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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neuman, Yair, 1968- (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Science+Business Media, [2003]
Series:Contemporary systems thinking.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.