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1 online resource |
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Theory and Decision Library series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences ; v. 46 |
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Theory and decision library. Series A, Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences ; v. 46.
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Introduction / Arturo Carsetti -- Consciousness, intentionality and self-organization. The link between brain learning, attention and consciousness / Stephen Grossberg ; Emergence of intentional procedures in self-organizing neural networks / Henri Atlan and Yoram Louzoun ; Action goal representation and action understanding in the cerebral cortex / Leonardo Fogassi -- Truth, randomness and impredicativity. The genesis of mathematical objects, following Weyl and Brouwer / Dirk van Dalen ; Randomness, determinism and programs in Turing's test / Giuseppe Longo ; [Omega]-incompleteness, truth, intentionality / Sergio Galvan -- Complexity, incomputability and emergence. Lebniz, complexity and incompleteness / Gregory Chaitin ; Incomputability, emergence and the Turing universe / S. Barry Cooper ; Computational models of measurement and Hempel's axiomatization / Edwin Beggs, José Félix Costa, and John V. Tucker ; Impredictativity of continuum in phenomenology and in non-Cantorian theories / Stathis Livadas -- Epistemic complexity and causality. Reasons against naturalizing epistemic reasons : normativity, objectivity, non-computability / Julian Nida-Rümelin ; Some remarks on causality and invariance / Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti ; Epistemic complexity from an objective Bayesian perspective / Jon Williamson -- Embodied cognition and knowledge construction. The role of creativity and randomizers in human cognition and problem solving / Werner Leinfellner ; The emergence of mind : a dualistic understanding / Antonella Corradini ; Doing metaphysics with robots / Domenico Parisi ; Knowledge construction, non-standard semantics and the genesis of the mind's eyes / Arturo Carsetti |
| Summary |
With respect to the possible outlining of new models of the process of knowledge construction, we are really faced, at the moment, with the appearance of a new frontier: a frontier that appears strictly linked to the emergence of a conceptual revolution at the level of the analysis of that peculiar entanglement of complexity, information, causality, meaning, emergence, teleology and intentionality that characterizes the unfolding of the "natural forms" of human cognition. To recognize some of the peculiar knots of this particular conceptual revolution precisely constitutes the first target of the volume. Cognitive activity is rooted in Reality, but at the same time represents the necessary means whereby Reality can embody itself in an objective way: i.e., in accordance with an in-depth nesting process and a surface unfolding of operational meaning. In this sense, the objectivity of Reality is also proportionate to the autonomy reached by cognitive processes. Within this conceptual framework, reference procedures thus appear as related to the modalities providing the successful constitution of the channel, of the actual link, in particular, established at the neural level between operations of vision and thought. Such procedures ensure not a simple "regimentation" or an adequate replica, but, on the contrary, the real constitution of a cognitive autonomy in accordance with the truth. A method thus emerges which is simultaneously project, telos and regulating activity: a code that becomes process, positing itself as the foundation of a constantly renewed synthesis between function and meaning. In this sense, at the level of cultural evolution, reference procedures act as guide, mirror and canalisation with respect to primary information flows and involved selective forces. They also constitute a precise support for the operations which "imprison" meaning and "inscribe" the "file" considered as an autonomous categorial (and generating) system. In this way, they offer themselves as the actual instruments for the constant renewal of the code, for the invention and the actual articulation of an ever-new incompressibility |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Print version record |
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Cognition.
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Causation.
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Cognition
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cognition.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Causation
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Cognition
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Carsetti, Arturo.
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| ISBN |
9789048135295 |
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904813529X |
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