Functional models of cognition : self-organizing dynamics and semantic structures in cognitive systems /

"Of crucial importance in the attempt to outline an adequate theory of human cognition, these remain amongst the most difficult of questions in the cognitive sciences. This volume brings together fifteen original essays from distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines to discuss these qu...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Carsetti, Arturo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2000]
Series:Theory and decision library. Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences ; 27.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / A. Carsetti
  • Pt. I. Models of Cognition. Functional Realism / F. M. Wuketits. Complexity and Cognition / D. Parisi. From Visual Perception to Decision Making: A Synergetic Approach / H. Haken. Connectionist Psychology and the Synergetics of Cognition / E. Pessa. Self-Organization in Perception. The Case of Motion / R. Luccio
  • Pt. II. Self-Organization, Complexity and Truth. Expressiveness and Complexity of Formal Systems / G. Ausiello and L. Cabibbo. Imposing Polynomial Time Complexity in Functional Programming / C. Bohm. Self-Organizing Networks: Weak, Strong and Intentional, the Role of their Underdetermination / H. Atlan. Self-Organization: Epistemological and Methodological Aspects of the Unity of Reality / J. Gotschl.