papers
Artificial Life Meets Entertainment - Lifelike Autonomous Agents - Pattie Maes
Buckminster Fuller & the Game of the World - Medard Gabel
Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment - Stephen Grand, Dave Cliff & Anil Malhotra
Genetic Algorithms & Games Theory - Steve Nichols
Genetics Papers
Biological Complexity
- Peter R. Wills
Mining the Gene Expression Matrix: Inferring Gene Relationships from Large Scale Gene Expression Data - Patrik D'haeseleer, Xiling Wen, Stefanie Fuhrman, and Roland Somogyi
New Approaches to the Study of Complex Biological Processes - National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Self-Assembly of Gene Nets in Evolution - Alexander Spirov
Linguistics & Communications Papers
Connectionism and Second Language Vocabulary - Robert Waring
Emptying Your Cup: Non-Verbal Awareness and General-Semantics - Bruce I. Kodish
Framing the Postmodern: Language, Culture, Commerce and Consciousness - David Peckinpaugh
General Semantics: The Next Generation - Nicholas Johnson
Language as a Dynamical System - Jeffrey L. Elman
Language Evolution and the Complexity Criterion - Bernard H. Bichakjian
Language Theory: Consensual Selection
of Dynamics - Charles Henry & Luis Rocha
Managing Metaphors - Differing Interpretations and Implications of Complexity Theory - Donald MacLean, Michael Mayer, Robert MacIntosh & Arthur Francis
Manhood of Humanity - Alfred Korzybski
Material Sign Processes and Emergent Ecosocial Organization - Jay L. Lemke
Metaphors as Transdisciplinary Vehicles of the Future - Anthony Judge
The Role of Language in the Perceptual Processes - Alfred Korzybski
Vico, Wittgenstein & Bakhtin: Practical Trust in Dialogical Communities - John Shotter
Literature Papers
A Meditation on the Mandelbrot Set, via Walt Whitman - Len Warne
Chaos, Fractals & Arcadia - Robert Devaney on Tom Stoppard's play
Ishmael and General Semantics Theory - Andy Hilgartner on Daniel Quinn's novel
Simple Complexity: The Little Prince - Michael Waddell on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book
Ulysses, Chaos, and Complexity - Thomas Jackson Rice on James Joyce's novel
Wordsworth and The Composition of Knowledge - Brad Sullivan
Maths Papers
A Compendium of NP Optimisation Problems - Pierluigi Crescenzi
Nonlinear Dynamics as a Dialectic Logic - Hector Sabelli
Towards A Mathematics Of Complexity - David Green
Medicine Papers
A Complexity based Model of Schizophrenia - Nicholas Williams
Artificial Convolution Neural Network with Wavelet Kernels For Disease Pattern Recognition - Lo et al. 
Chaos and Complexity as Theoretical Grounding for Psychotherapeutic Listening - Joanna Poppink
Complexity Papers for Health Care Professionals - Edgeware
Energy Talk - Larry Dossey
Exceptional Mental Health - Al Siebert
Life, The Multiverse & Everything: An Introduction to the Ideas of Humberto Maturana - Vincent Kenny
Life at the Edge of Chaos - Curt Lindberg, Alfred Herzog, Martin Merry & Jeffrey Goldstein
Metaxis and Recovery: Towards a New Vision of Health - Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, Jr & Jeffrey C. Wilson
Multiple Personality, Altered States and Virtual Reality: The World Simulation Process Approach - Charles T. Tart
Nanotechnology & Medicine - Ralph C. Merkle
Psychological Entropy - Nicholas Williams
Psychotherapy Integration: An Assimilative, Psychodynamic Approach - George Stricker and Jerold R. Gold
The Imbalanced Brain: From Normal Behaviour to Schizophrenia - Stephen Grossberg
The Sameness of Difference: Self-Organisation & the Evolution of Counselling Theory - Edward N. Drodge
Music Papers
Chaosynth: Cellular Automata Synthesis of Acoustic Particles - Eduardo Reck Miranda
Composing with Chaos - David Clark Little
Composing with Genetic Algorithms - Bruce Jacob
Interpreting Rhythmic Structures Using Artificial Neural Networks - S. C. Roberts
Musical Networks - Niall Griffith & Peter M. Todd
Musical Signals from Chua's Oscillator - G. Mayer-Kress, I. Choi, N. Weber, R. Bargar & A. Hübler
Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead - Christopher Chase
Sonomorphs - Gary Lee Nelson
Philosophy Papers
A Common Structure for Concepts of Individuals, Stuffs and Real Kinds - Ruth Garrett Millikan
Artificial Intelligence and Connectionism: Some Philosophical Implications - Ivan M.Havel
Artificial Life as Philosophy - Daniel C. Dennett
Beyond our Senses: Recasting Book I, Part III of Hume's Treatise - Saul Traiger
Beyond Science - Robert C. Priddy
Chaos, Emergence, and the Mind-Body Problem - David V. Newman
Cog as a Thought Experiment - Daniel C. Dennett
Consequences of Pragmatism - Richard Rorty
Deleuze and the Genesis of Form - Manuel DeLanda
Epistemology and Rosen's Modeling Relation - William B. Dress
Essays in Experimental Logic - John Dewey
Extended Concept of Knowledge for Evolutionary Epistemology and Biosemiotics - Tommi Vehkavaara
Extropian Principles: A Transhumanist Declaration - Max More
From Evolutionary Epistemology Via Selection Theory to a Sociology of Scientific Validity - Donald T. Campbell
Hayek's Evolutionary Epistemology, AI and the Question of Free Will - Gary T. Dempsey
Naive Physics: An Essay in Ontology - Barry Smith and Roberto Casati
Novum Organum or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature - Francis Bacon
Objective Versus Intersubjective Truth - Nick Szabo
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense - Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline - Bernard Williams
Philosophical Issues in Brain Theory and Connectionism - Andy Clark & Chris Eliasmith
Pragmatism - William James
Pragmatism & the Question of Truth - Emile Durkheim
Predictive Deduction: Expanding the Arsenal of Science - Chris Lang
Psychology in Perspective - Huw Price
Reality: The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument - Humberto Maturana
Some Remarks on Wholes, Parts and Their Perception - Cyril Latimer and Catherine Stevens
Substance, Change and Event - Wilfrid Sellars
The Concept of Coherence Considered as a Systems Isomorphism - Zbigniew William Wolkowski
The Concept of Nature - Alfred North Whitehead
The Computer Revolution in Philosophy - Aaron Sloman
The Feminine Face of Science - Linda Jean Shepherd
The Function of Reason - Alfred North Whitehead
The Greening of Identity: Three Environmental Paths - Simon Gottschalk
The Known, the Unknown & the Unknowable - Jonathan J. Dickau
The Value of Reason: Why Not a Sardine Can Opener ? - Emily Robertson
Theory and History: The Challenge of Scientism - Ludvig von Mises
Towards a Metaview for Interscience Discussion - Joel Henkel
Transdisciplinarity - Stimulating Synergies, Integrating Knowledge
Traps Of Formal Logic & Dialectics: What They Are and How to Avoid Them - Robert E. Horn
Two Dogmas of Empiricism - Willard Quine
What is it Like to be a Bat - Thomas Nagel
What is Philosophy of Science ? - C. West Churchman
Whitehead's Even More Dangerous Idea - Peter Farleigh
Wisdom: A First Approximation - Don Cochrane
World Views: From Fragmentation to Integration - Aerts, Apostel, de Moor, Hellemans, Maex, Van Belle & Van der Veken
Physics Papers
Beyond E=mc2 - Bernard Haisch, Alfonso Rueda & Harold Puthoff
Continuous Valued Cellular Automata for Nonlinear Wave Equations - Daniel N. Ostrov
Everything For Nothing - Harold Puthoff
Four Types of Chaotic Dynamics in Cellular Flames - M. Gorman, M. el-Hamdi, Kay A. Robbins
Lifework of David Bohm - River of Truth - Will Keepin
Of Flesh and Ghosts: Self-Organization as Post-Quantum Physics - Jack Sarfatti
Particle Swarm Optimization - James Kennedy & Russell Eberhart
Particle Systems - Allen Martin
Problem of Time in Quantum Cosmology - Stuart Kauffman & Lee Smolin
Process Theory and the Concept of Substance - Ian J. Thompson
Quantum Jumps, EEQT and the Five Platonic Fractals - Ark Jadczyk and R. Oberg
Self-Organization within Complex Quantum States - Andrej Detela
The Electric Cosmos - Donald E. Scott
The Fractal Universe - Colin Hill
The Quantum Inquisition - Michael Brooks
The Vacuum, Light Speed and the Redshift - Barry Setterfield
Towards a Physics of Subjectivity - Stephen Jones
Uniformity and Variability - Manuel De Landa
Whiteheadian Process and Quantum Theory of Mind - Henry P. Stapp
Politics & Law Papers
A Citizen Agenda to Tame Corporate Power, Reclaim Citizen Sovereignty & Restore Economic Sanity - David C. Korten
A Plea for Pure Democracy - Catherine Helen Spence
An Appeal to the Young - Peter Kropotkin
Anarchism and Cybernetics - John D. McEwan
Beyond Right and Left: A Humanist Approach to Politics - Pat Duffy Hutcheon
Caring as a Democratic Virtue
- Maughn Gregory
Global Strategies Project: Order through Chaos - Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
Governance In The Planetary Age - Catherine Burton
Homo Reciprocans: Political Economy and Cultural Evolution - Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin R. Barber
Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory: The Politics & Ideology of Self-Organizing Systems - Steve Best & Douglas Kellner
Many Damn Things Simultaneously: Complexity Theory and World Affairs - James N. Rosenau
Metaphor, Morality, and Politics: Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust - George Lakoff
Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty - Emma Goldman
Perfecting Democracy's Tools - Hazel Henderson
Propaganda in a Democratic Society - Aldous Huxley
Psychodynamics of Political Correctness - Howard S. Schwartz
Redesigning Corporate Law - Robert Hinkley
Repluralising the Policy Process: Complexity Theory & Democratic process - Karin Geiselhart
Seeing The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism - David T. Ratcliffe
Socio-Cybernetics and the New Alienations - Felix Geyer
Social Construction and Identity Politics - Kenneth J. Gergen
Social Dynamics - Eric Butler
Strategies for Studying Causation in Complex Ecological Political Systems - Thomas Homer-Dixon
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life, Review by - Scott E. Page
The Biology of Globalization - Elisabet Sahtouris
The Internet and Political Transformation: Populism, Community, and Accelerated Pluralism - Bruce Bimber
The Law - Frederic Bastiat
The Man versus the State - Herbert Spencer
The Nature of Government - Frederick Mann
The Nature of the Judicial Process - Benjamin N. Cardozo
The New Civic Virtue of the Internet: A Complex Systems Model for the Governance of Cyberspace - David R. Johnson & David G. Post
The New Frontier in Democratic Theory and Practice - Andrew Dinkelaker
The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life - Robert D. Putnam
Transformational Politics - Tom Atlee
Was Democracy Just A Moment ? - Robert D. Kaplan
Psychology & Cognition Papers
A Generative Approach to the Understanding of Cognitive Skills - Brian D. Josephson and Nils A. Baas
A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animats and Humans - Anthony Chemero
Activity as A Key Concept for Cultural Psychology - Carl Ratner
Application of a Living Systems Perspective on Human Experience - Elaine R. Parent
Attractive and In-Discrete: A Critique of Two Putative Virtues of the Dynamicist Theory of Mind - Chris Eliasmith
Autocatalytic Closure in a Cognitive System - Liane Gabora
Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science - Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology - Douglas M. Burns
Chaos, Bifurcations & Self-Organization: Dynamical Extensions of Neurological Positivism & Ecological Psychology - Fred Abraham
Cognitive Architectures - From Knowledge Level To Structural Coupling - Walter Van de Velde
Connectionism, Psychology and Science - George Oliphant
Connectionism & the Study of Change - Elizabeth A. Bates & Jeffrey L. Elman
Consciousness: Chaotic & Strangely Attractive - Allan Combs
Dimensions of Consciousness Development: A Preliminary Framework - Thomas Jordan
Downward Causation: The Consciousness Revolution in Science - Roger Sperry
Equilibration of Cognitive Structures, Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence - Jean-Jacques Ducret
Forgiving Ourselves and Healing the Inner
Child - Edith Stauffer & Guy A. Pettitt
Fragmentary Perception of Thought - Ruben Feldman Gonzalez
Homage to Jean Piaget - Ernst von Glasersfeld
How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now - William H. Calvin
How the Mechanics of Thought and Memory Structure Human Development - Susan Vegors
Information and Consciousness: A Critique of the Mechanistic Concept of Information - Søren Brier
Integrating Memory and Reasoning in Analogy-Making: The AMBR Model - Boicho N. Kokinov and Alexander A. Petrov
Intelligence as an Emergent behaviour - W. Daniel Hillis
Is Human Information Processing Conscious ? - Max Velmans
Isolated and Interrelated Concepts - Robert L. Goldstone
I've Got a Map in My Head - F. David Peat
Layered Cognitive Networks - Ian J. Thompson
Mind as Evolution - Robert Pallbo
Minds, Machines and Gödel - John Lucas
Of Man, Mind and Machine - Joshua Lateiner
On Becoming a Personal Anarchist
- Spencer A. McWilliams
On Complexly Ordered Systems and Consciousness - Stephen Jones
Planetary Survival and Consciousness Evolution: Psychological Roots of Human Violence and Greed - Stanislav Grof
Principles for Implicit Learning - Axel Cleeremans
Second Order Cybernetics as Cognitive Methodology - Bernard Scott
Social Psychology - Edward Alsworth Ross
Spiral Dynamics - Ken Wilber
Strange Attractors of Meaning - Vladimir Dimitrov
Structure of Intelligence: A New Mathematical Model of the Mind - Ben Goertzel
The Acting Brain: Reviewing the Neuroscientific Evidence - Vittorio Gallese
The Beer Can Theory of Creativity - Liane Gabora
The Contributions of Humberto Maturana to the Sciences of Complexity and Psychology - Alberto B. Ruiz
The Demotion of Consciousness: From HOTs to BRRs - Kent Van Cleave
The Dynamical Systems Hypothesis in Cognitive Science - Robert F. Port
The Emergence of Intelligence - William Calvin
The Extended Mind - Andy Clark and David Chalmers
The Fragmentation of the Universe and the Devolution of Consciousness - Stephen L. Thaler
The Human Whole: The Higher Psychology & Metapsychology - Robert C. Priddy
The Humanistic Science of Man - Erich Fromm
The Necessity for Developing Skill at Mind-Process Observation - Copthorne Macdonald
The Origins of Intelligence - Luc Steels
The Place of Psyche in a Constructed World - Kenneth J. Gergen
The Principles of Psychology - William James
The Self as a Nonlinear Dynamical Structure-Process - Helena Knyazeva
The Third Contender: A Critical Examination of the Dynamicist Theory of Cognition - Chris Eliasmith
The Two Voices of Erich Fromm: The Prophetic and the Analytic - Michael Maccoby
Thinking About Thought: Consciousness, Life and Meaning - Piero Scaruffi
Three Approches to Cultural Psychology: A Critique - Carl Ratner
Towards a Cultural Psychology of the Self - Scott S. Blake
Transpersonal Psychology and the Paradigm Of Complexity - Sean M. Kelly
What Does Mysticism Have to Teach Us About Consciousness ? - Robert K.C. Foreman
Religion and Spirituality Papers
A Functional Approach to Mysticism - Arthur J. Deikman
A One-Scale Model of Holarchical Existence - Andrew P. Smith
A Science of Harmony and Gentle Action - F. David Peat
An Energy/Awareness/Information Interpretation of Physical and Mental Reality - Copthorne Macdonald
Airing Our Transpersonal Differences - Gerry Goddard
Autopoiesis and Sprituality - Vladimir Dimitrov and Bob Hodge
Between Order And Chaos - David Spangler
Bibles Do Not Equal Wisdom - Matthew Webb
Buddhist Meditation and Personal Construct Psychology - Phouttasone (Pilou) Thirakoul
Buddhist Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Thinking about 'Thoughts without a Thinker' - William S. Waldron
Complex Thinking in Eastern Thought: Non-Presence, Decenteredness and the Unspeakable - Robert Chia
Esoteric Anthropology: Devolutionary & Evolutionary Orientations in Perennial Philosophy - Sheldon R. Isenberg and Gene R. Thursby
Evolutionary Love - Charles Peirce
Gaia: The World Soul of Science and Religion - Doctress Neutopia
Genes, Memes and Megathemes - Mike Mack D and Naked Monk
Globalization, Spiritual Living & Gandhian Economics - Romesh Diwan
Hyperrealism: Unification of Science and Spirit - Ben Goertzel
Integral Science: Toward a Comprehensive Science of Inner & Outer Experience - Thomas J. McFarlane
Integrating The Big Bang: An Interview with Michael Murphy - Andrew Cohen
Life as a Laboratory - Piet Hut
Physics, Mysticism and the New Holographic Paradigm - Ken Wilber
Pragmatism, Critical Realism and the Cognitive Value of Religion and Science - J. Wesley Robbins
Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences - Abraham H. Maslow
Science and the Sacred: On Fundamentalism - Michael O'Callaghan
Science, Religion and God: A Story about Stories - Milton Dawes
Swedenborg and the Holographic Paradigm - Michael Talbot
Tao and the Aperspectival World - Eiichi Shimomisse
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life - Robert Alun Jones on Emile Durkheim
The Future Evolution of Man - Sri Aurobindo
The Man with Two Heads: Sheikh Ragip/Robert Frager - Craig Hamilton
The Search for Transcendent Values - Robert M. Young
The Self and Spirituality: A Variation
- Tim Dutcher-Wells
The Spirit of Jung - Rodney Ravenswood
Transpersonal Inspiration - Roberto Assagioli
Transpersonal Realities or Neurophysiological Illusions - Charles T. Tart
Using Synergy, Diversity and Wholeness to Create a Wisdom Culture - Tom Atlee
What I Believe - Alfred Korzybski
World As Lover; World As Self - Joanna Macy
Worship as Anti-Structure:
The Contribution of Victor Turner - J. Randall Nichols
Sociology & Social Science Papers
Application of Chaos Theory to Family Interactions - Matthijs Koopmans
Autopoietic Theory and Social Systems:
Theory and Practice - Randall Whitaker
Challenge of Sociocybernetics - Felix Geyer
Chaos and the Drama of Social Change - T.R.Young
Chaos Theory & Social Dynamics: Foundations of Postmodern Social Science - T. R. Young
Complex Organization and Niklas Luhmann's Sociology of Law - Wallace H. Provost
Complex Systems: The Role of Interactions - Robert Jervis
Complexity Theory and Social Research - David Byrne
Computer Models of Cultural Evolution - Nicholas Gessler
Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior - Stephen J. Read and Lynn C. Miller
Coping with Uncertainty: The Self-Organisation of Social Systems - Günter Kueppers
Cybernetics and Social Science: Theories and Research in Sociocybernetics - Felix Geyer
Discourse, Dynamics and Social Change - Jay Lemke
Ecosocieties: Societal Aspects of Biological Self-Production - Milan Zeleny
Evolutionary Perspectives on Simulations of Social Sytems - Carl Henning Reschke
Foundations of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems - Alex Viskovatoff
Full Circle: The Moral Force of Unified Science - Edward Haskell
In Search of Creativity: Beyond Individualism and Collectivism - Ronald E. Purser and Alfonso Montuori
Just How (Un)realistic are Evolutionary Algorithms as Representations of Social Processes ? - Edmund Chattoe
Memetics and the Multiple Futures of Racism - Caleb Rosado
Messy Futures & Global Brains - Gottfried Meyer-Kress
Modelling Social Systems as Complex: Towards a Social Simulation Meta-Model - Chris Goldspink
Modernity and the African Experience - A.O. Balcomb
Natural Being and a Coherent Society - Mae-Wan Ho
On Self Organization in Disaster Response to the Great Hanshin Earthquake - Louise K. Comfort
Operationalizing Self-Organization Theory for Social Science Research - David J. Krieger
Origin and Evolution of Culture and Creativity - Liane Gabora
Patterns, Flows, and Interrelationship - Molly Young Brown
Seeing Around Corners: The New Science of Artificial Societies - Jonathan Rauch
Self-Organizing Systems Research in the Social Sciences: Reconciling the Metaphors and the Models - Noshir S. Contractor
Simulating Collective Misbelief - Jim Doran
Social Capital and Civil Society - Francis Fukuyama
Social Order in Artificial Worlds - Michael W. Macy
Social Processes as Dynamical Processes: Qualitative Dynamical Systems Theory in Social Psychology - Paul A. Watters, Peter J. Ball & Stuart C. Carr
Social Structures and Chaos Theory - R. David Smith
The Art of Chaordic Leadership - Dee Hock
The Behavior of Crowds - Everett Dean Martin
The Coming Anarchy - Robert D. Kaplan
The Constitution of Society - Anthony Giddens
The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions - Carl Folke, Lowell Pritchard Jr., Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding and Uno Svedin
The Self-Organizing Information Society - Henk Goorhuis
Situationism (The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference) - Cass R. Sunstein
Topology, Metric and Dynamics of Social Systems - Jürgen Klüver and Jörn Schmidt
Towards A New Kind of Social Science: Study of Self-organization of Human Dynamics - Vladimir Dimitrov
Transcending Duality through Tensional Integrity: From Systems-versus-Networks to Tensegrity Organization - Anthony Judge
Twelve Characteristics of a Family System - Craig Chalquist
Up In Arms About Being Put Down - Christian de Quincey
Urban Dynamics - Jay Forrester
Use of Fuzzy Logic when Dealing with Social Complexity - Vladimir Dimitrov
What Disaster Response Management can learn from Chaos Theory - edited by Gus A. Koehler
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