Screen LibraryEpistemic complexity and knowledge construction : morphogenesis, symbolic dynamics and beyond /
As is well known, cognition is not only a self-organising process. It is also a co-operative and coupled process. If we consider the external environment as a complex, multiple and stratified Source which interacts with the nervous system, we can easily realise that the cognitive activities devoted...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Theory and decision library. Series A, Rational choice in practical philosophy and philosophy of science ;
v.45 |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6013-4 |
| Summary: |
As is well known, cognition is not only a self-organising process. It is also a co-operative and coupled process. If we consider the external environment as a complex, multiple and stratified Source which interacts with the nervous system, we can easily realise that the cognitive activities devoted to the "intelligent" search for the depth information living in the Source, may determine the very change of the complexity conditions according to which the Source progressively expresses its "wild" action. In this sense, simulation models are not neutral or purely speculative: the true cognition actually appears to be necessarily connected with successful forms of reading, those forms, in particular, that permit a specific coherent unfolding of the deep information content of the Source. Therefore, the simulation models, if valid, materialise as "creative" channels, i.e., as autonomous functional systems, as the very roots of a new possible development of the entire system represented by mind and its Reality. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9789400760134 (electronic bk.) 9400760132 (electronic bk.) 9400760124 9789400760127 |
| Index Number: | BD161 |
| CLC: | B017 |
| Contents: |
Complexity, Self-Organization and Natural Evolution -- Embodiment Processes and Biological Computing -- Randomness, Semantic Information and Limitation Procedures -- Natural Language and Boolean Semantics: the Genesis of the Cognitive Code -- Morphogenesis and the Emergence of Meaning. |