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Cybernetic Principles of Aging and Rejuvenation: the buffering-challenging strategy for life extension
Francis Heylighen
Aging is analyzed as the spontaneous loss of adaptivity and increase in fragility that characterizes dynamic systems. Cybernetics defines the general regulatory mechanisms that a s…
The Evolution and Development of the Universe
Clement Vidal, Charles Auffray, Alex H. Blin +19
This document is the Special Issue of the First International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe (EDU 2008). Please refer to the preface and introduction f…
Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution: from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain
Francis Heylighen
Evolution is presented as a trial-and-error process that produces a progressive accumulation of knowledge. At the level of technology, this leads to ephemeralization, i.e. ever inc…
Five Questions on Complexity
Francis Heylighen
This introductory paper is structured in the form of an "interview", where the author answers the following questions: Why did you begin working with complex systems? How would you…
Why is Open Access Development so Successful? Stigmergic organization and the economics of information
Francis Heylighen
The explosive development of "free" or "open source" information goods contravenes the conventional wisdom that markets and commercial organizations are necessary to efficiently su…
Complexity and Philosophy
Francis Heylighen, Paul Cilliers, Carlos Gershenson
The science of complexity is based on a new way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy underlying Newtonian science, which is based on reductionism, determinis…