After half a century of cognitive revolution we remain far from agreement about what
cognition is and what cognition does. It was once thought that these questions could wait …

Valence is half of the pair of properties that constitute core affect, the foundation of emotion.
But what is valence, and where is it found in the natural world? Currently, this question …

Within the cognitive sciences, cognition tends to be interpreted from an anthropocentric
perspective, involving a stringent set of human capabilities. Instead, we suggest that …

The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-
based interpretation of private property. Accordingly, nature is not attributed any inherent …

It is becoming clear that to truly understand what it is to be human, focusing scientific efforts
on the mind alone is insufficient. We are embodied minds, living and acting in a world full of …

Subjective experiences potentially pre—exist in the Universe, in analogy to a tree
thatpotentially pre—exists in the seed. However, the issue ofhow a spe—cific subjective …

Abstract Knowledge and the communication of knowledge are critical for self-sustaining
organizations comprised of people and the tools and machines that extend peoples' …

It is difficult for large and geographically dispersed organisations to manage personal
knowledge for easy discovery and sharing, especially in the areas of identification, indexing …

Abstract Paper type: Conceptual perspective. Background (s): Physics, biology,
epistemology Perspectives: Theory of autopoietic systems, Popperian evolutionary …

An environment conducting a flux of energy and materials between temporally or spatially
separated sources and sinks may become more complexly structured due to the emergence …