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Projections of Earth's technosphere

Acta Astronautica
2025-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.01.048
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Contributors: Jacob Haqq-Misra; Clément Vidal; George Profitiliotis
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What is the noosphere? Planetary superorganism, major evolutionary transition and emergence

Systems Research and Behavioral Science
2024-07-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1002/sres.2997
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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The Spider Stellar Engine: a Fully Steerable Extraterrestrial Design?

Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
2024-05 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.59332/jbis-077-05-0156
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ARXIV: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05038v1
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Reintroducing the direction of evolution

Religion, Brain and Behavior
2023 | Other | Author
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2143405
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Extending Planetary Health

Humanistic Management Journal
2023-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s41463-023-00146-8
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Ethics and Complexity

Humanism and its Discontents
2022 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67004-7_12
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Part of ISBN: 978-3-030-67004-7
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Contributors: Clément Vidal; Francis Heylighen
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
2021-11-26 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s40656-021-00475-7
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Technosignatures as a Priority in Planetary Science

Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
2021-03-18 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3847/25c2cfeb.93bdfe43
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Contributors: Sofia Sheikh; Anamaria Berea; Ross Davis; Gabriel G. De la Torre; Julia DeMarines; Theresa Fisher; Searra Foote; Dawn Gelino; David Grinspoon; George Profitiliotis et al.
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Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineering

International Journal of Astrobiology
2019 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1017/S147355041700043X
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Universal Ethics: Organized Complexity as an Intrinsic Value

Evolution, Development and Complexity: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems
2019 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1172976
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Part of ISBN: 978-3-030-00075-2
Part of ISBN: 978-3-030-00074-5
Contributors: J. P. Delahaye; Clément Vidal
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Organized Complexity: is Big History a Big Computation?

American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers
2018 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Jean-Paul Delahaye; Clément Vidal
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Millisecond Pulsars as Standards: Timing, Positioning and Communication

2017 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal; P. Weltevrede; B. B. P. Perera; L. Levin Preston; S. Sanidas
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Stellivore extraterrestrials? Binary stars as living systems

Acta Astronautica
2016 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.06.038
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Is there a limit to technological progress?

2016-12-19 | Other | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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A Multidimensional Impact Model for the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life

The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth
2015 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781107109988
Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Distributing Cognition: From Local Brains to the Global Brain

The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity
2015 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 978-0692457665
Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Cosmological Immortality: How to Eliminate Aging on a Universal Scale

Current Aging Science
2014 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective

The Frontiers Collection
2014-04 | Book | Author
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ISBN: 978-3-319-05061-4
Contributors: Clément Vidal
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A Day in 2060

2013 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Artificial Cosmogenesis: A New Kind of Cosmology

Irreducibility and Computational Equivalence
2013 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 978-3-642-35481-6
Contributors: Clément Vidal
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PhD Argumentative Maps

2013 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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The Beginning and The End: Cosmological Speculation and the Meaning of Life

2013 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Foundations for a Mathematical Model of the Global Brain: architecture, components, and specifications

2012 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Francis Heylighen; Evo Busseniers; Viktoras Veitas; Clément Vidal; David Weinbaum
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Metaphilosophical Criteria for Worldview Comparison

Metaphilosophy
2012-04-11 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Fine-tuning, Quantum Mechanics and Cosmological Artificial Selection

Foundations of Science
2012-03 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Two Purposes of Black Hole Production

Foundations of Science
2012-03 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Black holes: attractors for intelligence?

Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, 4/10/10
2011 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Analysis of Some Speculations Concerning the Far-Future of Intelligent Civilizations

Foundations of Science
2010 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Computational and Biological Analogies for Understanding Fine-Tuned Parameters in Physics

Foundations of Science
2010 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Le Cerveau Planétaire: Analyse critique de l'analogie entre le cerveau et Internet

Yann Leroux
2009-09-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal; Yann Leroux
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Getting Things Done: the science behind stress-free productivity

Long Range Planning
2008 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Francis Heylighen; Clément Vidal
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The Future of Scientific Simulations: from Artificial Life to Artificial Cosmogenesis

Death And Anti-Death, Volume 6: Thirty Years After Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
2008-12-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 1-934297-03-8
Contributors: Clément Vidal; Charles Tandy
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Wat is een wereldbeeld?

Nieuwheid denken. De wetenschappen en het creatieve aspect van de werkelijkheid
2008-09-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 978-90-334-7078-3
Contributors: Clément Vidal; Hubert Van Belle; J. Van Der Veken
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An Enduring Philosophical Agenda: Worldview Construction as a Philosophical Method.

2007-02-01 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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Le Commentaire Ouvert.

2005-06-01 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Clément Vidal
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