Screen LibraryThe complex matters of the mind /
This book focuses on the successes and difficulties of nonlinear studies, particularly in the areas of Mind Sciences. It atttempts to answer the following questions: is an interdisciplinary contamination of complexity studies in different disciplines useful? Does this contamination originate in a tr...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | 1998. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science ;
vol. 6 |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/3668#t=toc |
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This book focuses on the successes and difficulties of nonlinear studies, particularly in the areas of Mind Sciences. It atttempts to answer the following questions: is an interdisciplinary contamination of complexity studies in different disciplines useful? Does this contamination originate in a transdisciplinary toolbox of methods and models which is worth calling it Nonlinear Science ? What are the relations between the metaphoric approach and the mathematical approach in natural sciences and humanities? Complexity in the Life Sciences represents a fundamental workbench for these kinds of problems. The fascinating challenge in these areas is represented by studies on mind functioning. |
| Item Description: | Based on contributions to the International Conference on "Chaos, Fractals, and Models," held at the University of Pavia in Nov. 1996. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvii,210pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789812812735 |
| Index Number: | BF161 |
| CLC: | R338.2-532 |
| Contents: | Complexity in science: syntaxis versus semantics / F T. Arecchi. 1. Introduction. 2. Complexity of symbolic sequences. 3. A dynamical approach to complexity. 4. An adaptive measurement procedure. 5. Conclusion -- Complexity and fractals in physics / L. Pietronero. 1. Introduction: the simple and the complex. 2. Recent developments in statistical physics. 3. Regular and irregular structures: scale invariance. 4. Properties of fractals: simple but subtle. 5. The fractal universe. 6. Physical models and self-organization. 7. The development of understanding -- Dynamical systems in psychology: linguistic approaches / W. Sulis. 1. Introduction. 2. Language natural and unnatural. 3. Dynamical systems theory. 4. Symbolic dynamics. 5. Crutchfield's [symbol] machines. 6. Dynamical automata. 7. Conclusion -- Nonlinear dynamics in language and psychobiological interactions / F. Orsucci. 1. The Psyche-Soma paradox. 2. A single case study. 3. The Nachtraglich effect. 4. Pensee operatoire. 5. Biology of relations. 6. Morphological patterns in language. 7. Dimensions. 8. Science and metaphor in mind sciences -- Minimal models for dyadic processes: a review / 5. Rinaldi and A. Gragnani. 1. Introduction. 2. Structure of the minimal model. 3. A simple linear model. 4. More realistic nonlinear models. 5. A couple oriented study: the case of Laura and Petrarch . 6. Conclusions -- Fractal dynamics of heartbeat interval fluctuations in health and disease / M. Meyer, C. Marconi, A. Rahtnel, B. Grassi, G. Ferretti, J. E. Skinner, N. Cerretelli. 1. Introduction. 2. Methods. 3. Results. 4. Discussion -- Epistemological and treatment implications of nonlinear dynamics / A. H. Stein. 1. G. Klimovsky's psychoanalytic science. 2. Closed, time-differentiable, nondissipative systems. 3. Open, non-time-differentiable, dissipative systems. 4. The epistemological problem of 'knowing' in nonlinearly founded psychoanalysis. 5. Conclusion -- The six fundamental characteristics of chaos and their clinical relevance to psychiatry: a new hypothesis for the origin of psychosis / G. B. Schmid. 1. Introduction. 2. Chaos theory and POPSY. 3. Implications to complementary medicine. 4. Summary and conclusion. 5. Closing remark -- Social anthropological considerations on the predictability and unpredictability of community outcomes / G. O. Smith. 1. Introduction. 2. The setting. 3. The evidence. 4. Conclusion -- Models portability: some considerations about transdisciplinary approaches / A. Giuliani. 1. Introduction. 2. Metaphorical modeling. 3. Conclusion. |