CENTER LEO APOSTEL Vrije Universiteit Brussel

CLEA Working Reports

The following papers have been recently written by collaborators of the Center "Leo Apostel".

Diederik Aerts:

• Time, Space and Reality and Modern Physics
• Relativity Theory: what is Reality? (LaTeX format)
• Towards a framework for possible unification of quantum and relativity theories (LaTeX format)
• Het meemaken van de wereld: een reflectie over onderzoek en onderwijs in onze hedendaagse veranderende maatschappij
• The hidden-measurement-formalism: what can be explained and where quantum paradoxes remain (TeX format, figures in EPS: fig1, fig2, fig3, fig4, fig5)

Diederik Aerts and Bob Coecke

• The creation-discovery-view : towards a possible explanation of quantum reality (TeX format, figures in EPS: fig1, fig2, fig3, fig4)

Diederik Aerts and Sven Aerts:

• The Hidden Measurement Approach to Quantum Mechanics (LaTeX format)

Johan Bollen & Francis Heylighen:

• Algorithms for the Self-Organisation of Distributed, Multi-User Networks

Francis Heylighen:

• The Economy as a Distributed, Learning Control System
• Classic Publications on Complex, Evolving Systems: a citation-based survey
• The Growth of Structural and Functional Complexity during Evolution
• Towards a Global Brain. Integrating Individuals into the World-Wide Electronic Network
• Objective, subjective and intersubjective selectors of knowledge

Francis Heylighen & Johan Bollen:

• The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: from metaphor to model

Bertin Martens:

• Towards a Generalised Coase Theorem
• On the Problem of Appropriation
• Innovation, Increasing Complexity and the Need for a New Paradigm in Economics

Ernest Mathijs & Bert Mosselmans:

• Similarity or Difference : The Case for Interdisciplinarity between Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Art and Aesthetics
• Petrella in Wonderland? De Groep van Lissabon en het rijk van de schaarste
• Van Daedalus tot Pygmalion. Kunst in het antropometrische stadium

Eric Rosseel:

• The Historical-Anthropological Origins of the Association between Objective Science and Masculinity
• The Crisis of the Self, Postmodernity and African Urban Culture
• Hendrik De Man & the Contemporary (Ir)relevance of Ethical Socialism
• Persons, Lifes and Histories: an attempt to a critic of the study of (single) persons in psychohistory and political psychology (all available at the CLEA secretariat)

An Vranckx:

• Science, Fiction & the Appeal of Complexity