Recent accounts of social cognition focus on how we do things together, suggesting that
becoming aligned relies on a reciprocal exchange of information. The next step is to develop …

The physical origin of behaviour in biological organisms is distinct from those of non-living
systems in one significant way: organisms exhibit intentionality or goal-directed behaviour …

Self-organization in nonequilibrium systems has been known for over 50 years. Under
nonequilibrium conditions, the state of a system can become unstable and a transition to an …

The place of living organisms in the natural world is a nearly perennial question in
philosophy and the sciences; how can inanimate matter yield animate beings? A dominant …

Coordination within and between organisms is one of the most complex abilities of living
systems, requiring the concerted regulation of many physiological constituents, and this …

The collective behavior of colloids in microsystems is characterized by precise micro-object
control, broadening the applications of cargo manipulation in drug delivery, microfluidics …

In this paper, I explore the possibility that the creation of art involves a version of the
coordination problem that lies at the center of the ecological approach to movement. Both …

All organisms depend on a supply of energetic resources to power behavior and the
irreversible entropy-producing processes that sustain them. Dissipative structure theory has …

In the second half of the twentieth century, it was recognized that systems far from
thermodynamic equilibrium can spontaneously self-organize into structures that exhibit …

Cognitive science tends to accept the implicit assumption that organisms are a
conglomeration of equilibrium structures which operate as a machine. This assumption has …