Nature, Cognition and System I: Current Systems-Scientific Research on Natural and Cognitive Systems

by M.E. Carvallo (Editor)

Overview

usually called the classical (scientific) attitude (according to which there is a dichotomy between nature and cognition) and suggestions for better understanding of their mutual encroach­ ment. The authors belong more or less to the non-standard systems­ science, the third order cybernetics, or find themselves already beyond the third stage in the history of artificial intelli­ 1 gence ). They take the inescapability of the mutual implication of the description of nature and that of cognition seriously. Fourth­ ly, closely linking up with the previous, it emphatically calls attention to the forgotten microscopic dimension of science. If I am not mistaken we have at this moment reached the historic stage where the tremendous renascence of the mechanistic-structural paradigm, remarkably enough, calls for its functional-dynamic counterparts. The volume strives to respond to this secret trend in various disciplines and to put into words that which is tacitly alive in the minds of the ever increasing number of people in this systemsage. The investigation on the intertwinement of nature and cognition finds itself in this very paradoxical niche structured by those two opposite developments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401078443
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/12/2011
Series:	Theory and Decision Library D: , #2
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

I: Cognition, Computation and Language.- 1. Speech Production Model and Automatic Recognition.- 2. Cognition and the General Theory of Symbolic Expressions.- 3. Emotion, Cognition and Meaning in an A.I. Perspective.- 4. From Brain Theory to Future Generations Computer Systems.- 5. Cognition and Complementarity.- 6. Towards System: From Computation to the Phenomenon of Language.- 7. Postscript.- II: Selforganization and Cognition.- 8. A Model for Organizational Closure in Autonomous Systems: Ingredients of a Self-Constructing Automaton.- 9. Dialogic Mind: The Infant and the Adult in Proonversation.- 10. The Genesis of Psychological Content.- 11. Selftranscendence and Symmetrybreak.- 12. Synergetics -Processes of Self Organization in Complex Systems.- III: Modeling Natural and Cognitive Systems.- 13. Application of a “Building of Neighbourhoods” to the Modelization of Natural Systems.- 14. Information, Computation and Complexity.- 15. Towards a Theory of Distributed Statistical Decision Involving Subjective Factors.- 16. Basic Modes of Interaction and the Failure in Human Communication: Empirical Investigation of Married Couples in Therapy.- About the Authors.- Name Index.