Processes and Boundaries of the Mind
Extending the Limit Line
Seiten
2003
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-48121-5 (ISBN)
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-48121-5 (ISBN)
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Explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, this book presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon. It propagates a process-oriented theory of the mind.
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 provocative, stimulating and humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, Dr. Neuman is touching basic questions of our Being-in-the-World as cognate creatures, and presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon. Following the footsteps of Gregory Bateson and Valentine Volosinov, the book propagates a process-oriented theory of the mind, in a way that has never been presented before. In this context, new and creative solutions are presented for a variety of old philosophical problems such as: What is the Mind? Why do we use different signs for the same object across different cultures? How is it possible to think on our thinking without getting into problems such as an infinite regression?
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 provocative, stimulating and humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, Dr. Neuman is touching basic questions of our Being-in-the-World as cognate creatures, and presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon. Following the footsteps of Gregory Bateson and Valentine Volosinov, the book propagates a process-oriented theory of the mind, in a way that has never been presented before. In this context, new and creative solutions are presented for a variety of old philosophical problems such as: What is the Mind? Why do we use different signs for the same object across different cultures? How is it possible to think on our thinking without getting into problems such as an infinite regression?
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.
| Reihe/Serie | Contemporary Systems Thinking |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 449 g |
| Einbandart | gebunden |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-306-48121-9 / 0306481219 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-306-48121-5 / 9780306481215 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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