43rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Systems Sciences,
at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, June 26 to
July 2, 1999
Monday, June 28, 1999 (1:15 to 3:15 p.m.)
Paper Session
Chair: Larry Edwards
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A. Igamberdiev and I.Rojdestvenski, "Coherence as a Basis of Computational
Properties in Living Systems"
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Yong Pil Rhee, "New Paradigm of Self-Organization for the Study of Social
Systems"
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Simeon Hein, "Resonant Viewing and The Evolution of Human Consciousness"
Tuesday, June 30, 1999 (1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.)
Paper Session [Evolution of Political Systems]
Chair: Bill Shireman
Discussants: Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt and James Simms
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Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd, "Complex Societies: The Evolutionary
Origins of a Crude Superorganism"
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Robert North and Nazli Choucri, "Globalization: "Soft" Variables, "Hard"
Variables, and Behavioral Paradoxes"
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Peter A. Corning, "' Devolution' as an Opportunity to Test the Synergism
Hypothesis"
Wednesday, July 1, 1999 (1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.)
Paper Session [Epic of Evolution]
Chair: Brian Swimme
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Larry Edwards, "From Mechanism to Spirituality"
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Molly Dwyer, "Complexity and the Emergent Feminine: A Cosmological Inquiry
into the Role of the Feminine in the Evolution of the Universe"
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Tyrone Cashman, "Does the Darwinian Game Change When the Large-brained
Primates Become the Mirror of Evolution"
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James Fournier Evolution, "Entropy and Work"
Wednesday, July 1, 1999 (3:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.)
Paper Session [Evolution of Consciousness]
Chair: Brian Swimme
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Eric Weiss, "The Experience of space: Chaos theory and the Evolution of
Consciousness"
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Alfonso Montuori, "Complexity and the Evolution of Planetary Culture"
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Sean M. Kelly, "From the Complexity of Consciousness to the Consciousness
of Complexity"
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Regula Wegmann, "Towards the art of thinking with uncertainty"
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