Global Brain Institute

Francis Heylighen's Substack, "The Self-Organizing Universe", now hosts over a dozen essays, with weekly additions, on topics related to the Global Brain and the Noosphere. As a recent comment noted "What a great read, clear, well grounded and optimistic. I strongly recommend to also read the linked research paper for more details."
Check it out and subscribe if you are interested: https://francisheylighen.substack.com/

Francis Heylighen now has a blog on Substack: the Self-Organizing Universe. Here is the latest installment. Subscribe if you want to receive further essays and reflections on complexity and collective intelligence...

The Self-Organizing Universe - Francis Heylighen | Substack Research on the emergence and evolution of complex systems—and in particular mind, life, and society. Making sense of complexity and confusion by showing how everything eventually fits together in a larger whole. Click to read The Self-Organizing Universe - Francis Heylighen, a Substack publicatio...

School of Thinking VUB Building capacity for cultivation of extraordinary intelligence in individuals and groups ● Toolkit for progressive cutting-edge methods and frameworks of thinking ● Intense workout for the intellect: disciplined yet open-ended

Distributed Consciousness: Information Processes that May Build a Global Mind - Francis Heylighen Francis Heylighen, Free University of Brussels. Presented at the IS4SI 2019 Summit in Berkeley, California. https://is4si.org

Return to Eden? Promises and Perils on the Road to a Global Superintelligence - F Heylighen Presented at the International Society for the Study of Information 2019 Summit in Berkeley, California. Francis Heylighen is a Research Professor at the Fre...

Our "School of Thinking" postgraduate degree at the VUB in Brussels now accepts applications. If you need to deal with complex problem that cut across borders and disciplines, you will learn how to come up with ideas that are both creative and critical, analytic and synthetic.

Info and applications at http://schoolofthinking.be

A recent talk on whether the Global Brain could become conscious. Video will become available soon

Francis Heylighen's Abstract

The Global Brain Institute is part of the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies:
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CLEA The Centre Leo Apostel (CLEA) is transdisciplinary research and education centre at the VUB

Li Xiubo presents on the utility of practical complex adaptive system reasoning in design of cities infrastructure

The practical reasoning of complex engineering systems design | ecco.vub.ac.be

ECCO Seminars start again this semester with Clément Vidal's perspective on cosmic meaning

Are we cosmically (in)significant? | ecco.vub.ac.be