Francis Heylighen - Publications

Publications

Heylighen published over 100 papers and a book. A selection:

• 2013. Self-organization in Communicating Groups: the emergence of coordination, shared references and collective intelligence. In A. Massip-Bonet & A. Bastardas-Boada (Eds.), Complexity perspectives on language, communication, and society, (pp. 117–150). Springer.
• 2011. Conceptions of a Global Brain: an historical review. Evolution: Cosmic, Biological, and Social, eds. Grinin, L. E., Carneiro, R. L., Korotayev A. V., Spier F. (pp. 274 – 289). Uchitel Publishing.
• 2008. Cultural evolution and memetics. Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, B. Meyers, ed.: Springer
• 2007. The Global Superorganism: an evolutionary-cybernetic model of the emerging network society. In: Social Evolution & History. Vol 6 No. 1,p. 58-119
• 2007. Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution: from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain. In: Globalization as an Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change. edited by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William Thompson, London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-77361-4. p. 286-335.
• 2001. The science of self-organization and adaptivity. The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems 5 (3), 253-280
• 2001. Cybernetics and second order cybernetics, with C Joslyn. Encyclopedia of physical science & technology 4, 155-170
• 1999. Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: algorithms to develop a collective mental map. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 5 (3), 253-280
• 1999. The growth of structural and functional complexity during evolution. The evolution of complexity, 17-44
• 1992. A cognitive‐systemic reconstruction of Maslow's theory of self‐actualization. Behavioral Science 37 (1), 39-58