The Mind, the Brain and Complex Adaptive Systems

ISBN-13: 9780201409864 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 248 str.

Harold Morowitz; Jerome L. Singer

Opis

This is a volume of thoughtful essays by a group of scientific leaders from physics, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, the philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and brain physiology. It addresses fundamental issues such as, in the words of one of the contributors, 'How a mind resides in a brain.' The essays are set in the framework of the evolving scientific concept of complex adaptive systems, the basis for which is laid in an impressive essay by another Nobelist, physicist Murray Gell-Mann.

Spis treści

About the Santa Fe Institute , Santa Fe Institute Editorial Board June 1993 , Santa Fe Institute Series List , Preface , Mental Processes and Brain Architecture: Confronting the Complex Adaptive Systems of Human Thought (An Overview) , Complex Adaptive Systems , Near Decomposability and Complexity: How a Mind Resides in a Brain , Can There Be a Unified Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems? , Neurobiology of Mental Representation , The Organization of Memory , Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything About Consciousness? , The Rediscovery of the Unconscious , Affect and Neuro-Modulation: A Connectionist Approach , Thinking Away and Ahead , Natural Learning, Natural Teaching: Changing Human Memory , Does Mind Piggyback on Robotic and Symbolic Capacity? , Evolution as An Algorithm—The Ultimate Insult?

O autorze

Harold J Morowitz