Our brain is not a" stand alone" information processing organ: it acts as a central part of our
integral nervous system with recurrent information exchange with the entire organism and …

In this fascinating journey to the edge of science, Vidal takes on big philosophical questions:
Does our universe have a beginning and an end or is it cyclic? Are we alone in the …

Fifty years after serious scientific research began in the field of exobiology, and forty years
after serious historical research began on the subject of extraterrestrial life, this paper …

Philosophy lacks criteria to evaluate its philosophical theories. To fill this gap, this essay
introduces nine criteria to compare worldviews, classified in three broad categories …

The recent developments of advanced models of unified physics have brought a deeper
understanding of the fundamental nature of space, time, energy and matter. It is becoming …

The emerging science of evolutionary developmental (“evo devo”) biology can aid us in
thinking about our universe as both an evolutionary system, where most processes are …

Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the founding fathers of the modern evolutionary synthesis,
once famously stated that “nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of evolution” …

This article proposes a variational approach to describe the evolution of organization of
complex systems from first principles, as increased efficiency of physical action. Most simply …

Quantity of organization in complex networks here is measured as the inverse of the
average sum of physical actions of all elements per unit motion multiplied by the Planck's …

This paper offers a general systems definition of the phrase “evolutionary development” and
an introduction to its application to autopoetic (self-reproducing) complex systems, including …