The science of complexity is based on a new way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy underlying Newtonian science, which is based on reductionism, determinis...
Francis Heylighen, Paul Cilliers, Carlos Gershenso...
Skepticism of the building block hypothesis has previously been expressed on account of the weak theoretical foundations of this hypothesis and anomalies in the empirical record o...
This paper presents a formal theory for reasoning about motion of spatial entities, in a qualitative framework. Taking over a theory intended forspatial entities, we enrich ittoac...
Philosophy, artificial intelligence and cognitive science have long been dominated by the presupposition that intelligence is fundamentally individual. Recent work in cognitive sci...
We introduce an alternative conceptual basis for default reasoning in Reiter's default logic. In fact, most formal or computational treatments of default logic suffer from th...