The postmodern brain / Gordon G. Globus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Globus, Gordon G., 1934-

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 1.

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human information processing.

Connectionism.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This interdisciplinary work discloses an unexpected coherence between recent concepts in brain science and postmodern thought. A nonlinear dynamical model of brain states is viewed as an autopoietic, autorhoetic, self-organizing, self-tuning eruption under multiple constraints and guided by an overarching optimization principle which insures conservation of invariances and enhancement of symmetries. The nonlinear dynamical brain as developed shows quantum nonlocality, undergoes chaotic regimes, and does not compute. Heidegger and Derrida are 'appropriated' as dynamical theorists who are concer

Contents:

THE POSTMODERN BRAIN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; PREFACE N; CHAPTER ONE THE UNEXPURGATE D SELF-ORGANIZINGDREAM; CHAPTER TWO. DECONSTRUCTING THE CHINESE ROOM; APPENDIX ADENNETT, THE ILLUSIONIST; APPENDIX B. NETWORK AND BACKGROUND IN SEARLE'S THEORY OF INTENTIONALITY; CHAPTER THREE. THE CONTINENTAL TRADITION AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE; I. Heidegger and Connectionism:Systems that can do what Dasein does; II. Derrida and Connectionism:Différance in neural nets; CHAPTER FOUR. TOWARD A NONCOMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVESCIENCE: THE SELF-TUNING BRAIN

APPENDIXThe Binding ProblemCHAPTER FIVE. PSYCHIATRY AND THE NEW DYNAMICS; CHAPTER SIX. THE ERUPTION OF OTHER AND SELF; I. A DECONSTRUCTION OF CLASSICAL DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY; II. DREAMING OF AUTRE; APPENDIX INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOTHERAPY; CHAPTER SEVEN. POSTMODERNISM AND THE DREAM; APPENDIX REPORT BY REVIEWER #2; CHAPTER EIGHT. TAKE-OFF TO QUANTUM BRAIN DYNAMICS:THE EXCISION FROM DISCOURSE; NOTES; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-17452-9

9786613174529

90-272-8361-3

OCLC:

739051535