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Updates 4.81 to December 2002:

New Links

An Earth-Based Ethic for Humanity - Stan Rowe
An Introduction to Neural Networks - Textbook by Ben Kröse and Patrick van der Smagt (postscript)
Conditions for Self-Organizing in Human Systems - Glenda Holladay Eoyang
Ecospheric Ethics - the ecosphere as the source of life
Genetic Algorithm as Decision Support Tool - Glenda Eoyang
How Julie's Brain Learns - Eric Jensen
Meme-Gene Coevolution - Susan Blackmore
Principles for Implicit Learning - Axel Cleeremans
Quantum Jumps, EEQT and the Five Platonic Fractals - Ark Jadczyk and R. Oberg
Satisficing and Optimality - Michael Byron
The Vacuum, Light Speed and the Redshift - Barry Setterfield
Towards a Physics of Subjectivity - Stephen Jones

Updated Pages

Introductions and Essays - quotations added.

Updates 4.81 to November 2002:

New Links

Aros Magic - large fractals (Win/Mac)
Artificial Chemistry - Peter Dittrich
Aspects of Modelling and Simulation of Genetic Algorithms: A Formal Approach - Sam Sandqvist
Living Ethics: The Way of Wholeness - Donivan Bessinger
Metaphysics - investigating systems ontology
Neural Network Software for Classification - KDnuggets
Psychotherapy Integration: An Assimilative, Psychodynamic Approach - George Stricker and Jerold R. Gold
Sociocracy - governance by consent not consensus
Systems Thinking - animated overview by Clinton Andrews and Carl Henn
The Nature of the Judicial Process - Benjamin N. Cardozo
The Spirit of Jung - Rodney Ravenswood
The Trend Cellular Automata Programming Environment - Hui-Hsien Chou

Updated Links

Fractal Awareness Governance Model - Jules Ruis (DOS) new URL
Science of Psychology - resources (new URL)

Updates 4.81 to October 2002:

New Links

Cultural Creatives - the new progressives
Ethics: A General Semantics Perspective - Bruce Kodish
From Evolutionary Epistemology Via Selection Theory to a Sociology of Scientific Validity - Donald T. Campbell
From Genetic Algorithms to Efficient Optimization - Deniz Yuret
Making Up the Mind - Oliver Sacks
Psychodynamics of Political Correctness - Howard S. Schwartz
Seeking Common Ground: Piaget and Skinner on the Nature of Learning - Pat Duffy Hutcheon

Updated Pages

Home - Internet Scout Report award added

Updated Links

Cellang - J. Dana Eckart (new URL)
Emptying Your Cup: Non-Verbal Awareness and General-Semantics - Bruce I. Kodish (new URL)

Updates 4.81 to September 2002:

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An Emerging Modelling Method for Artificial Neural Networks - Jari Vaario
Assessment of Personal Goal Hierarchies - Marlene Winell and Donald H. Ford
Complexity and Functionality: A Search for the Where, the When, and the How - Piet Hut, Brian Goodwin and Stuart Kauffman
Computational Mechanics of Cellular Automata - James E. Hanson
Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity - Steven Phillips
Constructivist Neural Network Models of Cognitive Development - Gert Westermann
Extended Concept of Knowledge for Evolutionary Epistemology and Biosemiotics - Tommi Vehkavaara
Life as a Laboratory - Piet Hut
Markets and Antimarkets in the World Economy - Manuel De Landa
Polyarchy : A Paradigm - beyond dysfunctional statism
Self-Organizing Maps in Natural Language Processing - Timo Honkela
The Geology of Morals - Manuel De Landa
Uniformity and Variability - Manuel De Landa
Various Aspects of Artificial and Biological Neural Networks - Iris Ginzburg

Updates 4.81 to August 2002:

New Links

A Farm Boy's Testament to the United Nations - Larry Barnhart
Application of a Living Systems Perspective on Human Experience - Elaine R. Parent
Cellular Automata and Other Cellular Systems: Design & Evolution - Mathieu Capcarrere
Evolutionary Alogrithms for Dynamic Optimzation Problems - Jürgen Branke
Excavating the Emergent Levels of Cybersystemics - Gary Boyd
From Simple Associations to Systematic Reasoning - Lokendra Shastri and Venkat Ajjanagadde
Genetic Algorithms Warehouse - Applications
On the Evolutionary and Behavioral Dynamics of Social Coordination: Models and Theoretical Aspects - Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Opening Up Closure: Semiotics Across Scales - Jay Lemke
Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead - Christopher Chase
Sociocultural Approaches to Learning and Development: A Vygotskian Framework - Vera John-Steiner and Holbrook Mahn
Systems and Systemic Theory - course notes by Gary Boyd

Updates 4.81 to July 2002:

New Pages

Evolving an Integral Ecology of Mind - paper on mental coevolution

New Links

A Developmental Contextual View of Human Devcelopment - Richard M. Lerner
Basins of Attraction in Network Dynamics: A Conceptual Framework for Biomolecular Networks - Andrew Wuensche
Buddhist Virtue Ethics and the Oneness of Practice and Attainment - KnutJohan Øen
Cellular Automata - Tim Tyler
Full Circle: The Moral Force of Unified Science - Edward Haskell
Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism - Martha Nussbaum
Partners in Life: Syntony at Work - Kathia and Alexander Laszlo
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline - Bernard Williams
Self-Organization and the Dreaming Brain - David Kahn and J. Allan Hobson
Structural Cybernetics: An Overview - N. Dean Meyer
The Biological Basis of Morality - Edward O. Wilson
The Demotion of Consciousness: From HOTs to BRRs - Kent Van Cleave
The Need to Belong: Rediscovering Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Norman Kunc

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Emergence and Evolution - Constraints on Form (illustrations added)

Updated Links

Cellular Automata - comp.theory.cell-automata newsgroup (new URL)

Updates 4.81 to June 2002:

New Pages

Holarchic Meta-Ethics and Complexity Science - essay on normative behaviour

New Links

Cafun Simulator - complexity toolkit by André Homeyer
Virtue Ethics as a Foundation for Business Ethics: A MacIntyre-Based Critique - John Dobson

Updated Links

Vector Automata - John S. Stokes (new URL)

End of Update 4.81

Update 4.8 May 2002:

New Links

An Introduction to Complex Systems - Torsten Reil
Better Than The Best: The Power of Cooperation - Tad Hogg and Bernardo A. Huberman
Downward Causation: The Consciousness Revolution in Science - Roger Sperry
On the Implicit & on the Artificial: Morphogenesis & Emergent Aesthetics in Autonomous Collective Systems - Vitorino Ramos
Reworking Success: Tools for Creating New Communities - Robert Theobald
Reasons, Robots and the Extended Mind - Andy Clark
Seeing Around Corners: The New Science of Artificial Societies - Jonathan Rauch
The Machine and Dysergy Prime - N. Arthur Coulter

Updated Pages

Self-Organizing Systems FAQ - version 2.8
Complex Systems Glossary - additions and revisions

Updated Links

Noetica - cognitive psychology (new URL)

End of Update 4.8

Update 4.73 April 2002:

New Links

A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development - Nicholas Jennings, Katia Sycara and Michael Wooldridge
Ant Algorithms for Discrete Optimization - Marco Dorigo and Gianni Di Caro
Computer Models of Cultural Evolution - Nicholas Gessler
Cooperative Coevolution: An Architecture for Evolving Coadapted Subcomponents - Mitchell A. Potter and Kenneth A. De Jong
Dynamics of Complex Systems - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Dynamics With Expectations - Natalie Sandrine Glance
Early Warning and Conflict Prevention: Minerva's Wisdom - Ruddy Doom
Emotional Agents - fuzzy based
Just How (Un)realistic are Evolutionary Algorithms as Representations of Social Processes ? - Edmund Chattoe
Kanpur Genetic Algorithm Lab - Kalyanmoy Deb
Learning Classifier Systems Group - University of the West of England
Modeling Emotion Dynamics in Intelligent Agents - Magy Seif El-Nasr
Natural Being and a Coherent Society - Mae-Wan Ho
Natural Niching for Evolving Cooperative Classifiers - Jeffrey Horn and David Goldberg
On Theorizing the Complexity of Economic Systems - Jean Louis Le Moigne
On-Line Bibliography on Learning Classifier Systems and Genetic Algorithms - Andrea Murru
Jan Paredis - coevolutionary GAs
Mitchell A. Potter - coevolutionary algorithms
Re-Introducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioural Sciences - David Sloan Wilson and Elliott Sober
Swarm Development Group - swarm simulation system & user community
Swarm Intelligence Resources - distributed problem solving
The Design and Analysis of a Computational Model of Cooperative Coevolution - Mitchell A. Potter
Transpersonal Psychology and the Paradigm Of Complexity - Sean M. Kelly
What Does Mysticism Have to Teach Us About Consciousness ? - Robert K.C. Foreman

Updated Pages

Boolean Networks - Dynamic Organisms - illustrations added
CALResCo Software - Release 7 (new program MIDNET)
Nonlinear Science - Chaos Tamed - illustrations added
All pages - paragraphs reformatted as justified for later browsers

End of Update 4.73

Updates 4.72 to March 2002:

Updates 4.72 to February 2002:

New Pages

Integrating Knowledge With Needs - essay on teleology
A Logic of Complex Values - research paper

New Links

Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment - Stephen Grand, Dave Cliff & Anil Malhotra
Essays in Experimental Logic - John Dewey
Fractal Alhambra - Philip Northover
Integrating Phenomenology and Cognitive Science - Evan Thompson
Language as a Dynamical System - Jeffrey L. Elman
Kent Palmer - autopoiesis and meta-systems theory
Substance, Change and Event - Wilfrid Sellars
The Dynamical Systems Hypothesis in Cognitive Science - Robert F. Port
The Science Blues - Larry Dossey
Zen and the Art of Debunkery - Daniel Drasin

Updates 4.72 to January 2002:

New Links

Creatures & Norns - Cyberlife Research
Digital Physics - discrete time and space
Holistic Mathematics - Peter Collins
Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Set, Probability and Statistics - Florentin Smarandache
Normative Structures in Natural and Artificial Systems - Christen Krogh
Syntony Quest - sustainable evolutionary futures
The Concept of Emergence - Paul E. Meehl and Wilfrid Sellars

Updated Links

Value Logic & Simplicity Theory - Stephen Phillip (new URL)

Updates 4.72 to December 2001:

New Page

The Ecosystemic Life Hypothesis - Dan Fiscus's paper

New Links

A Common Structure for Concepts of Individuals, Stuffs and Real Kinds - Ruth Garrett Millikan
Biological Metaphors and the Design of Modular Artificial Neural Networks - Egbert J.W. Boers and Herman Kuiper
Complex Organization and Niklas Luhmann's Sociology of Law - Wallace H. Provost
Coping with Uncertainty: The Self-Organisation of Social Systems - Günter Kueppers
Creating Learning Communities - a coalition for self-learning
Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics - Francis Heylighen and Cliff Joslyn
Dimensions of Consciousness Development: A Preliminary Framework - Thomas Jordan
Framing the Postmodern: Language, Culture, Commerce and Consciousness - David Peckinpaugh
Genes, Memes and Megathemes - Mike Mack D and Naked Monk
Interconnectedness - the web of the world
Modularity - A Concept for New Neural Network Architectures - Albrecht Schmidt and Zuhair Bandar
Nurture, Nature, Structure: A Computational Approach to Cognition - Bas Rokers
People in Action - for a better world
Physics, Mysticism and the New Holographic Paradigm - Ken Wilber
Stewards Planetary House - uniting poor people worldwide
Structure and Change in Complex Systems - Wallace H. Provost
The Beer Can Theory of Creativity - Liane Gabora
The Center for Personal Sovereignty - take charge of your life !
Theory and History: The Challenge of Scientism - Ludvig von Mises
When the School Doors Close: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Linda Dobson
Whitehead's Even More Dangerous Idea - Peter Farleigh
Wordsworth and The Composition of Knowledge - Brad Sullivan
Worship as Anti-Structure: The Contribution of Victor Turner - J. Randall Nichols

Updated Pages

CALResCo Info - new member, ecologist Dan Fiscus, included

Updates 4.72 to November 2001:

New Links

A-Design - Adaptive, Agent-Based Method of Conceptual Design
A Functional Approach to Mysticism - Arthur J. Deikman
Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets - Thomas S. Ray
Ardue - personal liberty in the practical exercise of spirituality
Aristotle, Connectionism and the Morally Excellent Brain - David DeMoss
Artificial Intelligence and Connectionism: Some Philosophical Implications - Ivan M.Havel
Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents - Carlos Gershenson García
Between Order And Chaos - David Spangler
Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science - Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Beyond Science - Robert C. Priddy
Biology of Cognition - Humberto Maturana
Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology - Douglas M. Burns
Chaos and the Drama of Social Change - T.R.Young
Coherent Cultures - growing a peaceful, sustainable Earth through communications
Connectionism & the Study of Change - Elizabeth A. Bates & Jeffrey L. Elman
Esoteric Anthropology: Devolutionary & Evolutionary Orientations in Perennial Philosophy - Sheldon R. Isenberg and Gene R. Thursby
Evolutionary Connectionism and Mind/Brain Modularity - Raffaele Calabretta and Domenico Parisi
David Green - ecological complexity
How to Evolve Rationality & Something Better - Peter Danielson
Infinite Wealth - social transformation for a win-win world
Operationalizing Self-Organization Theory for Social Science Research - David J. Krieger
Polanyi's Overcoming of the Dichotomy of Fact and Value - Richard T. Allen
Programmed for Win/Lose: Low Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence - Barry Carter
Reality: The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument - Humberto Maturana
Repluralising the Policy Process: Complexity Theory & Democratic process - Karin Geiselhart
Science Limited - the cultural crisis due to scientistic beliefs
Symbolic Sculpture - the art of mathematics
The 5 Levels of the Feeling Function: A Brief Phenomenological Description - John Fudjack & Patricia Dinkelaker
The Co-Intelligence Institute - evolving together in partnership with nature
The Constitution of Society - Anthony Giddens
The Future Evolution of Man - Sri Aurobindo
The Human Whole: The Higher Psychology & Metapsychology - Robert C. Priddy
The Modularity of Dynamic Systems - Teed Rockwell
The New Connectionism: Developing Relationships Between Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence - Jacob T. Schwartz
The New Frontier in Democratic Theory and Practice - Andrew Dinkelaker
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science - Ludwig von Mises
Traps Of Formal Logic & Dialectics: What They Are and How to Avoid Them - Robert E. Horn
Variability in Brain Function and Behavior - Paul Grobstein
What's It All About, ALife ? - Robert J. Crawford
World As Lover; World As Self - Joanna Macy

Updated Pages

CALResCo Software - Release 6, speed-ups plus executables

Updates 4.72 to October 2001:

New Links

Artificial Life: A Technoscience Leaving Modernity ? - Lars Christian Risan
Evolving Neural Networks Through Augmenting Topologies - Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen
Heidegger, Emotions, Truth - Lawrence M. Hinman
The Concept of Poiesis and Its Application in a Heideggerian Critique of Computationally Emergent Artificiality - Syed Mustafa Ali

End of Update 4.72

Updates 4.71 to 30 September 2001:

New Links

A Common Framework for the Ethics of the 21st Century - Yersu Kim
A Quiet Revolution In Welfare Economics - Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel
Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies - Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC
Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies - Peter Danielson
Lifework of David Bohm - River of Truth - Will Keepin
Post Normal Science, Environmental Policy under Conditions of Complexity - Silvio Funtowicz and Jerry Ravetz
Social Capital and Civil Society - Francis Fukuyama
The Virtues Project - recognising our strengths...
Values and Lifestyle Program - VALS Group, SRI International

Updated Pages

Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - page completed at last !

Updates 4.71 to August 2001:

New Pages

The Collected Poems of Chris Lucas - complexity inspired social comment

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A Moderate Communitarian Proposal - Amitai Etzioni
A Science of Harmony and Gentle Action - F. David Peat
A Self-Organizing Systems Perspective on Planning For Sustainability - M. Beth L. Dempster
Autopoiesis and a Biology of Intentionality - Francisco J. Varela
Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem - Michael Rothschild
Building with the Breath of Life - Tom Bender
Comparison between Karl Pribram's Holographic Brain Theory & More Conventional Models of Neuronal Computation - Jeff Prideaux
Ecosystems, Science and Sustainability - James Kay
Fragmentary Perception of Thought - Ruben Feldman Gonzalez
From the Head to the Heart: Some Thoughts on Similarities between Brain Function & Morphogenesis - Paul Grobstein
Gaia and the Evolution of Coherence - Mae-Wan Ho and Fritz-Abert Popp
Interspecific Justice and Intrinsic Value - Donald VanDeVeer
Intrinsic Value in Nature: A Metaethical Analysis - J. Baird Callicott
I've Got a Map in My Head - F. David Peat
Multisimplex - evolutionary operation (EVOP)
New Science, New Vision - F. David Peat
Self-Organization within Complex Quantum States - Andrej Detela
Social Construction and Identity Politics - Kenneth J. Gergen
Stepping Stones in the Mist - Paul Brown
Sustainability, Stability, and Resilience - Donald Ludwig, Brian Walker & Crawford S. Holling
System Dynamics Methods: A Quick Introduction - Craig W. Kirkwood
The Concept of Coherence Considered as a Systems Isomorphism - Zbigniew William Wolkowski
The Economy of Discourses: A Third Order Cybernetics ? - Philip Boxer & Vincent Kenny
The Fourth Wave: The Ethics of Corporate Downsizing - John Orlando
The Place of Psyche in a Constructed World - Kenneth J. Gergen
The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life - Robert D. Putnam
Three Principles Behind All Tools for Creative Thinking - Paul E. Plsek
Time Dollar Network - family, neighborhood & community without money
Whiteheadian Process and Quantum Theory of Mind - Henry P. Stapp

Updated Pages

Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - completed value interaction/fitness sections
Developmental Replay in Neural Servo Networks - Mervyn van Kuyen (was Cyclomorphosis: Novelty Reducing NNs)
Ecotaoism: Holism, Ecology & Evolution - Laurence Evans (new URL)
Encore - Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation (new URL)
Evolutionary Computation FAQ - comp.ai.genetic newsgroup (new URL)
Zooland - the ultimate ALife resource, perhaps...(new URL)

Updates 4.71 to July 2001:

New Links

Axiology: The Science of Decision Making - Robert Kinsel Smith
Axiology as a Science - Robert S. Hartman
Changing Paradigms of Public Policy - Chris Wilson
Civil Society - The Third Global Power - Nicanor Perlas
Deep Understanding: Wisdom for an Integral Age - Copthorne Macdonald
Designing Effective Learning Environments: Cognitive Apprenticeship Models - Sue E. Berryman
Equilibration of Cognitive Structures, Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence - Jean-Jacques Ducret
Foundations of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems - Alex Viskovatoff
How the World Works and How We Can Change It - Richard K. Moore
Integrating The Big Bang: An Interview with Michael Murphy - Andrew Cohen
Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory: The Politics & Ideology of Self-Organizing Systems - Steve Best & Douglas Kellner
Multiple Personality, Altered States and Virtual Reality: The World Simulation Process Approach - Charles T. Tart
Post-Normal Science: Considerations from a Poietic Systems Perspective - Beth Dempster
Quality of Life: Issues and Questions - Hazel Hendeson
Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences - Abraham H. Maslow
Review of Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason & the Human Brain - Daniel C. Dennett
Second Order Cybernetics as Cognitive Methodology - Bernard Scott
Social Norms: Internalization, Persuasion & History - Amitai Etzioni
Social Psychology as Social Construction: The Emerging Vision - Kenneth J. Gergen
The Complete Newspeak Dictionary from Orwell's 1984 - against totalitarian thought control
The Development Of Systems Thinking Skills Using System Dynamics Modeling Tools - Günther Ossimitz
The Man with Two Heads: Sheikh Ragip/Robert Frager - Craig Hamilton
The Necessity for Developing Skill at Mind-Process Observation - Copthorne Macdonald
Up In Arms About Being Put Down - Christian de Quincey
Vensim - systems dynamics (Win3.1/98/Mac)
Vico, Wittgenstein & Bakhtin: Practical Trust in Dialogical Communities - John Shotter
What does Research on Political Attitudes & Behaviour tell Us about the Need for Improving Education for Democracy ? - Margaret Stimmann Branson
What Is Enlightenment ? - magazine
What is Social Ecology ?- Murray Bookchin

Updated Pages

Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - Gaianauts are 'go' for launch...

Updates 4.71 to June 2001:

New Links

A Personal PsychoSpiritual Analysis using 'Conference of the Birds' - Gary Crawford
A Psychosynthesis 12-Step Program for Transforming Consciousness - Michael Brown
An Evolutionary Architecture - Robert Saunders
Anarchism and Cybernetics - John D. McEwan
Applied Systems Thinking - Curt McNamara
Bibles Do Not Equal Wisdom - Matthew Webb
Center for Integral Science - outer plus inner experience
Complex Adaptive Systems Research - Mark Voss
Cosmism: Nano Electronics & 21st Century Global Ideological Warfare - Hugo de Garis
Cosmosofy - the internet universal religion
Dynamic Learning Communities: An Alternative to Designed Instructional Systems - Brent Wilson and Martin Ryder
Enlightenment.Com - many paths, one site
European Society for General Semantics - resources
Holons, Heaps and Artifacts and Their Corresponding Hierarchies - Fred Kofman
How the Mechanics of Thought and Memory Structure Human Development - Susan Vegors
Humanistic Psychology: From Maslow to the 21st Century - Maureen O' Hara
In Quest of Uncommon Ground - Anthony Judge
Integral Science: Toward a Comprehensive Science of Inner & Outer Experience - Thomas J. McFarlane
Language Theory: Consensual Selection of Dynamics - Charles Henry & Luis Rocha
Layered Cognitive Networks - Ian J. Thompson
LEARN Institute - Neuro-Semantics, Meta-States & NLP
Learning Organizations - Peter Senge resources
LEM - logic based approach to general systems theory
Lucid Dreaming - conscious guiding of dreams
Making Ecology Make Sense: The Six Disciplines of All Species Project - Chris Wells
Multi-Agent Systems - AAAI
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution - Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins
Neuro-Linguistic Programming - run your own brain
New Science Makes us Question our Assumptions - Jonathan Dickau
Nondual Ecology: A Study in Deep Ecology - John McClellan
Nonlinear Sciences - e-print archive
Organisations as Co-evolving Complex Adaptive Systems - Eve Mitleton-Kelly
Patterns That Connect:: Rethinking our Approach to Learning & Teaching - Jeffrey W. Bloom
Personal Transformation - Peter Senge
Perspectives in Transpersonal Theory -Gerry Goddard
Post-Fortean Meta-Complexity - speculations on the weirder fringes of science and culture
Principles and Guidelines for Sustainable Community Design - Robert Hsin
Requisite Cognitive Skills for Decisions About Systems- Gary Chicoine-Piper
Science, Religion and God: A Story about Stories - Milton Dawes
Self-Replicating Worms That Increase Structural Complexity through Gene Transmission - Hiroki Sayama
Six Levels of Complexity: A Typology of Processes & Systems - Dietrich Fliedner
Stafford Beer - team syntegrity
Systemics and Education - resources
The Induction - Franklin Merrell-Wolff
The Known, the Unknown & the Unknowable - Jonathan J. Dickau
The Missing Context in Science Education: Science - Jay Lemke
The Natural Philosophy of Ecology: Developmental Systems Ecology (Infodynamics) - Stanley Salthe
The QLN Network - improving the quality of life
The Role of Language in the Perceptual Processes - Alfred Korzybski
The Systems Perspective: Methods and Models for the Future - Allena Leonard and Stafford Beer
The Survivalist's Guide for the New Millennium - Matthew Webb
The World Mind Society - progressive enlightenment of our species
ThisIsNotThat - general semantics information
Toward a New Continuing Higher Education - Irene Karpiak and Bill Kops
Transcending Duality through Tensional Integrity: From Systems-versus-Networks to Tensegrity Organization - Anthony Judge
Transpersonal Realities or Neurophysiological Illusions - Charles T. Tart
Union of International Associations- world problems, resources and strategies
Wisdom and Wilderness - Joseph W. Meeker
Wisdom: A First Approximation - Don Cochrane

Updated Pages

Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - extended

Updated Links

Evolution, Complexity & Philosophy - social/ecological aspects (new URL)

Updates 4.71 to May 2001:

New Links

A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller - Amy C. Edmondson
All Academic - the guide to free academic resources online
BUBL Information Service - for the higher education community
Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence - to heal, empower and revitalize our lives
Embracing Complexity: The Challenge of the Ecosystem Approach - James Kay and Eric Schneider
Emptying Your Cup: Non-Verbal Awareness and General-Semantics - Bruce I. Kodish
Fuzzy Logic & General Semantics in Everyday Life - Susan Presby Kodish and Bruce I. Kodish
Fuzzy Logic vs. Niched Pareto Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Optimization: Part I. Schaffer's F2 Problem - Brian J. Reardon
General Semantics: A Critical and Meta-Critical System - Milton Dawes
General Semantics and the Practice of Awareness - Milton Dawes
Global Alliance for Intelligent Arts - artists dedicated to human development
Global Ideas Bank - socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects
HighWire Press - free full-text science archives
Human Symbolizing - Hilgartner & Associates
Idealist.org - actions without borders
International Society of General Semantics - knowledge & inquiry into non-Aristotelian systems
Ishmael and General Semantics Theory - Andy Hilgartner on Daniel Quinn's novel
Lies of the Mind: The Psychology Of Behavioural Evolution - Carlo Suanno
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms: Classifications, Analyses, and New Innovations. - David A. Van Veldhuizen
Nonviolence in the 21st Century: Challenges and Choices - Arun Gandhi
Order from Disorder: The Thermodynamics of Complexity in Biology - Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay
Peace Room - the foundation for conscious evolution
Scirus - search for scientific information
Situationism (The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference) - Cass R. Sunstein
Spiral Dynamics - Ken Wilber
Tedesco Analytics - complexity science for understanding consumers
Testing Guesses - Martha Bartter
The Evolution of Ethics - Sarah Bromberg
The Human Basis Of Laws And Ethics - Frederick Edwords
The Nature of Niching: Genetic Algorithms and the Evolution of Optimal, Cooperative Populations - Jeffrey Horn
The Nonviolence Web - a guide to the contemporary peace movement
The Peace On Earth Millennium - guide to a dream
The "Semantics'' of Evolution: Trajectories and Trade-offs in Design Space and Niche Space - Aaron Sloman
TIme-Binding Ethics - Steven Lewis
United Communities of Spirit - global interfaith network
Visions of the New Millennium: Global Peace through Meditation - Sant Rajinder and Singh Ji Maharaj
What the World Wants Project - The World Game Institute
World Transformation - cornucopia of ideas for a world that works better for all of us

Updated Links

Complex Systems Virtual Library - comprehensive A-Z annotated links (new URL)
Fractal Sequencer - Shawn Bulen (new URL)
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & the Life Sciences - resources (new URL)
The Nature of Fractals - intro by Juan Luis Martínez (new URL)
Third Apex to Fractovia - Juan Luis Martínez (new URL)

End of Update 4.71

Update 4.7 April 2001:

New Pages

Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - putting the ideas into practice

New Links

A General Statement of the Tragedy of the Commons - Herschel Elliott
Action Coalition for Global Change - peace, justice, human rights & non-violence
Ant Colony Optimization - Marco Dorigo
Brain Food - taking a full look at the worst
Buckminster Fuller & the Game of the World - Medard Gabel
Buckminster Fuller Institute - humanity’s option for success
Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) - University of Michigan
Cog as a Thought Experiment - Daniel C. Dennett
Dialogues with Sun - Vladimir Dimitrov
Environmentalism: The Triumph of Politics - Doug Bandow
Forgiving Ourselves and Healing the Inner Child - Edith Stauffer & Guy A. Pettitt
Future Positive - all we have to do is change our minds...
In Defense of Property Rights and Capitalism - Tibor R. Machan
Institute of General Semantics- non-Aristotelian language
L-arbor - Marco Grubert (Win95/OpenGL)
Manhood of Humanity - Alfred Korzybski
Modeling Motivations & Emotions as a Basis for Intelligent Behaviour - Dolores Canamelo
Modernity and the African Experience - A.O. Balcomb
New England Complex Systems Institute - interdisciplinary studies
Oxfam - connecting with the disadvantaged
Pragmatism & the Question of Truth - Emile Durkheim
Public Action to Remedy Hunger - Amartya Sen
Security and the Peace Dividend: Prospects in South Asia - Amartya Sen
Simulation - A Way Forward ? - David Byrne
Social Structures and Chaos Theory - R.David Smith
Spiritual Paths for the Evolution to Higher Consciousness - resources
Steady-State Economics: A Catechism of Growth Fallacies - Herman Daly
Synergic Consumption - Timothy Wilken
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life - Robert Alun Jones on Emile Durkheim
The Non-Aristotelian Systemic Thinking about "Causation" in Complex Systems - L. Michael Hall
The Society of Neuro-Semantics - neuro-linguistic programming
The Time-Binding Trust - uncommon sense and science through synergy
United Nations Online - a virtual model of the UN
Vladimir Dimitrov - social complexity and fuzziology
What I Believe - Alfred Korzybski
World Game Institute - planetary management

Updated Links

Autopoiesis and Sprituality - Vladimir Dimitrov and Bob Hodge (new URL)
Chaos and Complexity + Creativity and Contemplation - Intermet Masters programme (new URL)
Complexity, Chaos and Creativity: A Journey beyond System Thinking - Vladimir Dimitrov (new URL)
Strange Attractors of Meaning - Vladimir Dimitrov (new URL)
The Ceptual Institute - integrity & perspectives (expansion)

Updates 4.62 to March 2001:

New Links

Cellular Automata Models in Evolutionary Morphology: - Diego Rasskin-Gutman
Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies - various authors
Ecological Footprints of Nations - our unsustainable consumerism
Evolving the Architecture of a Multi-Part Program in Genetic Programming Using Architecture-Altering Operations - John Koza
Gene Expression Programming - Candida Ferreira
General Semantics: The Next Generation - Nicholas Johnson
Global Vision - a systems view of sustainability
In Search of Creativity: Beyond Individualism and Collectivism - Ronald E. Purser and Alfonso Montuori
Leila Kubba Kawash Cybergallery - east meets west
Logical vs. Analogical or Symbolic vs. Connectionist or Neat vs. Scruffy - Marvin Minsky
Massively Parallel Simulations of Complex, Large Scale, High ResolutionEcosystem Models - Randy Gimblett, George Ball, Vince Lopes, Bernard Zeigler, Bill Sanders & Michael Marefat
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity - Gregory Bateson
Marvin Minsky - artificial intelligence
On Becoming a Personal Anarchist - Spencer A. McWilliams
Plasticity, Evolvability and Modularity in RNA - Lauren W. Ancel and Walter Fontana
Positioning Sustainability as a Global Goal - Michael O'Callaghan
Tom Ray - digital evolution
Reinforcement Learning: A Survey - Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman & Andrew W. Moore
Science and the Sacred: On Fundamentalism - Michael O'Callaghan
Simulating Collective Misbelief - Jim Doran
Social Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Conception of Social Groups - James Moody and Douglas R. White (separate Fig5)
The Centre of the Circle - mandalas on the web
The Complementary Brain: Unifying Brain Dynamics and Modularity - Stephen Grossberg
The Humanistic Science of Man - Erich Fromm
The Imbalanced Brain: From Normal Behaviour to Schizophrenia - Stephen Grossberg
The Two Voices of Erich Fromm: The Prophetic and the Analytic - Michael Maccoby
Through the Labyrinth Evolution Finds a Way: A Silicon Ridge - Inman Harvey and Alan Thompson

Updated Links

Artificial Life - Tom Ray (new URL)
Tierra - Tom Ray (new URL)
The Crowning - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
Nomads - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
Inanna and the Hulluppu Tree - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
Labyrinth - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
Dumuzi and Inanna - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
His Descent - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)

Updates 4.62 to February 2001:

New Links

Cybertation - 3D Alife (Win3.1+)
Evo - artificial life framework
Incorporating Complexity in Ecosystem Modelling - Lael Parrott & Robert Kok
Life Spacies - text to alife
Life 3d - Thomas Feldbauer and Markus Doetsch
Simulating Physics using Virtual Atoms - Tim Tyler
Stephen Grossberg - biological neural networks
The GOLEM Project - automatic design and manufacture of robotic lifeforms
The Integrating Modelling Toolkit - interoperable agents
Towards A Mathematics Of Complexity - David Green

End of Updates 4.62/4.7

Update 4.61 17 February 2001

New Pages

Breaking Our Mental Chains - essay on complexity study
Value Metascience and Synergistic Choice - research paper
Corporate Disintegration and Product Virtualisation - essay on brand dilution
Connecting Synergistically - essay on social emergence

New Links

Application Links

Blueberry Brain Institute & Chaos Cooperative - Fred Abraham
Chaos and Complexity + Creativity and Contemplation - Intermet Masters programme
Cybernetics, Systems and Complexity - Study Programs
Humanistic Economics - links and works
New Horizons for Learning - connecting people and resources
Redefining Progress - GPI v GDP
Teaching, Parenting, Managing - Alfie Kohn
The 21st Century Learning Initiative - education, work and community worldwide
The Character Education Pages - Craig A. Cunningham
The Arlington Institute - tracking social change
The Chaordic Alliance - new concepts of organization

Resource Links

Artificial Life - Jean-Philippe Rennard
Complexity Digest - recent papers and news
The Self-Organization of the European Information Society - EU TSER project

Online Papers

Complexity, Chaos and Creativity: A Journey beyond System Thinking - Vladimir Dimitrov
Evolutionary Transitions and Artificial Life - John Stewart
Thinking About Thought: Paradigm Shifts in Modern Science & the New Science of Mind - Piero Scaruffi

Related Applications

A Citizen Agenda to Tame Corporate Power, Reclaim Citizen Sovereignty & Restore Economic Sanity - David C. Korten
A Critique of the Chicago School: Ronald Coase & the Coase Theorem - Steve Kangas
A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animats and Humans - Anthony Chemero
Airing Our Transpersonal Differences - Gerry Goddard
An Appeal to the Young - Peter Kropotkin
Artifical Evolution for Computer Graphics - Karl Sims
Artificial Life as Philosophy - Daniel C. Dennett
Autopoiesis and Sprituality - Vladimir Dimitrov and Bob Hodge
Autopoiesis in Organisations - Vladimir Dimitrov and Lloyd Fell
Beyond Right and Left: A Humanist Approach to Politics - Pat Duffy Hutcheon
Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators - Hazel Henderson, Jon Lickerman, and Patrice Flynn
Challenging Behaviorist Dogma: Myths About Money and Motivation - Alfie Kohn
Chaos, Bifurcations & Self-Organization:
Dynamical Extensions of Neurological Positivism & Ecological Psychology - Fred Abraham
Consequences of Pragmatism - Richard Rorty
Environmental Justice: Some Ecofeminist Worries About a Distributive Model - Karren J. Warren
Evolution: An Epigenetic Approach - Mae-Wan Ho
Evolution's Arrow - John Stewart
Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions - Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
From Theory to Practice: Classroom Application of Outcome-Based Education - Janet Battistini
Genuine Progress Indicator - Jonathan Rowe and Mark Anielski
Globalization, Spiritual Living & Gandhian Economics - Romesh Diwan
Hayek's Evolutionary Epistemology, AI and the Question of Free Will - Gary T. Dempsey
Homage to Jean Piaget - Ernst von Glasersfeld
Homo Reciprocans: Political Economy and Cultural Evolution - Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Introduction to Decision Making - Robert Harris
Many Damn Things Simultaneously: Complexity Theory and World Affairs - James N. Rosenau
Memetics and the Multiple Futures of Racism - Caleb Rosado
Metaphor, Morality, and Politics: Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust - George Lakoff
Moral Decision Making - An Analysis - Chris MacDonald
Motivation and Emotion: An Interactive Process Model - Mark Bickard
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin
Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty - Emma Goldman
Perfecting Democracy's Tools - Hazel Henderson
Planetary Survival and Consciousness Evolution: Psychological Roots of Human Violence and Greed - Stanislav Grof
Psychology in Perspective - Huw Price
Propaganda in a Democratic Society - Aldous Huxley
Quality and Intelligence - John Beasley
Radical Perspectivism: Chapter on Education - Alexander Makedon
Research Problems in the Use of a Shallow AI Model of Personality and Emotion - Clark Elliott
Scientific Ideas and Education in the 21st Century - Ash Hartwell
Seeing The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism - David T. Ratcliffe
Shufflebrain: The Quest of Hologramic Mind - Paul Pietsch
Socio-Cybernetics and the New Alienations - Felix Geyer
Strategies for Studying Causation in Complex Ecological Political Systems - Thomas Homer-Dixon
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life, Review by - Scott E. Page
Tao and the Aperspectival World - Eiichi Shimomisse
The Architecture of Life - Donald E. Ingber
The Art of Chaordic Leadership - Dee Hock
The Betrayal of Adam Smith - David C. Korten
The Biology of Globalization - Elisabet Sahtouris
The Capitalist Threat - George Soros
The Case Against Competition - Alfie Kohn
The Chaordic Organization: Out of Control and Into Order - Dee Hock
The Coming Anarchy - Robert D. Kaplan
The Developing Ideas Interview - Herman Daly
The Education of the Complete Moral Person - Marvin W. Berkowitz
The Internet and Political Transformation: Populism, Community, and Accelerated Pluralism - Bruce Bimber
The Morality of Competition - Frederick M. Gordon
The Quantum Inquisition - Michael Brooks
The Role of Moral Psychology in Theories of Practical Reason - Timothy J. Taylor
The Sense of Values - Raymond Boudon
Three Views of the Agentic Self: A Developmental Synthesis - Todd D. Little, Patricia H. Hawley, Christopher C. Henrich & Katherine W. Marsland
Transpersonal Inspiration - Roberto Assagioli
Virtue Ethics without Character Traits - Gilbert Harman
Was Democracy Just A Moment ? - Robert D. Kaplan
What is it Like to be a Bat - Thomas Nagel

Miscellaneous & Fun

An Anarchist FAQ - the state on trial
Awakening Earth - knowledge for a sustainable and compassionate future
Critiques Of Libertarianism - freedom to control ?
cy.Rev Journal - cybernetic revolution, sustainable socialism & radical democracy
Gaia Nation - ecophilosophy
HoloWorld - blueprint for a synergistic society
Institute for Anarchist Studies - critical discussion
Island Web - a psychadelic culture
Liberalism Resurgent II - The Second Surge - a response to the Right
New Civilisation Network - visualizing a better world
Political Corrections - America as police state
School for Social Entrepreneurs - innovative public benefit
Seizing The Media - Immediast Underground
The Global Citizens Plan - nine strategies for global change
The Institute of Noetic Sciences - archives
The Institute of Science In Society - science, sustainability, society
The People Centered Development Forum - just, inclusive, and sustainable human societies
The Simple Living Network - a more conscious, simple, healthy & restorative lifestyle
The Wisdom Page - texts, references, organizations
ThryWoman's Irrational Rationalist HomePage - charming propaganda
Transcendental Perspectivism: The Third Enlightentment - Werner Krieglstein
Worker Owned and Operated - cooperative living

Updated Pages

Search Page - improved with Google and WWW search added
Multidimensional Economics - minor changes and links added

Icon added to highlight web books

Updated Links

Chaos & Complexity in Education - AERA Special Interest Group (new URL)
Non-Linearity & Complexity - links from Greece (new URL)
Radical Constructivism - Alex Riegler (new URL)
Robotics in Japan - comprehensive list (new URL)
Sonic Fractal - ambient music (new URL)

End of Update 4.61

Update 4.6 August 2000

New Pages

Setting The Scene - Science, Humanity and Interaction - introduction
Related Application Papers - interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation
Global Power Networks - essay on forces

New Sections

Cybernetics and Systems Dynamics
Humanity as it Is

New Links

Applications

Center for Complex System Dynamics - plasma and complex system synergies
Center For Neurodynamics - UMSL
Cognition, Technology, and Complex Systems + Knowledge Mediator - Michael J. Jacobson
Connectionism and Social Psychology - Christophe Labiouse
Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL - Game Theory and Information
Emergent Systems - Kenneth E. Rinaldo
Frontiers in Ecology: Building the Links- ESA97
Game Theory - HET
Laboratory of Biological Modelling - George N. Reeke
Laws of the Fifth Discipline - reference guide
Non-Linear Physics Group - Naval Research Laboratory
GRASP - Statistical Physics Liège
Syllabus of Readings for Complex Adaptive Systems and Agent-Based Computational Economics - Leigh Tesfatsion
The Creative Learning Exchange - systems education in primary & secondary school

Resources

International Journal of Chaos Theory and Applications - abstracts online
Biosemiotics - Alexei A. Sharov
Chilean School of Biology of Cognition - Humberto Maturana
Complex Systems: Policy and Decision Making - workshop at Cortina D'Ampezzo
Cybernetics - Random Steps to Serious Insight
NLP and Systems Thinking - Joseph O'Connor
System Dynamics / Systems Thinking - Günther Ossimitz's Mega Link List
System Dynamics Resource Page- Arizona State University
System Dynamics Society - policy analysis & design

Tutorials

Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction - by Greg Rae
Systems Thinking: Simplified Overview - by Rod Draheim, Mike Henderson, Gus Neverman, Duane Schwartz & Mike Wenzlick
The Art of Systems Thinking - Joseph O'Connor and Ian McDermott
Complexity and Organisation Development - by Richard Seel
Guide to Complex Systems - NECSI
Applied Systems Thinking - Curt McNamara
Artificial Neural Networks - an introduction by the Helsinki Cognitive Science Group

Online Papers

Mark Bickhard - symbolic emergence
Paul Thagard - coherence and analogy
Franciso Varela - neurophenomenology & autopoiesis
Tim van Gelder - dynamical cognitive science
A Defense of Emergent Downward Causation - Teed Rockwell
Biosemiotics: Functional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of the Sense of Information - Alexei A. Sharov
Contributions of Humberto Maturana to the Sciences of Complexity and Psychology - Alberto B. Ruiz
Evolutionary Optimization of Dynamic Fitness Functions - Alessio Gaspar
Holarchies - The Metapattern of the Self-Organizing Universe - Bob Debold
Introducing a New Connectionist Model: The Spreading Waves of Activation Network - Scott Gazzard
Is Life as a Multiverse Phenomenon ? - Claus Emmeche
Modeling Life: A Note on the Semiotics of Emergence and Computation in Artificial and Natural Living Systems - Claus Emmeche
Mother Nature vs. the Walking Encyclopedia - Daniel C. Dennett
Significant Points in the Study of Complex Systems - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Some Myths of Connectionism - István S. N. Berkeley
Synergy of Complements in Living System - Gyorgy G Jaros
The Connectionist Modeler's Toolkit: A Review of Some Basic Processes Over Distributed Memories - Janet Wiles
Parallelization of Variable-Sized Self Organizing Maps: A Development Tool - Travis Minke and Jason Reicheneker
Classical and Connectionist Models of Cognition - Eric Lormand
Distributed Representations and Nested Compositional Structure - Tony A. Plate
From Artificial Evolution to Artificial Life - Tim Taylor
Seized by Agreement, Swamped by Understanding - edited by L. Fell, D. Russell & A.Stewart

Related Application Papers

About the Relationship of Artificial Life to Digital Art, with a Focus on the Aesthetic of Behaviour-based Models - Damien Cola
Against Scientific Imperialism - John Dupré
Anatomy of Teleology - Julian Cole
Autopoietic Theory and Social Systems: Theory and Practice - Randall Whitaker
Beyond our Senses: Recasting Book I, Part III of Hume's Treatise - Saul Traiger
Biosemiotics: Towards a New Synthesis in Biology - Jesper Hoffmeyer
Buddhist Meditation and Personal Construct Psychology - Phouttasone (Pilou) Thirakoul
Complex Systems: The Role of Interactions - Robert Jervis
Complex Thinking in Eastern Thought: Non-Presence, Decenteredness and the Unspeakable - Robert Chia
Connectionism, Psychology and Science - George Oliphant
Connectionism and Second Language Vocabulary - Robert Waring
Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior - Stephen J. Read and Lynn C. Miller
Consciousness and Education: A Process Perspective - Steve Mashalidis
Cybernetics and Social Science: Theories and research in Sociocybernetics - Felix Geyer
Darwin Amongst the Machines; or The Origins of [Artificial] Life - George Dyson
Darwinism and Development Systems - Paul Griffiths & Russell Gray
Democracy and Education - John Dewey
Education For & With Values Immanent in the Emergent Levels of Socio-Cybernetic Being - Gary McI. Boyd
Emotional Decisions - Allison Barnes and Paul Thagard
Evolution, Teleology, Intentionality - Daniel C. Dennett
Evolutionary Love - Charles Peirce
Fractals in Biological Systems - Angel Chang
From Social Synapses to Social Ganglions: Complex Adaptive Systems in the Jurassic Age - Howard Bloom
Gaia: The World Soul of Science and Religion - Doctress Neutopia
Global Strategies Project: Order through Chaos - Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
How High School Students Become System Thinkers - Scott Guthrie & Diana Fisher
Integrating Memory and Reasoning in Analogy-Making: The AMBR Model - Boicho N. Kokinov and Alexander A. Petrov
Isolated and Interrelated Concepts - Robert L. Goldstone
Many To One Mappings as a Basis for Life - Roland Somogyi
Moral Realism, Moral Relativism and Moral Rules (A Compatibility Argument) - Graham Oddie
Mining the Gene Expression Matrix: Inferring Gene Relationships from Large Scale Gene Expression Data - Patrik D'haeseleer, Xiling Wen, Stefanie Fuhrman, and Roland Somogyi
Modelling Social Systems as Complex: Towards a Social Simulation Meta-Model - Chris Goldspink
Moral Objectivism - Michael Huemer
Naive Physics: An Essay in Ontology - Barry Smith and Roberto Casati
New Approaches to the Study of Complex Biological Processes - NIGMS
NonDual Ecology: In Praise of Wildness & In Search of Harmony With Everything That Moves - John McClellan
Objective Versus Intersubjective Truth - Nick Szabo
On Ecological Ethics: An Introduction - Patrick Curry
Philosophical Issues in Brain Theory and Connectionism - Andy Clark & Chris Eliasmith
Pluralisms for Education: An Ethics of Care Perspective - Ann Diller
Pragmatism, Critical Realism and the Cognitive Value of Religion and Science - J. Wesley Robbins
Qualitative Overview of Population Neurodynamics - Walter Freeman
Rehabilitating Care - Alisa L. Carse and Hilde Lindemann
Rethinking the Benefits of the College-Bound Curriculum: Escaping Academic Captivity - Nel Noddings
Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning - John Seely Brown, Allan Collins and Paul Duguid
Social Processes as Dynamical Processes: Qualitative Dynamical Systems Theory in Social Psychology - Paul A. Watters, Peter J. Ball & Stuart C. Carr
Some Remarks on Wholes, Parts and Their Perception - Cyril Latimer and Catherine Stevens
Strange Attractors of Meaning - Vladimir Dimitrov
Synergic Inquiry (SI): An Alternative Framework for Transformative Learning - Yongming Tang
Teaching System Dynamics to Teachers and Students in 8-12 Environment - Diana M. Fisher
Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny - Kenneth E. Rinaldo
The Acting Brain: Reviewing the Neuroscientific Evidence - Vittorio Gallese
The Concept of Coherence Considered as a Systems Isomorphism - Zbigniew William Wolkowski
The Extended Mind - Andy Clark and David Chalmers
The Feminine Face of Science - Linda Jean Shepherd
The Philosophical Appendix to Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research - Caroline Whitbeck
The Principles of Psychology - William James
The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions - Carl Folke, Lowell Pritchard Jr., Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding and Uno Svedin
The Role of Symbiosis in Evolutionary Adaptation - Richard A. Watson
The Search for Transcendent Values - Robert M. Young
The Third Contender: A Critical Examination of the Dynamicist Theory of Cognition - Chris Eliasmith
Topology, Metric and Dynamics of Social Systems - Jürgen Klüver and Jörn Schmidt
Urban Dynamics - Jay Forrester
Value Theory: Toward Conceptual Clarification - Pat Duffy Hutcheon
World Views: From Fragmentation to Integration - Aerts, Apostel, de Moor, Hellemans, Maex, Van Belle & Van der Veken

Offline Papers

Bill Clancey - situated cognition
CogPrints Southhampton/JISC - misc
Gerald Edelman - neural Darwinism
Jeff Elman - connectionism
Robert Goldstone - learning & NNs
Geoffrey E. Hinton's - neural networks
Peter M. Todd - evolutionary and adaptive simulation
An Overview of Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Logic Programming - Jack Minker
Connectionism : Past, Present and Future - Jordon B. Pollack
Criticality and Scaling in Evolutionary Ecology - Ricard V. Sole, Suzanna C. Manrubia, Michael Benton, Stuart Kauffman, and Per Bak
Morphodynamic Models of Communication - Peter Bøgh Andersen
Multiassociative Memory - John F. Kolen & Jordon B. Pollock
Phase Transitions in a Gene Network Model of Morphogenesis - Ricard V. Solé, Isaac Salazar-Ciudad and Jordi Garcia-Fernandez
Phase Transitions in Logic Networks - Bruce Sawhill and Stuart Kauffman
Systems Dynamics and the Lessons of 35 Years - Jay W. Forrester
Systems Dynamics Meets the Press - Donella H. Meadows

Major Software

Dynamical Systems Theory - Hinke Osinga
Simulation - IDSEA
Dancer DNA - Sound/Joy (Win95)
Dynamic Analyzer - webPhysics (Windows/Mac)
Evoids - Dave Mann (Win95)
Fractal Awareness Governance Model - Jules Ruis (DOS)
Nonlinear Regression Analysis Program - Phillip H. Sherrod (DOS/WIN95/NT)

Fun & Miscellaneous

Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution - Elisabet Sahtouris
Enlightenment On-Line - The Spiritual Search In Cyberspace
Extraterrestrial Life In The Cosmos - Sterling Kodiak
Feudalism ...alias American Capitalism - David's fight against modern slavery
Free-Programs.com - The Best Freeware on the Net
Journal of Scientific Exploration - evaluating fringe science
Ken Wilber - online holistic philosophy
New Thought Movement - The Practice of the Presence of God for Practical Purposes
Omphalos - The Center of the Pagan Web !
Parascience Website - reconciliation of 21st century science & humankind
School of Wisdom - Ralph Losey
Social Power and Psychological Distress - David Smail
Spiral Dynamics, Values, Leadership, Change - expanding on the work of Clare W. Graves
The Radical Academy - Philosophy, Politics and the Human Condition
Zenzibar Alternative Culture - directory
The Free Web - resources
Project Gutenberg - freely available classic books

Updated Pages

Self-Organizing Systems FAQ V2.4 - structure/results changes
Java Software - applet pics added
Complexity and Artificial Life - pics added and minor text changes
Attractors Everywhere - pics, links & subheadings added
Fractal Geometry - pics & subheadings added
Self-Organization & Entropy - pics, links & subheadings added
Genetic Algorithms - pics, links & subheadings added
Automata - pics, links & subheadings added
Neural Networks - subheadings added
Nonlinear Science - subheadings added
Perturbations and Transients - subheadings added
Emergence and Evolution - subheadings added, minor text changes

Updated Links

American Society for Cybernetics - Venkat Sunil Dudi (new URL)
Artificial Life Online - home of Artificial Life (merge of Santa Fe)
Dynamical & Evolutionary Machine Organization (DEMO) - NNs, GAs & Robots (new URL)
Tony Plate - holographic recurrent networks (new URL)
The Apothecary's Drawer - stuffed alligators, brass astrolabes and jars of coloured water...
Complexity - CTCS (new URL)
SineArt - Brian N. Hershey (new URL)

End of Update 4.6

Update 4.5 March 2000

New Pages

The Philosophy of Complexity - introduction
Evolutionary Psychology and Sociology - introduction
Autopoiesis and Coevolution - introduction
Classifier, IFS, L-Systems and Beyond - introduction
The Abnormal Normals - essay on social norms
Quality of Life - essay on better living
Fighting Manipulation - essay on exploitation
Freedom Beyond Control - essay on complex politics
Fitness and Synergy - introduction
Fuzzy Multidimensional Logic - introduction
Contextual Ethics - essay on coevolving morality
Genomic Delusions - essay on GM food
Creation of a Global Life - essay on Internet life
Entering a New Millennium - essay on new year resolutions

New Links

Applications

Application Of Evolutionary Thinking To Brand Marketing - Martin Oxley
Evolutionary Economics: Metaphor or Unifying Paradigm ? - Peter Corning
Vortex Simulation - Building Organizational Agility in Complex Knowledge Environments
TRON : Experiments in Machine Learning - Pablo Funes
Compositional Algorithms as Cyberspirit Attractors - Ron Pellegrino
Flight Control and Visual Navigation - Mike Fouche

Resources

European Journal of Economic and Social Systems (EJESS) - some pdf availability
The Alife Society - resources and articles
Gallery Of Strange Attractors- Bluy Brink
Cellular Automata - Mario Rodríguez-Riotorto
Systems Theory - links by David X. Swenson
The Joint Committee on Complexity - various resources
3D Fractals (Quaternions) - Dirk Meyer
Fuzzy Systems - Digital Library
Doing Science - an overview by Pete Jumars

Tutorials

An Introduction to AI - essays on most areas by Generation 5
Chaos without the Math - by Judy Petree
Primer to Complexity Theory - Amanda Inskip Corcoran
Systems Theory Lesson - AECT Change Division
The Fractal Guide - by Parmjit Virk
Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic - overview by Brian T. Luke
Fuzzy Logic Tutorial - Steven D. Kaehler
Fuzzy Decision Making - lecture notes (postscript) by Robert Fullér
The GA Tutorials Notebook - lists of introductions and tutorials
A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial - by Darrell Whitley (postscript)
The Backprop Algorithm - by Donald R. Tveter

Online Papers

William Langton - genetic programming
Antichaos and Adaptation - Stuart A. Kauffman
Attractive and In-Discrete: A Critique of Two Putative Virtues of the Dynamicist Theory of Mind - Chris Eliasmith
Control Information: A Meaningful Alternative to Information Theory - Peter Corning
Holistic Darwinism: Synergistic Selection and the Evolutionary Process - Peter Corning
Synergism Hypothesis: On the Concept of Synergy and it's Role in the Evolution of Complex Systems - Peter Corning
Zones of Cooperation in Demographic Prisoner's Dilemma - Joshua M. Epstein
Fuzzy Inferencing Systems : Problems and Some Solutions - Bob John
Genetic Programming Bloat with Dynamic Fitness - William Langdon and Riccardo Poli
A Comprehensive Case Study: An Examination of Connectionist and Machine Learning Algorithms - Frederick Zarndt
Classifier Systems: A Useful Approach to Machine Learning ? - Bart de Boer
Evolutionary Design of Neural Networks - Marko A. Grönroos
Evolutionary Emergence Route to Artificial Intelligence - Alastair Channon
Fuzzy Logic in Control - René Jager
Organizational Learning within a Learning Classifier System - Jason Wilcox
Quantum and Evolutionary Approaches to Computational Learning - Dan Ventura
Building Fuzzy Expert Systems - William Siler
Darwinism: Science or Philosophy - ed. Jon Buell and Virginia Hearn

Offline Papers

Tom Quick - structural coupling
William Spears - genetic algorithms
Dan Ventura - quantum EC
Gunter Wagner - evolution
A Report on the 1st International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems - R.E. Smith
A Survey of Parallel Genetic Algorithms - Erich Cantú-Paz
An Overview of Evolutionary Algorithms in Multiobjective Optimization - Carlos M. Fonseca and Peter J. Fleming
Can Evolution Explain How the Mind Works? - Melanie Mitchell
Can Unrealistic Computer Models Illuminate Theoretical Biology ?
Mark Bedau
Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability - Gunter Wagner and Lee Altenberg
Connectionism and Novel Combinations of Skills: Implications for Cognitive Architecture - Robert F. Hadley
Emergence of Social Organization in the Prisoner's Dilemma: How Context-Preservation and Other Factors Promote Cooperation - Michael D. Cohen, Rick L. Riolo, and Robert Axelrod
Environmental Puppeteer Revisited: A Connectionist Perspective on Autonomy - Tom Ziemke
Essays on Darwinism : Ontological Foundations - Barry McMullin
Essays on Darwinism : Organismic Darwinism - Barry McMullin
Essays on Darwinism : Genic Organismic Selection - Barry McMullin
Essence of Embodiment - Tom Quick, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher Nehaniv & Graham Roberts
Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition - Karl Sims
Evolving Artificial Neural Networks that Develop in Time - Stefano Nolfi and Domenico Parisi
Evolving Optimal Populations with XCS Classifier Systems - Tim Kovacs
Fungus Eaters Approach to Evolution: A View from Artificial Intelligence - Rolf Pfeifer
Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Recent Developments - Robert Fullér and Christer Carlsson
Game Theory, Complexity, and Simplicity Part I : A Tutorial - Martin Shubik
Game Theory, Complexity, and Simplicity Part II : Problems and Applications - Martin Shubik
Game Theory, Complexity, and Simplicity Part III : Critique and Prospective - Martin Shubik
How Economists Can Get Alife - Leigh Tesfatsion
How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution - Richard Watson and Jordon Pollack
Implications of Creation - David Hiebeler
Inside and Outside Views of Life - George Kampis
Introduction of Structural Dissolution into Langton's Self-Reproducing Loop - Hiroki Sayama
Introduction to the Statistical Theory of Darwinian evolution - Luca Peliti
Is Anything Ever New ? : Considering Emergence - Jim Crutchfield
Is There Another New factor in Evolution ? - Inman Harvey
Jigsaw Model: An Explanation for the Evolution of Complex Biochemical Systems & the Origin of Life - John F. McGowan
Lamarkian Evolution, The Baldwin Effect and Function Optimisation - Darrell Whitley, V.Scott Gordon & Keith Mathias
Landscapes and Molecular Evolution - Peter Schuster
Life and Evolution in Computers - Melanie Mitchell
Macroevolutionary Algorithms: A New Optimization Method on Fitness Landscapes - Jesus Marin and Ricard V. Sole
Metastable Evolutionary Dynamics: Crossing Fitness Barriers or Escaping via Neutral Paths ? - Erik van Nimwegen and James P. Crutchfield
Multiobjective Optimization using the Niched Pareto Genetic Algorithm - Jeffrey Horn, Nicholas Nafpliotis & David Goldberg
On Information Sharing and the Evolution of Collectives - Michael Lachmann, Guy Sella & Eva Jablonka
Self-Dissimilarity: An Empirical Measure of Complexity - David Wolpert and William Macready
Using Artificial Physics to Control Agents - William M. Spears and Diana F. Gordon
What are Neuro-Fuzzy Classifiers ? - Detlef Nauck and Rudolf Kreuse

Fun & Miscellaneous

Communitarian Network - the responsive community
Cosmogonicon - A Postmodern Cosmography by John P. Lynch
Global Renaissance Alliance - non-violent political values
Intuition Network - cultivate and use your inner resources
The Ragged Trousered Philosopher - Answers to Life, The Universe & Everything
WorldDharma - Evolving A Global Culture of Conscience
Fantastic Art - Christian de Boeck
Social Surrealism - Karl Franklin
The Society for the Art of Imagination - Fantastic Realism, Magic Realism, Surrealism and Visionary Art
Surrealism - an online gallery
The Apothecary's Drawer - stuffed alligators, brass astrolabes and jars of coloured water...
Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch
The Spiritual Pilgrim - Miles Hodges
The Open Directory Project - the largest human-edited directory of the Web

Updated Pages

Glossary - new intros added and all entries hyperlinked