Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science - Vol. 6
THE COMPLEX MATTERS OF THE MIND
by Franco Orsucci (Rome International University & Institute for Complexity Studies, Rome)
This book focuses on the successes and difficulties of nonlinear studies, particularly in the areas of Mind Sciences. It attempts to answer the following questions: is an interdisciplinary contamination of complexity studies in different disciplines useful? Does this contamination originate in a transdisciplinary toolbox of methods and models which is worth calling it "Nonlinear Science"? What are the relations between the metaphoric approach and the mathematical approach in natural sciences and humanities? Complexity in the Life Sciences represents a fundamental workbench for these kinds of problems. The fascinating challenge in these areas is represented by studies on mind functioning.
Contents:
- Foreword (W J Freeman)
- Complexity in Science: Syntaxis versus
Semantics (F T Arecchi)
- Complexity and Fractals in Physics (L Pietronero)
- Dynamical Systems in Psychology: Linguistic Approaches (W Sulis)
- Nonlinear Dynamics in Language and Psychobiological Interactions (F Orsucci)
- Minimal Models for Dyadic Processes: A Review (S Rinaldi & A Gragnani)
- Fractal Dynamics of Heartbeat Interval Fluctuations in Health and Disease (M Meyer et al.)
- Epistemological and Treatment Implications of Nonlinear Dynamics (A H Stein)
- The Six Fundamental Characteristics of Chaos and Their Clinical Relevance to Psychiatry: A New Hypothesis for the Origin of Psychosis (G B Schmid)
- Social Anthropological Considerations on the Predictability and Upredictability of Community Outcomes (G O Smith)
- Models Portability: Some Considerations about Transdisciplinary Approaches (A Giuliani)
Readership: Neuroscientists, psychologists, applied mathematicians,
physicists, biologists and computer scientists.
"The volume also includes a short but excellent foreword by Walter Freeman, briefly recounting the long history of paradigms by which the relationships between mind, body, and brain have been conceptualized ... The papers are not out of date, and as a group they present an excellent representation of the multi-disciplinarity that is the hallmark of the sciences of complexity when applied to the life sciences ... This book is recommended for libraries as well as for private collections for sophisticated readers in the multifaceted arena of mind, brain, and complexity."
| Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences |
| 232pp |
Pub. date: May 1998 |
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