Thermodynamic cycles, developmental systems, and emergence. - Bruce H. Weber; Terrence W. Deacon (Cybern. Hum. Knowing, 2000)

Memes as Signs in the Dynamic Logic of Semiosis: Beyond Molecular Science and Computation Theory. - Terrence W. Deacon (ICCS, 2004)

Transient Phenomena in Learning and Evolution: Genetic Assimilation and Genetic Redistribution. - Janet Wiles; James E. M. Watson; Bradley Tonkes; Terrence W. Deacon (Artif. Life, 2005)

Complexity and Dynamical Depth. - Terrence W. Deacon; Spyridon Koutroufinis (Inf., 2014)

Exploring Constraint: Simulating Self-Organization and Autogenesis in the Autogenic Automaton. - Terrence W. Deacon; Tom Heskes; Stefan Leijnen (ALIFE, 2016)

Ungrounding symbols in language development: implications for modeling emergent symbolic communication in artificial systems. - Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi; Terrence W. Deacon (ICDL-EPIROB, 2018)

A degenerative process underlying hierarchic transitions in evolution. - Terrence W. Deacon (Biosyst., 2022)

Grounding information in thermodynamics and the ungroundedness of language: A missing aspect of anthropogenesis. - Terrence W. Deacon (Biosyst., 2025)

Illuminating the Three Dogmas of Reinforcement Learning under Evolutionary Light. - Mani Hamidi; Terrence W. Deacon (CoRR, 2025)