Francis Heylighen | |
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| Born | 27 September 1960 |
| Known for | Principia Cybernetica, research on self-organization, adaptive representation, memetics, global brain |
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| Fields | Cybernetics, complex systems, |
| Institutions | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Doctoral students | Johan Bollen, Carlos Gershenson |
| Website | pcp |
Francis Paul Heylighen (born 27 September 1960) is a Belgian cyberneticist investigating the emergence and evolution of intelligent organization. He presently works as a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels), where he directs the transdisciplinary "Center Leo Apostel" and the research group on "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition".[1][2] He is best known for his work on the Principia Cybernetica Project, his model of the Internet as a global brain, and his contributions to the theories of memetics and self-organization. He is also known, albeit to a lesser extent, for his work on gifted people and their problems.
- ^ Dr. Francis Heylighen at LifeBoat Foundation Bios. Accessed 14 May 2009
- ^ "ECCO Home - ecco.vub.ac.be". ecco.vub.ac.be. Archived from the original on 18 November 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2018.