Publicaties

The human mind’s evolution owes much to its companion phenomena of intelligence, sapience,wisdom, awareness and consciousness. In this paper we take the concepts of intelligence and sapienceas the starting point of a route towards elucidation of the conscious mind. There is muchdisagreement and confusion associated with the word intelligence. A lot of this results from its usein diverse contexts, where it is called upon to represent different ...

We strongly believe that high levels of conceptual consciousness are impossible without embodiment, and that therefore any idea that consciousness could transcend the physicality of life is mistaken. The derivation of consciousness from lower more localized forms of awareness poses a more pragmatic question: why, from a high level of consciousness, are we apparently unaware of these lower awarenesses? The adoption of a carrier-plus-signal ...

In the Hierarchy Theory SIG of the 2006 ISSS meeting in Sonoma we presented a paper entitled "Living in Hyperscale: Internalization as a Search for Reunification", which concluded as follows:
"We view our universe's evolution, and its entire post-'big bang' history, as an assembly of interacting individual attempts to 'turn back the clock' to the intimate unification of a pre-'big bang' state."
The core underlying hypothesis of our ...

With the rise of internet-connected devices a novel approach for application testing and validation is required. This paper explores the possibility to test hyper-scale Internet of Things environments using state-of-the-art simulation techniques. More specifically, a Software In The Loop simulation (SIL) method is introduced which enables the interaction between virtual simulated models and actual real-life Internet of Things devices. ...

We address the nature of information from a systemic structural point of view. Starting from
the Natural hierarchy of living systems, we elucidate its decomposition into two partial hierarchies
associated with its extant levels and inter-level regions, respectively. External observation of a
hierarchical system involves the generation of approximate hyperscalar representations of these two
partials, which then reintegrate to ...

We develop a general framework for computing the holographic 2-point functions and the corresponding conductivities in asymptotically locally AdS backgrounds with an electric charge density, a constant magentic field, and possibly non-trivial scalar profiles, for a broad class of Einstein-Maxwell-Axion-Dilaton theories, including certain Chern-Simons terms. Holographic renormalization is carried out for any theory in this class and the ...

Examination of the scale properties of living organisms and the electronic configuration of crystalline structures suggests that related modeling may be used for both. This paper comments on individual and common properties of the two systems and draws a comparison between them. Both exhibit multiple 'scales' separated by complex or forbidden regions and a global 'overview' of their scale properties. We conclude that the analogy may provide a ...

Examination of the scalar properties of living organisms and the electronic configuration of crystalline structures suggests that related modeling may be used for both. This paper comments on individual and common properties of the two systems and draws a comparison between them. Both exhibit multiple 'scales' separated by complex or forbidden regions and a global 'overview' of their scalar properties. We conclude that the analogy may provide a ...

We develop a hierarchical model for an organism which is primarily
based on structural scale. This is then compared with the Kronig-Penney model
for electron propagation in a crystal. Both models exhibit similar multi-level
structure, where the levels are separated by complex or forbidden regions. We
conclude that cross-modeling between natural hierarchy and electron band
structures may help in formulating future models ...