Dear Professor Heylighen,
A musical link to our National Anthem, for example at
http://www.vpresence.com/brabanconne/Sound.html, would have let the water in my eyes experience gravity: Bravo, this discreetly proud Belgian recognizes perfectly his country in your well chosen words !
Your own background surely makes you familiar with Ilya Prigogine’s ideas of order growing out of complex systems (*). Belgium is much less the chaos that some see, but is definitely complex and thus interesting.
Thanks for your essay, and count on me to generate positive PR about it !
Jean-François Burguet
Expatriate Belgian, Milan (Italy)
(*) Notorious adopted Belgian & multi-prize winner, including Noble’s:
http://order.ph.utexas.edu/people/Prigogine.htm