Malcolm Dean

Research Affiliate, Human Complex Systems, UCLA; Cognitive Affinity Group, Brain Research Institute. Author, editor, and broadcast journalist.

Working Papers

"God-objects in Computational Ontology," forthcoming
"The Deathless in Ancient Greece and India," UC Berkeley, October 31, 2009
"Recent Advances in Cognitive Thermodynamics," Invited Speaker, JETC-10, Niels Bohr Institute, June 22-24, 2009
"The Gods Have Spoken: Descartes Must Die!" IRST/SAC, Yale, 2008
"Cognition in Materiality," UCI HSC, 2008
"From Cosmogenesis to Extended Cognition," UCLA HCS, November 7, 2007
"Exorcising Entropy," SCTPLS, Orange, July 29, 2007
"Hitchhiker's Guide to (Cognitive) Thermodynamics," UCLA BRI, May 21, 2007
"Theology of Information," EOR, Hawaii, January 5, 2007
"Outline of Cognitive Thermodynamics," SCTPLS, Denver, August 5, 2005
"Cognitive Thermodynamics in Culture & Religion," SSSR, Kansas City, Oct 22, 2004
"General Theory of Cognitive Systems," UCLA BRI, May 13, 2004
Former Principal Editor, Academic Computing, UCLA
Contributor: Los Angeles Times, O'Reilly.com, Maximum Linux, XML Journal

Interests - Unified theories of cognition, culture, and religious systems. Natural philosophy of Thermodynamics, Information, and Ontology.