Global Brain Institute

07/01/2026

Francis Heylighen's Substack, "The Self-Organizing Universe", now hosts over a dozen essays, with weekly additions, on topics related to the Global Brain and the Noosphere. As a recent comment noted "What a great read, clear, well grounded and optimistic. I strongly recommend to also read the linked research paper for more details."
Check it out and subscribe if you are interested: https://francisheylighen.substack.com/

26/11/2025

Francis Heylighen now has a blog on Substack: the Self-Organizing Universe. Here is the latest installment. Subscribe if you want to receive further essays and reflections on complexity and collective intelligence...

Research on the emergence and evolution of complex systems—and in particular mind, life, and society. Making sense of complexity and confusion by showing how everything eventually fits together in a larger whole. Click to read The Self-Organizing Universe - Francis Heylighen, a Substack publicatio...

01/07/2021

Building capacity for cultivation of extraordinary intelligence in individuals and groups ● Toolkit for progressive cutting-edge methods and frameworks of thinking ● Intense workout for the intellect: disciplined yet open-ended

15/07/2019

Francis Heylighen, Free University of Brussels. Presented at the IS4SI 2019 Summit in Berkeley, California. https://is4si.org

15/07/2019

Presented at the International Society for the Study of Information 2019 Summit in Berkeley, California. Francis Heylighen is a Research Professor at the Fre...

24/06/2019

Our "School of Thinking" postgraduate degree at the VUB in Brussels now accepts applications. If you need to deal with complex problem that cut across borders and disciplines, you will learn how to come up with ideas that are both creative and critical, analytic and synthetic.

Info and applications at http://schoolofthinking.be

19/06/2019

A recent talk on whether the Global Brain could become conscious. Video will become available soon

24/05/2019

The Global Brain Institute is part of the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies:
https://www.facebook.com/centerleoapostel/

The Centre Leo Apostel (CLEA) is transdisciplinary research and education centre at the VUB

17/10/2017

Li Xiubo presents on the utility of practical complex adaptive system reasoning in design of cities infrastructure

11/10/2017

ECCO Seminars start again this semester with Clément Vidal's perspective on cosmic meaning