Causality, Meaningful Complexity and Embodied Cognition

✍ Scribed by Stephen Grossberg (auth.), A. Carsetti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 346
• Series: Theory and Decision Library A: 46
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Arturo Carsetti According to molecular Biology, true invariance (life) can exist only within the framework of ongoing autonomous morphogenesis and vice versa. With respect to this secret dialectics, life and cognition appear as indissolubly interlinked. In this sense, for instance, the inner articulation of conceptual spaces appears to be linked to an inner functional development based on a continuous activity of selection and “anchorage” realised on semantic grounds. It is the work of “invention” and g- eration (in invariance), linked with the “rooting” of meaning, which determines the evolution, the leaps and punctuated equilibria, the conditions related to the unfo- ing of new modalities of invariance, an invariance which is never simple repetition and which springs on each occasion through deep-level processes of renewal and recovery. The selection perpetrated by meaning reveals its autonomy aboveall in its underpinning, in an objective way, the ongoing choice of these new modalities. As such it is not, then, concerned only with the game of “possibles”, offering itself as a simple channel for pure chance, but with providing a channel for the articulation of the “ le” in the humus of a semantic (and embodied) net in order to prepare the necessary conditionsfor a continuousrenewal and recoveryof original creativity. In effect, it is this autonomy in inventing new possible modules of incompressibility whichdeterminestheactualemergenceofnew(andtrue)creativity,whichalsotakes place through the “narration” of the effected construction.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xlviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Link Between Brain Learning, Attention, and Consciousness....Pages 3-45
Emergence of Intentional Procedures in Self-Organizing Neural Networks....Pages 47-56
Action Goal Representation and Action Understanding in the Cerebral Cortex....Pages 57-73
Front Matter....Pages 76-76
The Genesis of Mathematical Objects, Following Weyl and Brouwer....Pages 77-85
Randomness, Determinism and Programs in Turing’s Test....Pages 87-111
Ω-Incompleteness, Truth, Intentionality....Pages 113-124
Front Matter....Pages 126-126
Leibniz, Complexity and Incompleteness....Pages 127-133
Incomputability, Emergence and the Turing Universe....Pages 135-153
Computational Models of Measurement and Hempel’s Axiomatization....Pages 155-183
Impredicativity of Continuum in Phenomenology and in Non-Cantorian Theories....Pages 185-199
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Reasons Against Naturalizing Epistemic Reasons: Normativity, Objectivity, Non-computability....Pages 203-210
Some Remarks on Causality and Invariance....Pages 211-229
Epistemic Complexity from an Objective Bayesian Perspective....Pages 231-246
Front Matter....Pages 248-248
The Role of Creativity and Randomizers in Human Cognition and Problem Solving....Pages 249-264
The Emergence of Mind: A Dualistic Understanding....Pages 265-273
Doing Metaphysics with Robots....Pages 275-282
Knowledge Construction, Non-Standard Semantics and the Genesis of the Mind’s Eyes....Pages 283-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-315

✦ Subjects

Epistemology;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Simulation and Modeling;Philosophy of Mind