Chaotic Logic

Language, Thought, and Reality from the Perspective of Complex Systems Science

Ben Goertzel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-3238-9 (ISBN)

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This book summarizes a network of interrelated ideas which I have developed, off and on, over the past eight or ten years. The underlying theme is the psychological interplay of order and chaos. Or, to put it another way, the interplay of deduction and induction. I will try to explain the relationship between logical, orderly, conscious, rule-following reason and fluid, self organizing, habit-governed, unconscious, chaos-infused intuition. My previous two books, The Structure of Intelligence and The Evolving Mind, briefly touched on this relationship. But these books were primarily concerned with other matters: SI with constructing a formal language for discussing mentality and its mechanization, and EM with exploring the role of evolution in thought. They danced around the edges of the order/chaos problem, without ever fully entering into it. My goal in writing this book was to go directly to the core of mental process, "where angels fear to tread" -- to tackle all the sticky issues which it is considered prudent to avoid: the nature of consciousness, the relation between mind and reality, the justification of belief systems, the connection between creativity and mental illness,.... All of these issues are dealt with here in a straightforward and unified way, using a combination of concepts from my previous work with ideas from chaos theory and complex systems science.

1. Introduction.- 2. Pattern and Prediction.- 3. The Structure of Thought.- 4. Psychology and Logic.- 5. Linguistic Systems.- 6. Crucial Connections.- 7. Self-Generating Systems.- 8. The Cognitive Equation.- 9. Belief Systems.- 10. Biological Metaphors of Belief.- 11. Mind and Reality.- 12. Dissociative Dynamics.- Afterword.- References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Ifsr International Series on Systems Science and Engineering ; 9
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 278 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-4419-3238-0 / 1441932380
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-3238-9 / 9781441932389
Zustand	Neuware