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  1. Why Emergence and Self-Organization Are Conceptually Simple, Common and Natural

    Article • Complexities, March 2026, MDPI AG

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  2. Why Uncertainty Is Essential for Consciousness: Local Prospect Theory vs. Predictive Processing

    Article • Entropy, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  3. Curiosity, Awe and Wonder: The Emotions that Open Our Mind

    Article • Foundations of Science, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  4. The Local Prospect Theory of Subjective Experience: A Soft Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness

    Article • Journal of Consciousness Studies, December 2024, Imprint Academic Ltd

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  5. Chemical Organization Theory as a General Modeling Framework for Self-Sustaining Systems

    Article • Systems, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  6. Relational Agency: A New Ontology for Coevolving Systems

    Article • August 2023, The MIT Press

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  7. Modeling autopoiesis and cognition with reaction networks

    Article • Biosystems, August 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  8. Complexity and Evolution

    Article • Entropy, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  9. A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  10. Evolutionary Psychology

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  11. The role of self-maintaining resilient reaction networks in the origin and evolution of life

    Article • Biosystems, September 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  12. The meaning and origin of goal-directedness: a dynamical systems perspective

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  13. Ethics and Complexity: Why Standard Ethical Frameworks Cannot Cope with Socio-Technological Change

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  14. Towards an Analytic Framework for System Resilience Based on Reaction Networks

    Article • Complexity, January 2022, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  15. Goal Directedness, Chemical Organizations, and Cybernetic Mechanisms

    Article • Entropy, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  16. Noospheric consciousness

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  17. Transcending the Rational Symbol System

    Article • May 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  18. Entanglement, Symmetry Breaking and Collapse: Correspondences Between Quantum and Self-Organizing Dynamics

    Article • Foundations of Science, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  19. Evolutionary Psychology

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  20. Collective Consciousness Supported by the Web: Healthy or Toxic?

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  21. Cybernetics

    Article • October 2020, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  22. Foundations of ArtScience: Formulating the Problem

    Article • Foundations of Science, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  23. The dark side of thinking through other minds

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  24. Vicky Prefers Voltaire to Vogue: Obstacles to the Self-Actualisation of Gifted Women Within Social Systems

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  25. Mind Outside Brain

    Article • September 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  26. The Human Takeover: A Call for a Venture into an Existential Opportunity

    Article • Information, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  27. Philosophy and complexity

    Article • November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  28. The Global Brain as a model of the future information society: An introduction to the special issue

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  29. Towards an intelligent network for matching offer and demand: From the sharing economy to the global brain

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  30. The offer network protocol: Mathematical foundations and a roadmap for the development of a global brain

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  31. Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism I: Definition and components

    Article • Cognitive Systems Research, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  32. Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism II: Varieties and evolution

    Article • Cognitive Systems Research, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  33. Evolution of Culture, Memetics

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  34. Cybernetic Principles of Aging and Rejuvenation: The Buffering- Challenging Strategy for Life Extension

    Article • Current Aging Science, July 2014, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  35. Evolutionary Psychology

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  36. From Human Computation to the Global Brain: The Self-Organization of Distributed Intelligence

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  37. Self-organization in Communicating Groups: The Emergence of Coordination, Shared References and Collective Intelligence

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  38. Protocol Requirements for Self-organizing Artifacts: Towards an Ambient Intelligence

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos Gershenson, Professor Francis Heylighen

  39. Life is an Adventure! An Agent-Based Reconciliation of Narrative and Scientific Worldviews

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  40. Symmetry, Potentiality and Reversibility

    Article • Foundations of Science, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  41. The Self-Organization of Time and Causality: Steps Towards Understanding the Ultimate Origin

    Article • Foundations of Science, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  42. Felicitometrie: geluk in een progressief evolutionair wereldbeeld

    Article • Ethiek en Maatschappij, April 2009, Ghent University

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  43. Stimuleren van geluk en sociale vooruitgang: een libertair paternalistische benadering

    Article • Ethiek en Maatschappij, April 2009, Ghent University

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  44. Evolution of Culture, Memetics

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  45. Getting Things Done: The Science behind Stress-Free Productivity

    Article • Long Range Planning, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  46. Distributed (design) knowledge exchange

    Article • AI & Society, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  47. Talking nets: A multiagent connectionist approach to communication and trust between individuals.

    Article • Psychological Review, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  48. Neurons, viscose fluids, freshwater polyp hydra-and self-organizing information systems

    Article • IEEE Intelligent Systems, July 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  49. When Can We Call a System Self-Organizing?

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos Gershenson, Professor Francis Heylighen

  50. Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics

    Article • January 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  51. Article • Foundations of Science, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  52. Bootstrapping knowledge representations

    Article • Kybernetes, July 2001, Emerald

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  53. Complexity and evolution, by Max Pettersson, The major transitions in evolution, by John Maynard Smith and E�rs Szathm�ry, The origins of life from the birth of life to the origin of language, by John Maynard Smith and E�rs Szathm�ry

    Article • Complexity, September 2000, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  54. Global Progress II: Evolutionary Mechanisms and their Side-effects

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  55. Global Progress I: Empirical Evidence for ongoing Increase in Quality-of-life

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  56. Article • Foundations of Science, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  57. Article • Foundations of Science, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  58. Article • Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  59. Evolutionary complexity

    Article • Complexity, July 1998, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  60. A system to restructure hypertext networks into valid user models

    Article • New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  61. Publications on complex, evolving systems: A citation-based survey

    Article • Complexity, May 1997, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  62. (Meta)systems as constraints on variation— a classification and natural history of metasystem transitions

    Article • World Futures, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  63. Selection of organization at the social level: Obstacles and facilitators of metasystem transitions

    Article • World Futures, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  64. Towards a theory of Metasystem transitions: Introduction to the special issue

    Article • World Futures, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  65. Relating covariation information to causal dimensions through principles of contrast and invariance

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, July 1995, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  66. Preattributional and attributional determinants of emotions and expectations

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, July 1992, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  67. POLEMICS IN SYSTEMS RESEARCH

    Article • International Journal of General Systems, June 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  68. A cognitive-systemic reconstruction of maslow's theory of self-actualization

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, January 1992, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  69. Non-Rational Cognitive Processes as Changes of Distinctions

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  70. Design of a hypermedia interface translating between associative and formal representations

    Article • International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, October 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  71. Modelling emergence

    Article • World Futures, September 1991, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  72. A STRUCTURAL LANGUAGE FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS

    Article • International Journal of General Systems, December 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  73. CLASSICAL AND NONCLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN PHYSICS II: QUANTUM MECHANICS

    Article • Cybernetics & Systems, September 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  74. CLASSICAL AND NONCLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN PHYSICS: PHYSICS 1

    Article • Cybernetics & Systems, July 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  75. Communications

    Article • Kybernetes, May 1989, Emerald

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  76. CAUSALITY AS DISTINCTION CONSERVATION. A THEORY OF PREDICTABILITY, REVERSIBILITY, AND TIME ORDER

    Article • Cybernetics & Systems, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  77. Tachyons imply the existence of a priviledged frame

    Article • Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, December 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  78. Hebbian algorithms for a digital library recommendation system

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  79. 6. Mobilization Systems: Technologies for Motivating and Coordinating Human Action Francis Heylighen, Iavor Kostov, & Mixel Kiemen 115

    Article • Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Professor Francis Heylighen