Processes and Boundaries of the Mind

Extending the Limit Line

Yair Neuman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

170 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4613-4784-2 (ISBN)

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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? and how is it possible to think on our thinking without getting into problems such as an infinite regression.

1. Introduction.- On What There Is.- In the Beginning was the Act.- Cat-logue 1: The Cheshire Cat and Descartes.- 4. Beyond the Curtain or into the Looking Glass.- 5. A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of Signs.- Cat-logue 2: Are There Jewish Cats?.- 6. Saussure and Semiotics as a Social System.- 7. The Mind as a Semiotic Interface.- Cat-logue 3: It Means Nothing.- 8. We Have Never Been Too Abstract.- Cat-logue 4: Where Does the Frame End?.- 9. A Snake that Bites Its Tail.- 10. The Demon of Circularity.- 11. Origins.- Cat-logue 5: The Hole in the Bagel.- 12. Laws of Form.- Cat-logue 6: Inside the Outside.- 13. Toward a Phenomenology of Boundaries.- Cat-logue 7: How Deep is the Surface?.- 14. Peter Pan’s Shadow and the Empty Observer.- 15. On Turing’s Carnal Error.- 16. What is so Complex about Complexity?.- Cat-logue 8: Speaking with the Cat about Spinoza.- 17. Toward a Dialogical Complexity.- 18. The Architectonics of the Mind.- Cat-logue Which Is an Epilogue: Where a Blind Man Ends.- References.- Endnotes.- Name Index.

Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Systems Thinking
Zusatzinfo	X, 170 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	1-4613-4784-X / 146134784X
ISBN-13	978-1-4613-4784-2 / 9781461347842
Zustand	Neuware