Attention to the relationship between nature and society has been a defining feature of
environmental sociology since its inception. Early research, incorporating insights from …

Teilhard de Chardin developed an evolutionary vision of our planetary future, currently
developing from a sphere of life, or biosphere towards a sphere of mind, or noosphere. As a …

How can we think about a universal ethics that could be adopted by any intelligent being,
including the rising population of cyborgs, intelligent machines, intelligent algorithms, or …

Predicting how an individual will perceive the visual complexity of a piece of information is
still a relatively unexplored domain, although it can be useful in many contexts such as for …

Pulsars have at least two impressive applications. First, they can be used as highly accurate
clocks, comparable in stability to atomic clocks; secondly, a small subset of pulsars …

The energy rate density (ERD) metric is the central scientific measure underlying all of big
history. It measures the rate at which free energy transits in a complex system of a given …

Many different theoretical fields internal to the symbolic order attempt to ground a universal
view of reality. In this work we focus on big history as an example of such an attempt to …

Les travaux de recherche menés dans le cadre de cette thèse ont pour objectif de contribuer
à trois problématiques liées à la nature de l'information, à sa perception et à sa transmission …

L'effet de la forme de l'information transmise sur les intentions et les comportements de
mobilité urbaine est examiné dans ce travail doctoral. Cette thèse par article vise à apporter …

Information and computation theories are a mathematical field for understanding computers,
talking about their power, measuring and comparing algorithms, and giving a precise …