Heylighen, Francis
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Name (Latin)
Heylighen, Francis
Date of birth
1960-09-27
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Self-steering and cognition ... c1989:CIP t.p. (Francis Heylighen, Free Univ. of Brussels, Belgium)
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Wikipedia description:
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". 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.
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