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Published Works
- The Science of Self-Organization and Adaptivity (1999) (569)
- Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics (2001) (446)
- The evolution of complexity (1999) (301)
- Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: Algorithms to Develop a Collective Mental Map (1999) (275)
- The Growth of Structural and Functional Complexity during Evolution (1999) (225)
- When Can We Call a System Self-Organizing? (2003) (212)
- Complexity and Philosophy (2006) (201)
- Variation in the Contextuality of Language: An Empirical Measure (2002) (196)
- A cognitive-systemic reconstruction of Maslow's theory of self-actualization (1992) (186)
- Self-organization, Emergence and the Architecture of Complexity (1989) (166)
- Formality of Language: definition, measurement and behavioral determinants (1999) (154)
- Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism I: Definition and components (2016) (142)
- Principles of Systems and Cybernetics: an evolutionary perspective (1991) (128)
- The Meaning of Self-organization in Computing (2003) (125)
- Complexity and Self-Organization (2021) (120)
- How can we think the complex (2004) (115)
- What makes a meme successful? Selection criteria for cultural evolution (1998) (107)
- Why is Open Access Development so Successful? Stigmergic organization and the economics of information (2006) (101)
- The Global Superorganism: An Evolutionary-cybernetic Model of the Emerging Network Society (2007) (99)
- Neurons, Viscose Fluids, Freshwater Polyp Hydra-and Self-Organizing Information Systems (2003) (94)
- Selection of organization at the social level: Obstacles and facilitators of metasystem transitions (1995) (89)
- The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: from metaphor to model (1996) (85)
- Self-organization in Communicating Groups: The Emergence of Coordination, Shared References and Collective Intelligence (2013) (85)
- Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution: from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain (2007) (81)
- Selfish''Memes and the Evolution of Cooperation (1992) (78)
- (Meta)systems as constraints on variation— a classification and natural history of metasystem transitions (1995) (72)
- Complexity and Information Overload in Society: why increasing efficiency leads to decreasing control (2002) (67)
- Towards an intelligent network for matching offer and demand: From the sharing economy to the global brain (2017) (64)
- Hebbian algorithms for a digital library recommendation system (2002) (62)
- Objective, Subjective and Intersubjective Selectors of Knowledge (1997) (60)
- Causality as distinction conservation: a theory of predictability, reversibility, and time order (1989) (58)
- Evolution of Culture, Memetics (2009) (57)
- FORMULATING THE PROBLEM OF PROBLEM-FORMULATION (1988) (56)
- The Emergence of Distributed Cognition : a conceptual framework (2004) (56)
- Selection Criteria for the Evolution of Knowledge (2000) (53)
- Talking nets: a multiagent connectionist approach to communication and trust between individuals. (2006) (53)
- Conceptions of a Global Brain : An Historical Review (2006) (52)
- Getting Things Done: The Science behind Stress-Free Productivity (2008) (50)
- A system to restructure hypertext networks into valid user models (1998) (50)
- The Global Brain as a model of the future information society: An introduction to the special issue (2017) (45)
- Self-organization of complex , intelligent systems : an action ontology for transdisciplinary integration (2010) (44)
- Cultural Evolution and Memetics (2008) (44)
- Global Progress I: Empirical Evidence for ongoing Increase in Quality-of-life (2000) (43)
- Self-steering and cognition in complex systems : toward a new cybernetics (1990) (43)
- Evolution, Selfishness and Cooperation (1992) (40)
- Return to Eden ? Promises and Perils on the Road to a Global Superintelligence (2014) (40)
- RELATIONAL CLOSURE: a mathematical concept for distinction- making and complexity analysis (1990) (40)
- Advantages and limitations of formal expression (1999) (39)
- Algorithms for the self-organization of distributed, multi-user networks (1996) (39)
- from entailment meshes via semantic nets to learning webs (2001) (39)
- Mining Associative Meanings from the Web: from word disambiguation to the global brain (2001) (38)
- Fitness as Default: the evolutionary basis of cognitive complexity reduction (1994) (35)
- World Futures: the Journal of General Evolution (1995) (34)
- Algorithms for the self-organisation of distributed, multi-user networks. Possible application to the future World Wide Web (1996) (34)
- Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism II: Varieties and evolution (2016) (33)
- Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism : components , varieties and applications (2014) (33)
- Philosophy and Complexity (2007) (32)
- The Global Brain as a New Utopia (2002) (30)
- Mobilization Systems: technologies for motivating and coordinating human action (2013) (29)
- - 1-Mediator Evolution : a general scenario for the origin of dynamical hierarchies (2003) (29)
- Modelling Emergence (2006) (28)
- Design of a Hypermedia Interface Translating between Associative and Formal Representations (1991) (27)
- Complexity and evolution, by Max Pettersson, The major transitions in evolution, by John Maynard Smith and Ers Szathmry, The origins of life from the birth of life to the origin of language, by John Maynard Smith and Ers Szathmry (2000) (24)
- Foundations and Methodology for an Evolutionary World View: A Review of the Principia Cybernetica Project (2000) (23)
- Five Questions on Complexity (2007) (23)
- "Book and Software Reviews-The Complexity of Evolution: Review of" The Evolution of Complexity: The Violet Book of Einstein Meets Magritte" (1999) (23)
- Global Progress II: Evolutionary Mechanisms and their Side-effects (2000) (22)
- Publications on complex, evolving systems: A citation-based survey (1997) (22)
- Relating covariation information to causal dimensions through principles of contrast and invariance (1995) (21)
- A Short Introduction to the Principia Cybernetica Project (1991) (21)
- Classical and Non-Classical Representations in Physics (1990) (21)
- Structuring Knowledge in a Network of Concepts (1991) (21)
- What makes a meme successful (1998) (21)
- A brain in a vat cannot break out: why the singularity must be extended, embedded and embodied (2012) (20)
- COGNITIVE LEVELS OF EVOLUTION: from pre-rational to meta-rational (1999) (20)
- Operationalization of Meme Selection Criteria : Methodologies to Empirically Test Memetic Predictions (2002) (20)
- Challenge Propagation: a new paradigm for modeling distributed intelligence (2012) (19)
- Autonomy and Cognition as the Maintenance and Processing of Distinctions (2000) (19)
- A Tale of Challenge , Adventure and Mystery : towards an agent-based unification of narrative and scientific models of behavior (2011) (19)
- From Human Computation to the Global Brain: The Self-Organization of Distributed Intelligence (2013) (18)
- Foundations for a Mathematical Model of the Global Brain : architecture , components , and specifications (2012) (18)
- COPING WITH COMPLEXITY : concepts and principles for a support system (1991) (18)
- The Economy as a Distributed, Learning Control System (1997) (18)
- The Self-Organization of Time and Causality: Steps Towards Understanding the Ultimate Origin (2010) (18)
- Challenge Propagation : Towards a theory of distributed intelligence and the global brain (2014) (15)
- Stigmergy as a generic mechanism for coordination: definition, varieties and aspects (2011) (15)
- Classical and nonclassical representations in physics: physics 1 (1990) (15)
- A STRUCTURAL LANGUAGE FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS (1990) (14)
- Cybernetic principles of aging and rejuvenation: the buffering- challenging strategy for life extension. (2014) (13)
- Protocol Requirements for Self-organizing Artifacts: Towards an Ambient Intelligence (2004) (13)
- A NEW TRANSDISCIPLINARY PARADIGM FOR THE STUDY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS (1990) (13)
- Dynamic and adaptive structuring of the World Wide Web based on user navigation patterns (1997) (12)
- From Quantity to Quality of Life: rK selection and human development (2004) (12)
- Chemical Organization Theory as a modeling framework for self-organization , autopoiesis and resilience (2015) (12)
- Non-Rational Cognitive Processes as Changes of Distinctions (1992) (12)
- The Evolution and Development of the Universe (2009) (12)
- World-Wide Web: a distributed hypermedia paradigm for global networking (1994) (11)
- Mind outside Brain: a radically non-dualist foundation for distributed cognition (2016) (10)
- Preattributional and attributional determinants of emotions and expectations (1992) (10)
- Measuring global progress through subjective well-being (2001) (10)
- The offer network protocol: Mathematical foundations and a roadmap for the development of a global brain (2017) (10)
- Distributed Intelligence Technologies: Present and Future Applications (2017) (9)
- Chemical Organization Theory as a universal modelling framework for self-organization, autopoiesis and resilience (2015) (9)
- Classical and nonclassical representations in physics II: quantum mechanics (1990) (9)
- Electronic Networking for Philosophical Development in the Principia Cybernetica Project (1993) (8)
- a cybernetic perspective on the new science of the mind (2008) (7)
- - 1-Characteristics and Problems of the Gifted : neural propagation depth and flow motivation as a model of intelligence and creativity (2006) (7)
- Tachyons imply the existence of a priviledged frame (1985) (7)
- Towards a General Framework for Modelling Representation Changes (1986) (7)
- Synopsys of the Principia Cybernetica Project (1993) (7)
- Goal Directedness, Chemical Organizations, and Cybernetic Mechanisms (2021) (7)
- Life is an Adventure! An agent-based reconciliation of narrative and scientific worldviews (2010) (6)
- Imprinting and the Development of Face Recognition: From Chick to Man (1992) (6)
- Chemical Organization Theory as a universal modeling framework for interaction , self-organization , and autopoiesis (2015) (5)
- The meaning and origin of goal-directedness: a dynamical systems perspective (2022) (5)
- Towards a theory of Metasystem transitions: Introduction to the special issue (1995) (5)
- Evolutionary Foundations for Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ethics (1991) (4)
- The role of self-maintaining resilient reaction networks in the origin and evolution of life (2022) (4)
- Towards an Analytic Framework for System Resilience Based on Reaction Networks (2022) (4)
- Foundations of ArtScience: Formulating the Problem (2020) (4)
- A distributed model for tacit design knowledge exchange (1994) (4)
- TALKING NETS Model of Communication 1 Talking Nets : A Multi-Agent Connectionist Approach to Communication and Trust between Individuals (2006) (4)
- Improving Memetic Evolution in Hypertext and the WWW (1998) (4)
- Development and Publication of Systems Knowledge on the Internet (1996) (4)
- From Communication between Individuals to Collective Beliefs (2004) (3)
- Distributed (design) knowledge exchange (2007) (3)
- Formal Foundations for an Adaptive Metarepresentation (1987) (2)
- Transcending the Conceptual Symbolic Code (2014) (2)
- A Nodal Growth Algorithm for Concept Discovery (2006) (2)
- The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain : from metaphor to model The Web as an Associative Memory (1996) (2)
- Finding words through spreading activation (1996) (2)
- Vicky Prefers Voltaire to Vogue: Obstacles to the Self-Actualisation of Gifted Women Within Social Systems (2019) (2)
- Challenge Propagation: towards a mathematical theory of distributed intelligence and the Global Brain (2012) (2)
- Trust in Communication between Individuals : A Connectionist Approach (2005) (2)
- Entanglement, Symmetry Breaking and Collapse: Correspondences Between Quantum and Self-Organizing Dynamics (2021) (2)
- The GBI Vision : past , present and future context of global brain research (2011) (2)
- Return to Eden ? Promises and Perils on the Road to an Omnipotent Global Intelligence (2013) (1)
- Distributed Intelligence Technologies: a survey of future applications and implications of the Global Brain (2013) (1)
- UNCONSCIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS Applying a connectionist model to design knowledge exchange (2004) (1)
- Behavioral and Emotional Mechanisms Co-opted for Social Control : Social Systems Programming II (2017) (1)
- Workbook of the 1 st Principia Cybernetica Workshop (2007) (1)
- Symmetry, Potentiality and Reversibility (2011) (1)
- Ethics and Complexity: Why Standard Ethical Frameworks Cannot Cope with Socio-Technological Change (2022) (1)
- Communications: On a Proposal for the Creation of an International Network for Complexity Research (1989) (1)
- Towards an anticipation control theory of mind (2005) (1)
- Transcending the Rational Symbol System : how Information and Communication Technology integrates science , art , philosophy and spirituality into a global brain (2018) (1)
- POLEMICS IN SYSTEMS RESEARCH (1992) (1)
- Foundations of ArtScience: Formulating the Problem (2020) (1)
- Transcending the rational symbol system (2021) (0)
- [Book Chapter] (Unpublished) (2004) (0)
- [Book Chapter] (in Press) (2006) (0)
- Evolutionary Psychology (2021) (0)
- Noospheric consciousness: integrating neural models of consciousness and of the web (2021) (0)
- Complexity and Evolution (2023) (0)
- Title : Nodal Growth Algorithms for the Learning of Invariant Representations (0)
- Analysis of Network structures to support scientific collaboration Analyse van netwerkstructuren voor de ondersteuning van wetenschappelijke samenwerking (2005) (0)
- Collective Consciousness Supported by the Web: Healthy or Toxic? (2021) (0)
- The Complexity of Evolution the Conceptual Basis of the Evolution of Complexity the Evolution of Complexity (0)
- A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness (2023) (0)
- Social Systems Programming I : The Autopoiesis of Socially Constructed Distinctions and Rules (2017) (0)
- The social construction of shared concepts : empirical study and computer simulation of a distributed cognitive process (2003) (0)
- Foundations of ArtScience: towards a synthesis of artistic creation and scientific investigation (2018) (0)
- Complexity and evolution, by Max Pettersson, The major transitions in evolution, by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry, The origins of life from the birth of life to the origin of language, by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry (2000) (0)
- The Global Brain Institute Vision : past , present and future context of global brain research (2013) (0)
- The Human Takeover: A Call for a Venture into an Existential Opportunity (2018) (0)
- Governing the Future’s Power System: toward a method of guided self-organisation for the Smart Grid (2015) (0)
- My Evolutionary Trajectory : notes towards an intellectual autobiography (2012) (0)
- Transcending the Rational Symbol System : how ICT integrates science , art , philosophy and spirituality into a global brain (2018) (0)
- The offer network protocol: Mathematical foundations and a roadmap for the development of a global brain (2016) (0)
- The Self-Organization of Distributed Cognition : a connectionist approach (2005) (0)
- From Genetic to Memetic Fitness: quality of life as a non-genetic selection criterion (2003) (0)
- 17-02-27 Futures of a shared memory (2017) (0)
- Technologies : present and future applications (2015) (0)
- A connectionist system to restructure hypertext networks into valid user models (2015) (0)
- Communication and Collective Beliefs 1 from Communication between Individuals to Collective Beliefs (0)
- Making Thoughts Explicit : advantages and limitations of formal expression (2000) (0)
- The dark side of thinking through other minds (2020) (0)
- Mind Outside Brain (2018) (0)
- Effective Thinking. A concise survey of elements, mechanisms and methods (2021) (0)
- Review panel members who reviewed manuscripts in 2008 for Expert Systems (2008) (0)
- The Continuity of Embodied Identity: a commentary on "Software Immortals-Science or Faith" (2012) (0)
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