Bruce MacLennan’s Publications

October 17, 2024

Books

  1. Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. Second edition, CBS College Publ., 1987. Third edition, Oxford University Press, 1999. Out of print in USA as of 2006. http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/POPL/index.html .

  2. Functional Programming: Practice and Theory, Addison-Wesley, 1990. In print.

  3. Editor, Theoretical and Technological Advancements in Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation: Interdisciplinary Gains, IGI Global, 2011.

  4. A Course in Unconventional Computation: Analog, Molecular, and Quantum. https://www.amazon.com/Course-Unconventional-Computation-Molecular-Quantum-ebook/dp/B0BYXW2J3Z/ref=sr_1_4 .

  5. The Wisdom of Hypatia: Ancient Spiritual Practices for a More Meaningful Life. Llewellyn, 2013. http:WisdomOfHypatia.com .

  6. Hypatia’s Lecture Notes Reconstructed: A Fourth-century Course in the Platonic Tradition. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hypatia+lecture+notes .

  7. Word and Flux: The Discrete and the Continuous in Computation, Philosophy, and Psychology (Vol. I: From Pythagoras to the Digital Computer: The Intellectual Roots of Symbolic Artificial Intelligence with a Summary of Volume II). http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/WF/WF.pdf .

  8. Foundations of Field Computation, in preparation. http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/FFC.pdf .

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

  1. “Fen — An Axiomatic Basis for Program Semantics,” Communications of the ACM 16, 8 (August, 1973), pp. 468–474. Reprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MacLennan_Fen.pdf

  2. “A Note on Dynamic Arrays in PASCAL,” SIGPLAN Notices 10, 9 (September 1975), pp. 39–40. (non-refereed) Reprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Note_Dynamic_Arrays_Pascal.pdf

  3. “Observations on the Differences Between Formulas and Sentences and their Application to Programming Language Design,” SIGPLAN Notices 14, 7 (July 1979), pp. 51–61. (non-refereed)

  4. “A Simple, Natural Notation for Applicative Languages,” SIGPLAN Notices 17, 10 (October 1982), pp. 43–49. (non-refereed) Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/SNNAL.pdf

  5. “Values and Objects in Programming Languages,” SIGPLAN Notices 17, 12 (December 1982), pp. 70–79. (non-refereed) Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/VOPL.pdf

  6. “Overview of Relational Programming,” SIGPLAN Notices 18, 3 (March 1983), pp. 36–45. (non-refereed) Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ORP.pdf

  7. “Abstraction in the Intel iAPX-432 Prototype Systems Implementation Language,” SIGPLAN Notices 18, 12 (December 1983), pp. 86–95. (non-refereed) Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/APSIL.pdf

  8. “Simple Metrics for Programming Languages,” Information Processing and Management 20, 1–2 (1984), pp. 209–222. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/SMPL.pdf

  9. “On the Validation of Computer Science Theories,” Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Science, J. C. Agrawal and P. Zunde (eds.), Plenum Press, 1985, pp. 311–319. Reprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/OVCST.pdf

  10. “Values and Objects in Programming Languages,” Object-Oriented Computing, Volume 1: Concepts, Gerald E. Peterson (ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1987, pp. 9–14. Reprint of #5. Reprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/VOPL(reprint).pdf

  11. “Technology-Independent Design of Neurocomputers: The Universal Field Computer,” IEEE First Annual International Conference on Neural Networks, June 21–24, 1987. Proceedings, IEEE First International Conference on Neural Networks, Vol. III, pp. 39–49. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/TIDNpublished.pdf

  12. “Four Relational Programs,” SIGPLAN Notices 23, 1 (January 1988), pp. 109–119. (non-refereed) Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/FRP.pdf

  13. “Field Computation: A Model of Massively Parallel Computation in Electronic, Optical, Molecular and Biological Systems,” Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium, Parallel Models of Intelligence: How Can Slow Components Think So Fast?, Stanford, March 22–24, 1988, pp. 180–183. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/FC-AAAI-extabs.pdf

  14. “Logic for the New AI,” Aspects of Artificial Intelligence, J. H. Fetzer (ed.), Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1988, pp. 163–192. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/LNAIpublished.pdf

  15. “Causes and Intentions” (commentary on Dennett’s The Intentional Stance), Behavioral and Brain Science 11, No. 3 (September 1988), pp. 519–520. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CI.pdf

  16. Donald R. Ploch, Bethany K. Dumas, Grayfred H. Gray, Bruce MacLennan, & John Nolt, “Law Reading Experiment,” Pre-Proceedings of the III International Conference, Logica Informatica Diritto: Legal Expert Systems, A. A. Martino (ed.), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la documentazione giuridica, Florence, Italy, November 2–5, 1989, Vol. 2, pp. 681–704.

  17. “The Discomforts of Dualism” (review of Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13, No. 4 (December 1990), pp. 673–674. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/DD.pdf

  18. “Synthetic Ethology: An Approach to the Study of Communication,” Artificial Life II: The Second Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, proceedings Vol. X, edited by Christopher G. Langton, Charles Taylor, J. Doyne Farmer, and Steen Rasmussen. Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley, 1992, pp. 631–658. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/SEASC.pdf

  19. “Characteristics of Connectionist Knowledge Representation,” Information Sciences 70 (1993), pp. 119–143. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CCKR.pdf

  20. “Readability of the Law: Forms of Law for Building Legal Expert Systems,” by Donald R. Ploch, Bethany K. Dumas, Grayfred B. Grey, Bruce J. MacLennan, and John E. Nolt, Jurimetrics 33, 2 (Winter 1993), pp. 189–221. Reprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ReadLaw.pdf

  21. “Visualizing the Possibilities” (review of Johnson-Laird & Byrne’s Deduction), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16, 2 (June 1993), pp. 356–357. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/VP.pdf

  22. “Information Processing in the Dendritic Net,” invited contribution, Rethinking Neural Networks: Quantum Fields and Biological Data, edited by Karl Pribram, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993, pp. 161–197. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/IPDN.pdf

  23. “Field Computation in the Brain,” invited contribution, Rethinking Neural Networks: Quantum Fields and Biological Data, edited by Karl Pribram, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993, pp. 199–232. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/FCB-uc.pdf

  24. “Continuous Symbol Systems: The Logic of Connectionism,” Neural Networks for Knowledge Representation and Inference, edited by Daniel S. Levine and Manuel Aparicio IV, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994, pp. 83–120. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CSS.pdf

  25. “Image and Symbol: Continuous Computation and the Emergence of the Discrete,” invited contribution for book, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks: Steps Toward Principled Integration, edited by Vasant Honavar and Leonard Uhr, New York, NY: Academic Press, 1994, pp. 207–240. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/IS-tr.pdf

  26. “Grounding Analog Computers” (commentary on S. Harnad, “Grounding Symbols in the Analog World with Neural Nets”), Think 2, June 1993, pp. 48–51. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/GAC.pdf

  27. “Synthetic Ethology and the Evolution of Cooperative Communication,” by Bruce J. MacLennan and Gordon M. Burghardt, Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 161–187. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/SEECC.pdf

  28. “Continuous Computation and the Emergence of the Discrete,” invited contribution, Origins: Brain & Self-Organization, edited by Karl Pribram, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994, pp. 121–151. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CCED-tr.pdf

  29. “Legal Expert System Building: Some Ways a Semi-Intelligent Program Makes It Easier,” by Grayfred B. Gray, Bruce J. MacLennan, John E. Nolt & Donald R. Ploch, John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law 12 (1994), pp. 555–583. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/LESB.pdf

  30. “Words Lie in Our Way,” Minds and Machines, special issue on “What is Computation?” Vol. 4, No. 4 (November 1994), pp. 421–437. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/WLIOW.pdf

  31. “A Logic for Statutory Law,” by John Nolt, Grayfred B. Gray, Bruce J. MacLennan, and Donald J. Ploch, Jurimetics 35, 2 (Winter 1995), pp. 121–151. Winner of $1000 Loevinger Award for best paper of year.

  32. “Continuous Formal Systems: A Unifying Model in Language and Cognition,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Architectures for Semiotic Modeling and Situation Analysis in Large Complex Systems, August 27–29, 1995, Monterey, CA, pp. 161–172. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CFS-UMLC.pdf

  33. “The Investigation of Consciousness Through Phenomenology and Neuroscience,” invited contribution, Scale in Conscious Experience: Is the Brain Too Important to be Left to Specialists to Study?, Joseph King & Karl H. Pribram (Eds.), Mahwah: Lawrence-Erlbaum, 1995, pp. 25–43. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ICTPN.pdf

  34. “The Elements of Consciousness and their Neurodynamical Correlates,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 3 (1996), Nos. 5/6, pp. 409–424. Reprinted in Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem, Jonathan Shear (Ed.), Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995–7, pp. 249–66. Reprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ECNCpublished.pdf

  35. “‘Who Cares About Elegance?’ The Role of Aesthetics in Programming Language Design,” SIGPLAN Notices 32, 3 (March 1997), pp. 33-7. (non-refereed) Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Elegance-SNot.pdf

  36. “Field Computation in Motor Control,” invited for Self-Organization, Computational Maps and Motor Control, Advances in Psychology vol. 119, Pietro G. Morasso & Vittorio Sanguineti (eds.), Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1997, pp. 37–73. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/FCMCpublished.pdf

  37. “Finding Order in Our World: The Primacy of the Concrete in Neural Representations and the Role of Invariance in Substance Reidentification,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (1998), pp. 78–79. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/FOW.pdf

  38. “Mixing Memory and Desire: Want and Will in Neural Modeling,” invited contribution, Brain and Values: Is a Biological Science of Values Possible, Karl H. Pribram (Ed.), Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998, pp. 31–42. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MMD-tr.pdf

  39. “Neurophenomenological Constraints and Pushing Back the Subjectivity Barrier,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1999), pp. 961–963. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/NCPBSB.pdf

  40. “Field Computation in Natural and Artificial Intelligence,” Information Sciences 119 (1999), pp. 73–89. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/FCNAIpublished.pdf

  41. “The Emergence of Communication through Synthetic Evolution,” invited contribution, Advances in Evolutionary Synthesis of Neural Systems, edited by Vasant Honavar, Mukesh Patel & Karthik Balakrishnan, MIT Press, 2001, pp. 65–90. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ECSE.pdf

  42. “Connectionist Approaches,” article invited for International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (26 vols.), ed. by Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes, Oxford: Elsevier, 2001, pp. 2568–2573.

  43. “Synthetic Ethology: A New Tool for Investigating Animal Cognition,” invited for The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition, ed. by Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen & Gordon M. Burghardt, MIT Press, 2002, ch. 20, pp. 151–156. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/SENTIAC-tr.pdf

  44. “Continuous Information Representation and Processing in Natural and Artificial Neural Networks,” 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence within 6th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (Research Triangle Park, March 8–13, 2002), pp. 561–565. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CIRP-tr.pdf

  45. “Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter: A Systematic Approach to Nanotechnology,” IEEE Nano 2002 (Second IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology), August 26–28, 2002, Arlington VA. Summary in IEEE Nano 2002 Proceedings, IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 405–8. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/UPIM-Summary.pdf

  46. “Transcending Turing Computability,” invited contribution, Minds and Machines 13 (1): 3–22, February 2003. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/TTC-tr.pdf

  47. “Evolutionary Neurotheology and the Varieties of Religious Experience,” NeuroTheology: Brain, Science, Spirituality, Religious Experience, ed. by Rhawn Joseph, San Jose: University Press, California, 2003, pp. 317–334. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/EvolutionaryNeurotheology-long.pdf

  48. “Color as a Material, not an Optical, Property,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, 1 (February 2003), pp. 37–38. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/maclennan-byrne-hilbert.htm

  49. “Combinatory Logic for Autonomous Molecular Computation,” Special Session on Autonomous Molecular Computation, Sixth International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing (Cary, North Carolina, September 26–30, 2003), summary in Proceedings, 7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, JCIS/Association for Intelligent Machinery, 2003, pp. 1484–7. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CLAMC-IS.pdf

  50. “Natural Computation and Non-Turing Models of Computation,” Theoretical Computer Science 317, Issues 1–3 (June 2004), special issue on Super-Recursive Algorithms and Hypercomputation, ed. by M. Burgin and A. Klinger, pp. 115–145. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/NCNTMC.pdf

  51. “Consciousness in Robots: The Hard Problem and Some Less Hard Problems,” Proceedings, 14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Aug. 13–15, 2005), IEEE, pp. 434–9. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CIR.pdf

  52. “Evolution, Jung, and Theurgy: Their Role in Modern Neoplatonism,” History of Platonism: Plato Redivivus, ed. Robert Berchman & John Finamore, New Orleans: Univ. Press of the South, 2005, pp. 305–22. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/EvolutionJungTheurgyUPS.pdf

  53. “Apuleius of Madauros,” Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece, ed. by Patricia O’Grady, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 207–9. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Apuleius_of_Madauros.pdf

  54. “Iamblichus of Chalcis,” Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece, ed. by Patricia O’Grady, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 223–6. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Iamblichus_of_Chalcis.pdf

  55. “Making Meaning in Computers: Synthetic Ethology Revisited,” Artificial Cognition Systems, ed. by Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin and Joâo Queiroz, Idea Group, 2006, ch. 9 (pp. 252–83). Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MMIC-SER-TR2.pdf

  56. “Evolutionary Jungian Psychology,” Psychological Perspectives 49, 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 9–28. DOI:10.1080/00332920600732968. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/EJP.pdf

  57. “Individual Soul and World Soul: The Process of Individuation in Neoplatonism and Jung,” invited for Wegmarken der Individuation, ed. by Thomas Arzt & Axel Holm, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006, pp. 83–116. This book is to inaugurate a new series, Studien zur Analytischen Psychologie. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ISWS.pdf

  58. “Neoplatonism in Science: Past and Future,” Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern, ed. Robert Berchman & John Finamore, New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2007, pp. 241–59. Reprinted, Westbury: Prometheus Trust, 2014, pp. 199–214. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/NIS-extended.pdf

  59. “Evolutionary Psychology, Complex Systems, and Social Theory,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. XC, No. 3–4 (Fall/Winter 2007), pp. 169–89. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/EPCSST.pdf

  60. “Consciousness: Natural and Artificial,” Synthesis Philosophica 22, 2 (2008), pp. 401–33. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CNA-published.pdf

  61. “History of AI Before Computers,” Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd Ed., ed. by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, IGI International, 2009, Vol. IV, pp. 1763–1768. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch277 Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/HistoryAIBeforeComputers.pdf

  62. “Aesthetics in Software Engineering,” Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd Ed., ed. by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, IGI International, 2009, Vol. I, pp. 72–77. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch013 Draft: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ASE-TR.pdf

  63. “Challenges of Embodied Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,” invited for The ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation (International Test and Evaluation Association), Vol. 29, No. 4 (2008), pp. 360–6. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/TECEAIR-TR.pdf

  64. “Computation and Nanotechnology” (Editorial Preface), International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation 1, 1 (January–March, 2009), pp. i–ix. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CAN-TR.pdf

  65. “Aesthetic Values in Technology and Engineering Design,” by Joachim Schummer, Bruce MacLennan, and Nigel Taylor. In Philosophy of Technology & Engineering Sciences, vol. 8 of Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (16 vols.), ed. by Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard, & John Woods, Elsevier Science, 2009, pp. 885–923. www.johnwoods.ca/HPS/

  66. “Super-Turing or Non-Turing? Extending the Concept of Computation,” The International Journal of Unconventional Computing 5, 3–4 (2009), Special Issue on Future Trends in Hypercomputation, pp. 369–87. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ST-NT.pdf

  67. “Robots React but Can They Feel? A Protophenomenological Analysis,” Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence, ed. by J. Vallverdú & D. Casacuberta, Hershey, NJ: IGI Global, 2009, pp. 133–53. Draft: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/PASER-TR.pdf

  68. “Field Computation in Natural and Artificial Intelligence,” invited by Section Editor for Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al., New York: Springer, 2009, part 6, entry 199, pp. 3334–3360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_199 .

  69. “Analog Computation,” invited by Section Editor for Unconventional Computing, Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al., Springer, 2009, part 1, entry 19, pp. 271–294. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_19 . Reprinted in Computational Complexity: Theory, Techniques, and Applications, ed. by R. A. Meyers et al., Springer, 2012, pp. 161–184.

  70. “Protophenomena: The Elements of Consciousness and their Relation to the Brain,” invited for Irreducibly Conscious: Selected Papers on Consciousness, ed. by Alexander Batthyány, Avshalom Elitzur & Dimitri Constant, Heidelberg & New York: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010, ch. X (pp. 189–214). Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/PECRB.pdf

  71. “The U-machine: A Model of Generalized Computation,” International Journal of Unconventional Computing 6, 3–4 (2010), pp. 265–283. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/U-Machine.pdf

  72. “Morphogenesis as a Model for Nano Communication,” invited for Nano Communication Networks Journal 1 (2010), pp. 199–208. http://dx.doi.org10.1016/j.nancom.2010.09.007 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MMNC.pdf

  73. “A Formal Model of Universal Algorithmic Assembly and Molecular Computation,” Int’l. Journ. Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation 2, 3 (July–Sept. 2010), pp. 55–67. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/AFMUAAMCproof.pdf

  74. “Bodies — Both Informed and Transformed: Embodied Computation and Information Processing,” invited submission to Information and Computation: Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation, ed. by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Mark Burgin, World Scientific Series in Information Studies, Vol. 2, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2011, pp. 225–253. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/BIT-published.pdf

  75. “Models and Mechanisms for Artificial Morphogenesis,” Natural Computing, Springer series, Proceedings in Information and Communications Technology (PICT) 2, ed. by F. Peper, H. Umeo, N. Matsui, and T. Isokawa, Tokyo: Springer, 2010, pp. 23–33. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MMAMproc.pdf

  76. Hoare, J. R., Edwards, R. E., MacLennan, B. J. & Parker, L. E. “Myro-C++: An Open Source C++ Library for CS Education Using AI.” In R. C. Murray & P. M. McCarthy (eds.), Proceedings, Twenty-Fourth International FLAIRS Conference. AAAI Press, 2011.

  77. “Introduction: Computation and Nanotechnology,” Theoretical and Technological Advancements in Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation: Interdisciplinary Gains, (Bruce MacLennan, ed.), Hershey, NJ: IGI Global, 2011. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=45943

  78. “Artificial Morphogenesis as an Example of Embodied Computation,” International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 7, 1–2 (2011), pp. 3–23. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/AMEEC-proof.pdf

  79. “Protophenomena and their Physical Correlates,” invited for Journal of Cosmology, 14 (April–May, 2011), pp. 4516–4525. Special issue on consciousness edited by Sir Roger Penrose, FRS, University of Oxford, and Stuart Hameroff, M.D. <http://journalofcosmology.com/Consciousness119.html>. Reprinted in Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind, ed. Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff, Cosmology Science Publishers, 2011. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MacLennan_Protophenomena.pdf

  80. “Embodied Computation: Applying the Physics of Computation to Artificial Morphogenesis,” Proceedings of the Satellite Workshops of UC 2011, TUCS Lecture Notes No. 14, June 2011, pp. 9–20. https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/EC-UC2011.pdf

  81. Stepney, S., Diaconescu, A., Doursat, R., Giavitto, J.-L., Kowaliw, T., Leyser, O., MacLennan, B., Michel, O., Miller, J. F., Nikolic, I., Spicher, A., Teuscher, C., Tufte, G., Vico, F. J. & Yamamoto, L. “Gardening Cyber-Physical Systems.” In Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation 2012, Orleans, France, September 2012. LNCS 7445, pp. 237–238. Springer, 2012. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Gardening_cyber-physical_systems.pdf

  82. “Homunculus’ Quest for a Body,” Goethe’s Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces, edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2012, ch. 9, pp. 177–215. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Homunculus_Quest.pdf

  83. “Molecular Coordination of Hierarchical Self-Assembly,” invited for Nano Communication Networks Journal, 3, 2 (June 2012), 116–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nancom.2012.01.004 Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MCHSA.pdf

  84. “Embodied Computation: Applying the Physics of Computation to Artificial Morphogenesis,” Parallel Processing Letters, 22, 3 (2012), p. 1240013, http://dx/doi.org/10.1142/S0129626412400130 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/EC-UC2011.pdf

  85. “Cognition in Hilbert Space,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36 (2013), 3, pp. 296–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1200283X . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Pothos_Busemeyer_MacLennan.pdf

  86. “Calling the Na’vi: Evolutionary Jungian Psychology and Nature Spirits,” Avatar and Nature Spirituality, ed. Bron Taylor. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013, pp. 181–200. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CallingNa'vi_final.pdf

  87. Begoli, E., Ogle, C. L., Cihak, D. F., & MacLennan, B. J. “Towards an Integrative Computational Foundation for Applied Behavior Analysis in Early Autism Interventions.” In Lane, H.C., Yacef, K., Mostow, J., Pavlik, P. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education (16th International Conference, AIED 2013, Memphis, TN, USA, July 9–13, 2013) (pp. 888–891). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7926. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2013. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/TICFABA.pdf

  88. “Field Computation in Natural and Artificial Intelligence,” invited by Section Editor for Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al., Springer, 2015. Revision of # 68 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_199-2 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/FieldComputation.pdf

  89. “Analog Computation,” invited by Section Editor for Unconventional Computing, Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al., Springer, 2015. Revision of #69 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_19-5 .

  90. “The Promise of Analog Computation,” invited for International Journal of General Systems, 43 (2014), 7, pp. 682–696, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2014.920997 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/PAC.pdf

  91. “Ethical Treatment of Robots and the Hard Problem of Robot Emotions,” International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, 5 (2014), 1, pp. 10–18. Special issue, “Introduction to Turing, Part I.” http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijse.2014010102 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Ethical_Treatment_Robots.pdf

  92. “Coordinating Massive Robot Swarms,” International Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies, 2, 2 (July–December 2014), 1–19. Appeared in print in July 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/IJRAT.2014070101 Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CMRS-preprint.pdf

  93. “Cognitive Modeling: Connectionist Approaches,” in James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 4. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp. 84–89. New edition of #89. https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Connectionist_Approaches.pdf

  94. “Эволюционная Юнгианская Психология” (Russian translation of #56), Юнгианский Аналис, 1 (20), 2015, 171–193. Reprinted in Almanac No. 3, 2012–2015 (in Russian), 2019, 109–135.

  95. “The Morphogenetic Path to Programmable Matter,” Proceedings of the IEEE, 103, 7 (July 2015), 1226–1232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2015.2425394 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MPPM-accepted.pdf

  96. “Living Science: Science as an Activity of Living Beings,” Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, Special issue on Life Sciences, Mathematics, and Phenomenological Philosophy, 119, 3, (2015), 410–419, published online Aug. 11, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.08.009 Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Living-Science-preprint.pdf

  97. “Ancient Intuition — Modern Science,” in Andrea Blackie & John H. Spencer (Eds.), The Beacon of Mind: Reason and Intuition in the Ancient and Modern World, Param Media, 2015, pp. 219–235. https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MacLennan_AIMS.pdf

  98. Basford, David, Smith, Jared M., Connor, R. Joseph, MacLennan, Bruce J., Holleman, Jeremy. “The Impact of Analog Computational Error on an Analog Boolean Satisfiability Solver,” IEEE International Symposium for Circuits and Systems 2016, Montreal, Canada, May 2016. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ISCAS2015.pdf

  99. “Engineering Inspiration: Enhancing Scientific Creativity through Image Flows,” in Andrew M. Connor and Stefan Marks (Eds.), Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications, Hershey: IGI Global, 2016, ch. 13, pp. 309–333. http://10.4018/978-1-5225-0016-2.ch013 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/EngineeringInspiration.pdf

  100. “Physical and Formal Aspects of Computation: Exploiting
 Physics for Computation and Exploiting Computation for Physical Purposes,” in Andy Adamatzky (Ed.), Advances in Unconventional Computing, Vol. 1: Theory, Springer, 2017, ch. 5, pp. 117–140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33924-5_5 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/PFAC.pdf

  101. “Field Computation: A Framework for 
Quantum-Inspired Computing,” in Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Ujjwal Maulik, and Paramartha Dutta (Eds.), Quantum Inspired Computational Intelligence: Research and Applications, Cambridge, MA: Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 2017, ch. 3, pp. 85–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804409-4.00003-6 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/FCFQIC.pdf

  102. “Neural Networks, Learning Algorithms, and Intelligence,” invited for Gordon Burghardt, Irene Pepperberg, Chuck Snowdon, & Tom Zentall (Eds.), APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology, Vol. I, pp. 579–597, Washington, DC: American Psychological Assoc., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0000011-028 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/APA-HCM_v1-c28.pdf

  103. Mahoor, Z., MacLennan, B., and MacBride, A. “Neurally plausible motor babbling in robot reaching,” in 6th International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, September 19–22, 2016, Cergy-Pontoise / Paris.

  104. “Benefits of Embodiment,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 (2017), 41–42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17000206 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MacLennan_benefits_of_embodiment.pdf

  105. “Could Robots Feel Pain? How Can We Know?” in Steve Thompson (Ed.), Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society, ch. 7, pp. 151–175, IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2973-6.ch007 . Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Robot-Pain.pdf

  106. Andrew Adamatzky, Selim Akl, Mark Burgin, Cristian S. Calude, José Félix Costa, Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi, Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Zoran Konkoli, Bruce MacLennan, Bruno Marchal, Maurice Margenstern, Genaro J. Martínez, Richard Mayne, Kenichi Morita, Andrew Schumann, Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Susan Stepney, Karl Svozil, Hector Zenil. “East-West Paths to Unconventional Computing,” Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, Dec. 2017, 469–493. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.08.004 Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/East_West_UC.pdf

  107. “Analog Computation,” Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al., Springer, 2017, 1–32. Revision of #. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_19-6 preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/AC2017.pdf

  108. “Michael LaFargue, Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato: A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism; and Erik Nis Ostenfeld, Human Wisdom: Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy” (double book review), International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 12 (2018), pp. 74–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725473-12341401. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/LaFargue+Ostenfeld_Reviews_v3.pdf

  109. “Continuum Mechanics for Coordinating Massive Microrobot Swarms: Self-assembly through Artificial Morphogenesis,” in D. Zhang & B. Wei (Eds.), Novel Design and Applications of Robotics Technologies, IGI Global, 2019, ch. 4, pp. 96–133. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5276-5.ch004 Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CMCMMS-preprint.pdf

  110. “What Wisdom Lies Within?” in Bedenbaugh, Robin A. (Ed.), From the Remains: Reflections on “Station Eleven,” Newfound Press, 2018, pp. 5–10. https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MacLennanFromTheRemains.pdf

  111. “Neurophenomenology and Neoplatonism,” International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 13 (2019), 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725473-12341422. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/NeurophenomenologyAndNeoplatonismJPT.pdf

  112. “Coordinating Swarms of Microscopic Agents to Assemble Complex Structures,” Ying Tan (Ed.), Swarm Intelligence, Vol. 1: Principles, Current Algorithms and Methods (PBCE119), ch. 20, pp. 583–612, IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), 2018. preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CSMA.pdf

  113. “Psychological Effects of Henôsis,” in John Finamore & Tomáš Nejeschleba (Eds.), Platonism and its Legacy: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Prometheus Trust Press, 2019, pp. 405–425. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/PsychologicalEffectsHenosis_proof.pdf

  114. “Philosophia Naturalis Rediviva: Natural Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century,” in special issue, “Contemporary Natural Philosophy and Philosophies,” Philosophies 2018, 3(4), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies3040038. Reprinted in Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Marcin J. Schroeder (Eds.), Contemporary Natural Philosophy and Philosophies— Part 1, Basel: MDPI, 2019, pp. 5–19. Reprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/PhilosophiaNaturalisRediviva.pdf

  115. “A Morphogenetic Program for Path Formation by Continuous Flocking,” International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 14 (2019), pp. 91–119. preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/CF2D-IJUC-preprint.pdf

  116. “The Psychodynamics of the Numbers,” in John F. Finamore and Eric D. Perl (Eds.), Platonic Interpretations: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth Annual Conference for the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Prometheus Trust Press, 2019, pp. 191–218. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Psychodynamics_of_the_Numbers.pdf

  117. “Topographic Representation for Quantum Machine Learning,” in Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Indrajit Pan, Ashish Mani, Sourav De, Elizabeth Behrman, Susanta Chakraborti (Eds.), Quantum Machine Learning, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, ch. 2, pp. 11–37. preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06992

  118. Bruce J. MacLennan and Allen C. McBride, “Swarm Intelligence for Morphogenetic Engineering,” in Andrew Schumann (Ed.), Swarm Intelligence: From Social Bacteria to Human Beings, Taylor & Francis / CRC, 2020, ch. 2. preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08787

  119. “Liber Novus sed Non Ultimus: Neoplatonic Theurgy for Our Time,” in Murray Stein & Thomas Arzt (Eds.), Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions, Vol. 4, Asheville: Chiron, 2020, pp. 99–145. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Liber_Novus_sed_non_Ultimus_preprint.pdf

  120. “Theurgy as a Contemporary Practice: The Example of Jung’s Red Book,” John F. Finamore & Mark Nyvlt (Eds.), Plato in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times: Selected Papers from the Seventeenth Annual Conference for the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Gloucestershire: Prometheus Trust Press, 2020, pp. 93–116. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ISNS2019anthology.pdf

  121. “Mapping the Territory of Computation Including Embodied Computation,” in Andrew Adamatzky (Ed.), Handbook of Unconventional Computing, Vol 1: Theory, World Scientific, 2022, pp. 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811235726_0001 Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/MappingTerritory.pdf

  122. “Swarms of microscopic agents self-assemble into complex bodies,” LINKs Special Issue 1: Thoughts on Unconventional Computation, ed. A. Adamatzky, in press, 2021, pp. 16–20. http://links-series.com/wp-content/revues/SI1-Computing/2-Bruce_MacLennan_Swarms_of_microscopic_agents_self-assemble_into_complex_bodies-Revue_LINKs_series_Special_Issue_1-Thoughts_on_Unconventional_Computing-2021.pdf ;
    reprinted in     Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy, ed. A. Adamatzky, World Scientific, 2023, ch. 6, pp. 127–34. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811257155_0006

  123. “Intimations of Theurgy in George Gemistos Plethon’s Commentary on the Chaldean Oracles,” Initiatic Religious Experience in Neoplatonism: From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, Andreea-Maria Lemnaru, Luciano Albanese, José Maria Zamora Calvo, Giuseppe Muscolino (editors), Mimesis International, Milano, 2023, pp. 191–212. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Intimations_Theurgy_Plethon.pdf

  124. “Plethon Sings the Virtues: The Organization of the Specific Virtues in the Laws,” Platonism and its Heritage: Selected Papers from the 19th Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, J. Finamore, I. Patsioti, G. Stamatellos (editors), Prometheus Trust Press, 2023, pp. 189–201. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/ISNS2022_Plethon_Virtues.pdf

  125. “Theurgy in Jung and Neoplatonism: Comparative Phenomenology,” Platonism Through the Centuries: Selected Papers from the Twentieth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, L. Cardullo, J. Finamore, C. Martello, C. Militello, J. Cesar Moreira (editors), Prometheus Trust Press, in press. Preprint: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/papers/Theurgy_Jung_Neoplatonism.pdf

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