General Evolution Research Group

"The General Evolution Research Group (GERG) began with a secret meeting in Budapest in 1984 of scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain during a critical juncture in the Cold War. Spurred by the mounting threat to our species of rapid nuclear proliferation and overkill, the purpose was to see if it might be possible to use the chaos theory then coming into vogue to develop a new general theory of evolution that might serve as a road map for our species out of the mounting chaos of our times to the reassuring order of a better world...

"A vital part of GERG is our journal, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.

"We serve very loosely as the research arm to The Club of Budapest, a prestigious group for advancing humanity also founded by Ervin Laszlo."


 * Founder - Ervin Laszlo

Members
Accessed December 2011:


 * Ervin Laszlo - systems philosopher, Italy, Founder *
 * Peter Allen - thermodynamicist, Great Brittain
 * Robert Artigiani - historian, United States
 * Ralph Abraham - mathematician and chaos theorist, United States, Co-Founder *
 * Singa Sandelin Benko - psychologist, Sweden
 * Kenneth Bausch - systems scientist, United States *
 * Gianluca Bocchi - historian, Italy
 * Thomas Bernold - management theorist, Switzerland
 * Raymond Bradley - sociologist, United States *
 * Bela A.Banathy - computer scientist, United States
 * Bela H. Banathy - systems scientist, United States
 * Alexander Christakis - systems scientist, United States *
 * Allan Combs - psychologist, United States *
 * Miriam Campanella - political scientist, Italy
 * Mauro Ceruti - philosopher, Italy
 * Eric Chaisson - astrophysicist, United States, Co-Founder *
 * John Corliss - biologist, United States, Co-Founder
 * Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - psychologist, United States *
 * Vilmos Csanyi - biologist, Hungary, Co-Founder *
 * Duane Elgin - systems scientist, United States
 * Riane Eisler - cultural historian, United States, Co-Founder *
 * Sally Goerner - psychologist, United States *
 * Attila Grandpierre - systems scientist, France
 * Susantha Goonatillake - information theorist, Sri Lanka
 * Mae-Wan Ho - biophysicist, Great Brittain *
 * John Hisnanick - economist, United States *
 * Min Jianin - philosopher, China *
 * Stanley Krippner - psychologist, United States *
 * Jurgen Kurths - physicist, Germany
 * Gyorgy Kampis - computer scientist, Hungary, Co-Founder *
 * David Loye - psychologist and systems scientist, United States, Co-Founder *
 * Alexander Laszlo - systems scientist, United States *
 * Kathia Laszlo - systems scientist, United States *
 * Eduard Makarjan - ecological philosopher, Russia
 * Ignacio Masulli - historian, Italy
 * Pentti Malaska - economist and management scientist, Finland
 * *[[Alfonso Montuori - systems scientist, United States *
 * Mika Pantzar - management scientist, Finland
 * Ilya Prigogine - thermodynamacist, Belgium (deceased)
 * Karl Pribram - brain scientist, United States
 * Gerlind Rurik - educator, Germany
 * Maria Sagi - psychologist, Hungary *
 * Peter Saunders - mathematical biologist, Great Brittain
 * Stanley Salthe - biologist, United States *
 * Jonathan Schull - psychologist, United States, Co-Founder
 * Rudolf Treumann - physicist, Germany
 * Francisco Varela - biologist, France (deceased)

(* currently active)

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 * International Society for the Systems Sciences