Fractals of brain, fractals of mind : in search of a symmetry bond /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1996.
Description:1 online resource (x, 359 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Series:Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 7
Advances in consciousness research ; v. 7.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11261774
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Other authors / contributors:Mac Cormac, Earl R.
Stamenov, Maksim.
ISBN:9789027284891
902728489X
1283121875
9781283121873
9786613121875
6613121878
9027251274
9789027251275
1556191871
9781556191879
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:This collective volume is the first to discuss systematically what are the possibilities to model different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the possibility of brain and mind to implement nonlinear dynamic patterns in their functioning. The contributions discuss the following topics (among others): the edge-of-chaos dynamics in recursively organized neural systems and in intersensory interaction, the fractal timing of the neural functioning on different scales of brain networking, aspects of fractal neurodynamics and quantum chaos in novel biophysics, the fractal maximum-power evolution of brain and mind, the chaotic dynamics in the development of consciousness, etc. It is suggested that the 'margin' of our capacity for phenomenal experience, are 'fractal-limit phenomena'. Here the possibilities to prove the plausibility of fractal modeling with appropriate experimentation and rational reconstruction are also discussed. A conjecture is made that the brain vs. mind differentiation becomes possible, most probably, only with the imposition of appropriate symmetry groups implementing a flowing interface of features of local vs. global brain dynamics.
Other form:Print version: Fractals of brain, fractals of mind. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1996 9027251274