This paper extends an epistemologically grounded biological theory of organization and knowledge based on Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology and three worlds ontology, amalgamating concepts from evolutionary biology, emergence and hierarchy theory, autopoiesis, and military affairs. We...

In this article, the adaptative and learning processes are analysed in point of view of both the biologist and the engineer, using as much as possible the same terms. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

The article shows that the repartition of the maximum entropy is the uniform repartition and contains the highest disorder degree which means the highest quantity of information in potential status. Entropy which measures the disorder is not opposite to the Quantity of Information (the dimension...

In a few years ago, neuroscientists and marketing met were pleasant and had with a child: neuromarketing. Which now grows in one year in three others. The Marketing departments can predict exactly what happens in the minds of consumers and how they react to market stimuli, the offers, prices and...

This paper investigates an attempt to combine different simulation tools in order to build a simulation environment that can be used to model complex system behaviour. The component tools used in the project are: the four phase method, a simulation world view derived from the three phase...

The article gives an account on the progress made in the study and modeling of the adaptive and learning processes and opens new outlooks for future research. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

In this article we address some fundamental questions concerning information: Can the existing laws of physics adequately deal with the most striking property of information, namely to cause specific changes in the structure and energy flows of a complex system, without the information in itself...