<p><p>Drawing on the middle chapters from the first edition of J. Barkley Rosser's seminal work, <i>From Catastrophe to Chaos,</i> this book presents an unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally conti
From Complexity to Creativity: Explorations in Evolutionary, Autopoietic, and Cognitive Dynamics
β Scribed by Ben Goertzel (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 392
- Series
- IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering 11
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Cybernetic pioneer Warren McCullough asked: "What is a man, that he may know a number; and what is a number, that a man may know it?" Thinking along much the same lines, my question here is: "What is a creative mind, that it might emerge from a complex system; and what is a complex system, that it might give rise to a creative mind?" Complexity science is a fashionable topic these days. My perspective on complexity, however, is a somewhat unusual one: I am interested in complex systems science principally as it reflects on abstract mathematical, computational models of mind. In my three previous books, The Structure of Intelligence, Evolving Mind, and Chaotic Logic, I have outlined a comprehensive complex-systems-theoretic theory of mind that I now call the psynet model. This book is a continuation of the research program presented in my previous books (and those books will be frequently referred to here, by the nicknames EM and CL). One might summarize the trajectory of thought spanning these four books as follows. SI formulated a philosophy and mathem- ics of mind, based on theoretical computer science and the concept of "pattern. " EM analyzed the theory of evolution by natural selection in similar terms, and used this computational theory of evolution to establish the evolutionary nature of thought.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Dynamics, Evolution, Autopoiesis....Pages 1-20
The Psynet Model....Pages 21-42
A Theory of Cortical Dynamics....Pages 43-55
Perception and Mindspace Curvature....Pages 57-71
Dynamics and Pattern....Pages 73-111
Evolution and Dynamics....Pages 113-157
Magician Systems and Abstract Algebras....Pages 159-184
The Structure of Consciousness....Pages 185-233
Fractals and Sentence Production....Pages 235-255
Dream Dynamics....Pages 257-269
Artificial Selfhood....Pages 271-284
The World Wide Brain....Pages 285-297
Subself Dynamics....Pages 299-314
Aspects of Human Personality Dynamics....Pages 315-340
On the Dynamics of Creativity....Pages 341-364
Back Matter....Pages 365-376
β¦ Subjects
Business/Management Science, general;Political Science;Mathematics, general;Systems and Information Theory in Engineering
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