This is a book about (among other things) information and entropy, cybernetics and
thermodynamics, mailing lists and talk shows, the electronic Ummah and chaos theory, web …

There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life
are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book …

This article presents theory and research on the scientific study of emotion that emphasizes
the importance of coherence as an optimal psychophysiological state. A dynamic systems …

Context A key goal of landscape ecology is to understand landscape ecological processes
across space and through time, with reference to the central organizing principles of nature …

Analogs of fundamental physical phenomena can be used in two ways. One way consists in
reproducing specific aspects of the classical or quantum gravity of quantum fields in curved …

Analyzing the worldviews embedded in the great works of human culture can teach us a
great deal about our own culture and about how to more effectively address the modern …

Objectives: This study aims to contribute to a scientific understanding of intuition, a process
by which information normally outside the range of conscious awareness is perceived by the …

This book is designed to become a foundational text for the new science of AI safety
engineering. While specific predictions regarding the consequences of an intelligence …

This book aims to synthesize different directions in knowledge studies into a unified theory of
knowledge and knowledge processes. It explicates important relations between knowledge …

During the past three decades investigators have unveiled a number of deep connections
between physical information and black holes whose consequences for ordinary systems go …