Fractals of Brain, Fractals of Mind

In search of a symmetry bond
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-272-5127-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 359 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: Advances in Consciousness Research

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 ‘margins’ 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. (Series B)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mac Cormac, Earl

Stamenov, Maxim I.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Dynamische Systeme
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Numerische Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Topologie Mengentheoretische Topologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie