Fractals of brain, fractals of mind : in search of a symmetry bond / edited by Earl Mac Cormac, Maxim I. Stamenov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mac Cormac, Earl R.

Stamenov, Maksim.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 7.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neural networks (Neurobiology)--Mathematical models.

Neural networks (Neurobiology).

Fractals.

Physical Description:

x, 359 p. : ill. (some col.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1996.

Language Note:

English

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 '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).

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Edge-of-Chaos Dynamics in Recursively Organized Neural Systems

Fractal Time and the Foundations of Consciousness: Vertical convergence of 1/f phenomena from ion channels to behavioral states

Fractal Thinking: Self-organizing brain processing

Earl R. Mac Cormac n-Dimensional Nonlinear Psychophysics: Intersensory interaction as a network at the edge of chaos

Fractal Neurodynamics and Quantum Chaos: Resolving the mind-brain paradox through novel biophysics

The Fractal Maximum-Power Evolution of Brain, Consciousness, and Mind

The Fractal-Like Roots of Mind: A tutorial in direct access

Chaotic Dynamics and the Development of Consciousness

Subject Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-12187-5

9786613121875

90-272-8489-X

OCLC:

721195454