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[–]ghostprototype[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

sidenote: Francis Heylighen, one of the authors, is an interesting dude. His specialty is cybernetics but he's written on the topic of gifted people, self-actualization, memetics, emergent intelligence, and self-organizing systems

[–]onemoredaydream 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you recommend any of his other work in particular?

[–]ghostprototype[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I originally discovered him through the Global Brain theory which is pretty interesting, he and some other scientists made Principia Cybernetica based on it (it's pretty dated out but still a good read) - http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/SUPORGLI.html

But my favorite is memetics, it's a fascinating subject. 'What makes a meme successful? Selection criteria for cultural evolution (1998)' is a good one - http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Memetics-Namur.pdf

his scholar google page - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jt7BHBUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&pagesize=100