The Self-Organizing Universe - Francis Heylighen
Francis HeylighenResearch on the emergence and evolution of complex systems—and in particular mind, life, and society. Making sense of complexity and confusion by showing how everything eventually fits together.
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Evolution and the Complexity of Value
I just finished a chapter (reference below) for a book on “AI and Human Values”. This paper elaborates on a talk I gave on this topic, and some Substack posts I wrote earlier on sentience in Chatbots. Below is a non-technical summary of the...
Complexity Science and Contemplation
I recently had a conversation with Joshua Sunter for the Complexity Science and Contemplative Studies Consortium about the connections between complexity science, consciousness, meditation, cybernetics and spirituality. That allowed me to i...
Collective Thinking: Lessons from the Noosphere Lab
We tend to imagine thinking as something that happens inside an individual mind.
A person encounters a problem, recalls relevant knowledge, explores possible solutions, combines ideas, and eventually reaches a conclusion. Intelligence, on...
How Can We Think Collectively?
One of the central ideas running through my recent posts is that intelligence is not confined to individual brains.
Ideas live in a larger ecology.
They spread from person to person, combine with other ideas, mutate, compete, reinforce on...
Why “Minimizing Suffering” Is Not a Good Foundation for Ethics
A growing number of people argue that the most universal moral principle is simple:
Avoid suffering wherever it might occur.
At first sight, this seems obviously right. Who would want to cause suffering? And if there is even a small cha...
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Francis Heylighen is complexity scientist researching evolution, self-organization and distributed intelligence. He is a professor at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), where he directs the CLEA center for transdisciplinary studies.
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