Processes and boundaries of the mind : extending the limit line /
How is it that the world is conceived as exclusively populated by objects (e.g. books, cars, numbers, and people) while cognition is first and foremost a dynamic process? Inquiring into the `reified universe' Dr. Neuman explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a provo...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer Science+Business Media,
[2003]
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| Series: | Contemporary systems thinking.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On what there is
- 3. In the beginning was the act
- 4. Beyond the curtain or into the looking glass
- 5. A guided tour in the kingdom of signs
- 6. Saussure and semiotics as a social system
- 7. The mind as a semiotic interface
- 8. We have never been too abstract
- 9. A snake that bites its tail
- 10. The demon of circularity
- 11. Origins
- 12. Laws of form
- 13. Toward a phenomenology of boundaries
- 14. Peter Pan's shadow and the empty observer
- 15. On Turing's carnal error
- 16. What is so complex about complexity?
- 17. Toward a dialogical complexity
- 18. The architectonics of the mind
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
- Endnotes.