Documentary Resources

• Enactivating a Cognitive Fusion Reactor: Imaginal Transformation of Energy Resourcing (2006)
• Complementarity and Self-Reflexivity -- between nuclear fusion and cognitive fusion (2006)
• Dematerialization and Virtualization: comparison of nuclear fusion and cognitive fusion (2006)
• Coactive Contextual Relationships necessary underdefinition and resonant associations of ITER-8 (2006)
• Cognitive Fusion through Myth and Symbol Making: archetypal dimensions (2006)
• Reframing Sustainable Sources of Energy for the Future the vital role of psychosocial variants (2006)
• Psychosocial Energy from Polarization within a Cyclic Pattern of Enantiodromia (2007)
• Energy Patterns in Conferences: weaving patterns of information as a context for higher levels of integration (1988)

Collections of documents on laetus in praesens website

• Documents relating to Existential engagement and embodiment
• Documents relating to Diversity, variety, typology
• Documents relating to Systems, complexity, loops, maths
• Documents relating to Synthesis, transdisciplinarity and integration
• Documents relating to Comprehension and communicability
• Documents relating to Time: futures, present moment, history
• Documents relating to Configurations and patterns
• Documents relating to Paradigm change, social transformation
• Documents relating to Alternation, dynamics, movement
• Documents relating to Polarization, dilemmas, duality
• Documents relating to Metaphor for governance
• Documents relating to Sustainable development
• Documents relating to Community, lifestyle, occupation

Other documentary resources

• David Abram. The Spell of the Sensuous : Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. Vintage, 1997
• Christopher R. Agnew, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Caryl E. Rusbult, Christopher A. Langston. Cognitive Interdependence: Commitment and the Mental Representation of Close Relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1998, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp 939-954 [text]
• Verna Allee. Knowledge Evolution: building organizational intelligence. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997
• Karen Armstrong. A Short History of Myth. Melbourne, Canongate, 2005
• Ron Atkin:
  • Combinatorial Connectivities in Social Systems : an application of simplicial complex structures to the study of large organizations, Birkhauser, 1977
  • Multi-Dimensional Man: can man live in 3 dimensions?. London, Penguin, 1981 (see summary of argument http://www.uia.org/strategy/141alt.htm)
• Cor Baerveldt & Theo Verheggen. Enactivism and the Experiential Reality of Culture: rethinking the epistemological basis of cultural psychology. Culture & Psychology, 5, 1999, 2, pp 183-206 [text]
• Gregory Bateson. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
• Michael L. Best. Models for Interacting Populations of Memes: Competition and Niche Behavior. Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 1, 1997 [text]
• David Bohm. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.
• Erik.P. Blasch, Scott N. Watamaniuk, and Peter Svenmarck. Cognitive-based fusion using information sets for moving target recognition. In Ivan Kadar, editor, Proc. Ninth Conf. Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition, SPIE volume 4052, pages 208-217, Orlando: FL, 24-28 2000.
• M. A. Boden. The Creative Mind: myths and mechanisms. London, Weidenfield and Nicholson,1990.
• Kenneth Boulding. Ecodynamics; a new theory of social evolution, 1978
• Line Brandt. Conceptual Integration (Working paper, revision 4.0), November 2002 [text]
• Dolores Brien. Today’s Magnum Opus of the Soul. The Round Table Review, January/February 1999, pp. 13-17 [text]
• Donald T Campbell: Ethnocentrism of Disciplines and the Fish Scale Model of Omniscience. In: M. Sherif/C.W. Sherif (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Relationships in the Social Sciences. Chicago, 1969, pp. 328-348.
• James P. Carse. Finite and Infinite Games: a vision of life as play and possibility. Ballantine Books; 1987
• Henry Corbin:
  • The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism. 1971
  • Mundus imaginalis: or, the Imaginary and the Imaginal. Golgonooza Press, 1976 [summary]
• R. Corrao and G. Fulantelli. Cognitive accessibility to information on the Web: insights from a system for teaching and learning Architecture through the Net [text]
• Seana Coulson. Semantic Leaps: frame-shifting and conceptual blending in meaning construction. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
• Seana Coulson & Todd Oakley (Eds):
  • Conceptual Blending: Representation, Principles, Processes. Amsterdam: John H. Benjamins, 2006
  • Journal of Pragmatics, 37, 2005, 10 (special issue on Conceptual Blending Theory)
• Seana Coulson & Cyma Van Petten. Conceptual Integration and Metaphor: an event-related potential study. Memory & Cognition 2002, 30 (6), pp 958-968
• Antonio de Nicolás. Meditations through the Rg Veda. Boulder, Shambhala, 1978
• Joël de Rosnay. The Symbiotic Man: a new understanding of the organization of life and a vision of the future. New York, McGraw Hill, 2000
• Max Deutscher. Subjecting and Objecting : an essay in objectivity. St Lucia (Queensland), University of Queensland Press, 1983
• Douglas Engelbart. Augmenting Human Intellect; a conceptual framework. Menlo Park, Stanford Research Institute, 1962 (AFOSR-3223)
• Paul Evering (Ed). Creating Whole Organization Synergy: the Eidetic reference book. Toronto, Evering Consultants, 2000 [synopsis]
• Gilles Fauconnier:
  • Mappings in Thought and Language. Cambridge University Press, 1997
  • Conceptual Intgration. Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition (EDEC2001), 2001 [text]
  • Magical Rituals and Conceptual Blending, 2003 [text]
• Gilles Fauconnier & Mark Turner:
  • The Way We Think: conceptual blending and the mind's hidden complexities. Basic Books, 2002
  • Conceptual Integration Networks. Cognitive Science, 22, 1998, 2 , pp 133-187.
• Paul Feyerabend:
  • Against Method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge, 1975
  • Conquest of Abundance: a tale of abstraction versus the richness of being, 1999
• R Buckminster Fuller. Synergetics; explorations in the geometry of thinking. New York, Collier, 2 vols 1975/1982
• E Gendlin:
  • Focusing. New York: Bantam, 1978.
  • Thinking beyond patterns. In B. den Ouden and M. Moen (Eds.), The Presence of Feeling in Thought. New York: Peter Lang, 1991.
• Wolfgang Giegerich. Opposition of ‘Individual’ and ‘Collective’ -- Psychology’s Basic Fault: Reflections on Today’s Magnum Opus of the Soul.  Harvest, Journal for Jungian Studies, 1996, V. 42, No. 2, pp. 7-27.
• Joseph A. Goguen:
  • Formal Notation for Conceptual Blending. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD, 2001
  • Ontology, Society, and Ontotheology. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD, 2004 [text]
• Pierre Gohar. From the man-of-matter to the Man-of-Light: myth or reality ? (Paper presented at CESNUR 2002 International Conference, Salt Lake City and Provo) [text]
• Susantha Goonatilake. Toward a Global Science: mining civilizational knowledge. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999
• J Grady, T Oakley & S Coulson. Conceptual Blending and Metaphor. In R. Gibbs (Ed.), Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999, pp.101-124 [text]
• O Grulke and T Klinger. Large-scale fluctuation structures in plasma turbulence. New Journal of Physics 4, 2002, 67.1-67.23 [text]
• Rick Grush & Nili Mandelblit. Blending in language, conceptual structure, and the cerebral cortex. International Journal of Linguistics Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Volume 29, 1997, pp 221-237 (The Roman Jakobson Centennial Symposium)
• Neil J. Gunthera and Giordano B. Berettab. Towards Practical Design Rules for Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging Devices. 2005 [text]
• Patrick A. Heelan:
  • Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988
  • The logic of changing classificatory frameworks. In: J A Wojciechowski (Ed). Conceptual Basis of the Classification of Knowledge. München, K G Saur, 1974, pp 260-274
• Anders Hougaard. How're we doing: an interactional approach to cognitive processes of online meaning construction. 2005.
• Edwin Hutchins:
  • Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press, 1995 [introduction]
  • Material Anchors for Conceptual Blends. Journal of Pragmatics, 37, 2005, 10 (special issue on Conceptual Blending Theory)
• G. Jakobson, L. Lewis, J. Buford. An Approach to Integrated Cognitive Fusion. In:  Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Fusion, 2004 [text]
• E. Jantsch:
  • Design for Evolution; self-organization and planning in the life of human systems. New York, Braziller, 1975.
  • Towards interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in education and innovation. In: Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Interdisciplinarity; problems of teaching and research in universities. Paris, OECD, 1972.
• E. Jantsch and C H Waddington (Eds). Evolution and Consciouness; human systems in transition. Reading, Addison-Wesley, 1976.
• Mark Johnson. The Body in the Mind; the bodily basis of meaning, imagination and reason. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1987
• C. G. Jung:
  • Alchemical Studies. Collected Works, Volume 13. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. (Originally published 1942.)
  • Mysterium Coniunctionis. Collected Works, Volume 14. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. (Originally published 1955-56.)
• J. R. Kendal and K. N. Laland. Mathematical Models for Memetics. Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 4, 2000. [text]
• Arthur. Koestler. The Act of Creation. Arkana: Penguin Books. 1989
• George Lakoff. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. University of Chicago Press, 1990
• George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez. Where Mathematics Comes From: how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being. Basic Books, 2001
• George Lakoff and Mark Johnson:
  • Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press, 1980
  • Philosophy in the Flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought, 1999
• Ervin Laszlo:
  • Science and the Akashic Field: an integral Theory of Everything. Inner Traditions International, 2004
  • The Connectivity Hypothesis: foundations of an integral science of quantum, cosmos, life, and consciousness. State University of New York Press, 2003
• Chris Lucas:
  • Strange Attractors and Society. 2005 [text]
  • Synergy and Complexity Science. 2006 [text]
  • Complex Living Tensegrities. 2006 [text]
  • Spiral Complexity Dynamics, 2006 [text]
• B. Magnini, J. Bateman and G. Fabris. The generalized upper model knowledge base: Organization and use. Towards very large knowledge bases: knowledge building and knowledge sharing, 1995.
• C. J. Matheus, M.M.Kokar, and K.Baclawski. A Core Ontology for Situation Awareness. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information Fusion, pages 545--552, 2003.
• Humberto Maturana, and Francisco J. Varela. The Tree of Knowledge; the biological roots of human understanding. Boston, Shambhala, 1987
• John McCarthy and Patrick J. Hayes. Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence. Machine Intelligence, 4, 1969, pp 463-502
• Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. The Limits to Growth. New York, University Books, 1972 (promoted by the Club of Rome).
• Arthur I. Miller. Imagery in Scientific Thought; creating 20th century physics. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1986
• C. Muses. Hypernumber and metadimension theory. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1, 1968, 29-48.
• Kinhide Mushakoji. Global Issues and Interparadigmatic Dialogue; essays on multipolar politics. Torino: Albert Meynier, 1988
• V. V. Nalimov:
  • Realms of the Unconscious: the enchanted frontier. Philadelphia, ISI Press, 1982 [review]
  • In the Labyrinths of Language: a mathematician's journey. Philadelphia, ISI Press, 1981
• Jeremy Narby:
  • The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the origins of knowledge. Tarcher, 1999 [summary | summary]
  • Intelligence in Nature: an inquiry into knowledge. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005 [summary]
• Ivan Novosel. Mind and Brain, Chaos and Quantum Mechanics, 2005 [text]
• Jay F. Nunamaker Jr., Nicholas C. Romano Jr and Robert Owen Briggs. Increasing Intellectual Bandwidth: generating value from intellectual capital with information technology. Group Decision and Negotiation, 11, 2, March 2002, pp 69 - 86 [abstract]
• Kent D Palmer. On the Social Construction of Emergent Worlds: the foundations of reflexive autopoietic systems theory. 1996 [text]
• F. David Peat:
  • Alchemical Transformation: Consciousness and Matter, Form and Information, 1995 [text]
  • Containment and Growth [text]
  • The Alchemy of Creativity: Art, Consciousness and Embodiment [text]
  • Non-Linear Dynamics (Chaos Theory) and its Implications for Policy Planning [text]
  • Gentle Action: Surviving Chaos and Change [text]
• Francisco Câmara Pereira. A Computational Model of Creativity (Thesis on conceptual blending)
• Francisco Câmara Pereira & Amílcar Cardoso:
  • Knowledge Integration with Conceptual Blending [text]
  • Conceptual Blending and the Quest for the Holy Creative Process. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Creative Systems: Approaches to Creativity in AI and Cognitive Science, ECAI 2002, Lyon, France, 2002 [text]
  • Optimality Principles for Conceptual Blending: A First Computational Approach [text]
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Phenomenology of Perception. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.
• George Pór:
  • The Quest for Collective Intelligence, 1999 [text]
  • Designing for the Emergence of a Global-scale Collective Intelligence: Invitation to a Research Collaboration, 2001 [text]
  • Designing Knowledge Ecosystems for Communities of Practice, 1997 [text]
• Darrell Posey (Ed). Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity: a complementary contribution to Global Biodiversity Assessment. London, Intermediate Technology, 1999 (for the United Nations Environment Programme)
• David Ritchie. Categories and Similarities: a note on circularity . ‌Metaphor and Symbol 2003, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp 49-53 [text]
• Robert D Romanyshyn:
  • Technology as Symptom and Dream. London, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1989 [interview]
  • Psychological Life: from science to metaphor. University of Texas Press, 1982
• Steven M. Rosen (Ed.). Science, Paradox, and the Moebius Principle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
• Steven M. Rosen. Wholeness as the Body of Paradox. 1996 [text]
• Peter Russell. The Global Brain Awakens: our next evolutionary leap. Global Brain, Inc., 1995
• Beate Schwichtenberg. Blending in action: diagrams reveal conceptual integration in routine activity. Cognitive Science Online, Vol.1, pp.34–45, 2003
• R. G. H. Siu:
  • The Tao of Science: an essay on Western Knowledge and Eastern Wisdom. MIT Press, 1957.
  • Ch'i: a Neo-Taoist approach to life. MIT Press, 1974.
  • Transcending the Power Game: the way to executive serenity. Wiley Press, 1980. , 1980
  • The Craft of Power, Wiley Press, 1979
• G. Spencer Brown. Laws of Form. London, Allen and Unwin, 1969
• Mark Turner (Ed). The Artful Mind: cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity. Oxford University Press, 2006 [contents]
• Francisco Varela. Laying Down a Path in Walking: essays on enactive cognition. New York, , Zone Books/MIT Press, 1997
• Francisco Varela, F. E. Thompson, and E. Rosch. The Embodied Mind: cognitive science and human experience. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1991
• T. Veale and D O'Donoghue. Computation and Blending. Cognitive Linguistics (special Issue on Conceptual Blending), 11, 2000, 3/4, pp 253-281
• Parul Watzlawick (Ed). The Invented Reality: contributions to constructivism. New York, W W Norton, 1984
• G. A. Wiggins. Towards a more precise characterisation of creativity in AI. In: C. Bento and A. Cardoso (Eds.), Procs. of Workshop Program of ICCBR - Creative Systems: Approaches to Creativity in AI and Cognitive Science, 2001
• Arthur M. Young. The Geometry of Meaning. Boston, Delacourt Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1978