Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition, The: Concepts and Empirical Paradigms Based on Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Coordination Dynamics

ISBN-13: 9789812386106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 344 str.

Wolfgang Tschacher

Opis

The shared platform of the articles collected in this volume is used to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. It is argued that recent developments in cognitive science towards an account of embodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theory and dynamics, have a major impact on behavioural and cognitive science. The book points out that there are two domains that follow naturally from the stance of embodiment: first, coordination dynamics is an established empirical paradigm that is best able to aid the approach; second, the obvious goal-directedness of intelligent action (i.e., intentionality) is nicely addressed in the framework of the dynamical synergetic approach.