'Social construction'is a central metaphor in contemporary social science, yet it is used and
understood in widely divergent and indeed conflicting ways by different thinkers. Most …

Our intuitive concept of the relations between brain and mind is increasingly challenged by
the scientific world view. Yet, although few neuroscientists openly endorse Cartesian …

Topics expected to influence personalized medicine (PM), where medical decisions,
practices, and treatments are tailored to the individual patient, are reviewed. Lack of …

This paper is about designing spaces enabling processes of collaborative knowledge
creation and innovation. It is a theoretical paper on the role of artifacts as enablers for …

Weak emergence is the view that a system's macro properties can be explained by its micro
properties but only in an especially complicated way. This paper explains a version of weak …

The Group Mind Thesis-understood as the claim that groups as a whole can be the subjects
of mental states-was a popular idea in the intellectual landscape of the late nineteenth and …

Living organisms persist by virtue of complex interactions among many components
organized into dynamic, environment-responsive networks that span multiple scales and …

Cognitive radio provides a basis for addressing the practical issue of spectrum scarcity. This
issue has been raised due to the continuing advances in wireless technology, which has led …

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the postulation of irreducible, distributed
cognitive systems (or group minds as they are also known in the literature) is necessary for …

In this paper, we put forward a new account of emergence called “transformational
emergence”. Such an account captures a variety of emergence that can be considered as …