Nature, cognition and system : current systems-scientific research on natural and cognitive systems
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Nature, cognition and system : current systems-scientific research on natural and cognitive systems
（Theory and decision library, series D . System theory,
Kluwer Academic Pub., c1988-c1992
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Outgrowth of a symposium that was an integral part of the 3rd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics, and Cybernetics, held in Baden-Baden, West Germany, Aug. 19-24, 1986
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
v. 2: On complementarity and beyond
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is both a player and a spectator, is explained here illuminatingly. With regard to logical ambiguities and paradoxes, which may show up in all these topics, he, like Locker, is of the opinion that, philosophically speaking all apory of a lower level have to be accepted an a higher level of thinking. After the above expositions of a more general purport we turn now to two contributions which are particularly focused on Bohr's concept of complementarity. First is the article of Hilgevoord who briefly and non-technically describes a short curriculum vitae of the concept beginning with Planck through Bohr to Heisenberg and Schrodinger. Included in this short story, of course, is the famous wave-particle duality and the paradox inherent in it many physicists are still saddled with. How this paradox was solved is explained here simply and clearly: first, generally by quantum mechanics where the disturbance theory of measurement was supposed to be of some relevance, and secondly, where this theory is further refmed leading to Bohr's conclusion of the essential unsolvability, and accordingly the completeness, of the statistical element of quantum mechanics. The reading of this short article may arouse questions and surmises whether complementarity has been ruminated by Bohr to tame the law of excluded middle dividing the well-defined content of position measurement from that of momentum measurement, just to mention one. Whatever it may be the idea of complementarity betrays the perplexity of the observing system in dealing with nature's complexity.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: On Issues in Complementarity and Beyond
- M.E. Carvallo. Part I: Complementarity, Epistemology, and Ontology. 1. Complementarity-Polarity-Dialectic-Autology: A Conceptual Analysis of Opposition and Unity
- A. Locker. 2. Complementarity as Challenge: Prefigurations in the History of Thinking
- H. Fischer-Barnicol. 3. Bohr's Idea of Complementarity
- J. Hilgevoord. 4. Complementarity and Our Knowledge of Nature
- H.J. Folse. 5. Ontological Implications of Complementarity
- K.V. Laurikainen. 6. Aspects of Complementarity
- R. Vallee. Part II: Complementarity: Alternative Views and Applications. 7. The Probability Trees of Quantum Mechanics: Probabilistic Meta-Dependence and Meta-Meta-Dependence
- M. Mugur-Schachter. 8. Complementarity in Language: Toward a General Understanding
- L. Loefgren. 9. Language, Incompleteness and Continuous Domains: Considerations of Complementarity of Abstractions
- H.W. Campbell, D.G. Stuart. 10. The Measurement Problem in Physics, Computation, and Brain Theories
- H.H. Pattee. 11. On the Double Architecture of the Semantic Memory
- P. Erdi, T. Groebler, P. Marton. 12. Axiomatic Methods in Science
- P. Suppes. 13. Complementarity in the Theory of Conversations and Lp
- G. Pask. 14. A Theory of Bargains in Experience
- S.M. Lindenberg. Part III: Beyond Complementarity, Beyond Physics. 15. Complementarity or Process? T. Bastin. 16. Can Quantum Computation Provide a Physically Realistic Model of the Self and Its Brain? P.J.Marcer. 17. Non-Locality in Nature and Cognition
- F.D. Peat. 18. Spontaneity of Consciousness
- V.V. Nalimov. 19. A Brief Prolegomenon to the Principle of Metaphoricity
- M.E. Carvallo. Name Index. Subject Index.
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usually called the classical (scientific) attitude (according to which there is a dichotomy between nature and cognition) and suggestions for better understanding of their mutual encroach ment. The authors belong more or less to the non-standard systems science, the third order cybernetics, or find themselves already beyond the third stage in the history of artificial intelli 1 gence ). They take the inescapability of the mutual implication of the description of nature and that of cognition seriously. Fourth ly, closely linking up with the previous, it emphatically calls attention to the forgotten microscopic dimension of science. If I am not mistaken we have at this moment reached the historic stage where the tremendous renascence of the mechanistic-structural paradigm, remarkably enough, calls for its functional-dynamic counterparts. The volume strives to respond to this secret trend in various disciplines and to put into words that which is tacitly alive in the minds of the ever increasing number of people in this systemsage. The investigation on the intertwinement of nature and cognition finds itself in this very paradoxical niche structured by those two opposite developments.
Table of Contents
I: Cognition, Computation and Language.- 1. Speech Production Model and Automatic Recognition.- 2. Cognition and the General Theory of Symbolic Expressions.- 3. Emotion, Cognition and Meaning in an A.I. Perspective.- 4. From Brain Theory to Future Generations Computer Systems.- 5. Cognition and Complementarity.- 6. Towards System: From Computation to the Phenomenon of Language.- 7. Postscript.- II: Selforganization and Cognition.- 8. A Model for Organizational Closure in Autonomous Systems: Ingredients of a Self-Constructing Automaton.- 9. Dialogic Mind: The Infant and the Adult in Protoconversation.- 10. The Genesis of Psychological Content.- 11. Selftranscendence and Symmetrybreak.- 12. Synergetics -Processes of Self Organization in Complex Systems.- III: Modeling Natural and Cognitive Systems.- 13. Application of a “Building of Neighbourhoods” to the Modelization of Natural Systems.- 14. Information, Computation and Complexity.- 15. Towards a Theory of Distributed Statistical Decision Involving Subjective Factors.- 16. Basic Modes of Interaction and the Failure in Human Communication: Empirical Investigation of Married Couples in Therapy.- About the Authors.- Name Index.
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