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Changing mind [electronic resource] : transitions in natural and artificial environments / Franco F. Orsucci.
ISBN:
9789812777287
Title:
Changing mind [electronic resource] : transitions in natural and artificial environments / Franco F. Orsucci.
Author:
Orsucci, Franco.
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Publication Information:
River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations, map.
Series:
Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ; v. 9
Contents:
E-Mergence -- The emerging mind -- Pre-Socratic shamans -- Birth of Western natural philosophy -- Klinamen -- Symmetry -- Physiologoi -- Totem-clans -- Table of Contraries -- Ecstasy vs. enthusiasm -- Daemons -- Olympian and Mystery Gods -- Physis and Nature -- Art of philosophy -- Language of philosophy -- A multiplicity of languages -- Sum, ergo cogito -- Principium individuationis -- Emergence vs. Fusion -- Hyper-structures -- Emergence in hyper-structures -- Interactions as morphisms -- Autopoiesis -- The Ob-server -- Reductionism and non-reductionism -- Explanation and insight -- The emerging mind -- Semiosis -- The empire of signs -- The power of negative -- Expressions of life -- Language as a dynamical system -- Language forms -- Language and reality -- Olfaction -- The smell of emotions -- Smell dynamics -- The epistemology of olfaction -- A model for olfaction -- Neural learning -- Synchrony -- Memory of smell -- Orders -- Human information -- Kinds of orders -- Combinations -- Recurrences -- The Voynich mystery -- Mediations -- Icon -- Icon power -- Phantasma -- Iconic -- Ideas -- Thought stuff -- Introspection vs. behavior? -- Revival -- Debates -- Re-Presentation -- Things -- Presentation -- Imago -- Sensible objects -- Peircean iconicity -- Abduction -- Semiotic streams -- Psychoanalysis -- Wunschphantasie -- Urszenen -- Polymorph -- Transitional phenomena -- Autistic shapes -- Embodied cognition -- Landscapes -- Image search -- Analog vs digital -- Observers -- Simulacra.
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Publication Date:
2002
Publication Information:
River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2002.