DYNAMICS SYNERGETICS AUTONOMOUS AGENTS

Author: WTschacher
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Publish Date: 1999-10-01
Features: The understanding of cognition is certainly one of the most challenging endeavours of the human mind. The present book, edited by Wolfgang Tschacher and Jean-Pierre Dauwalder, reflects modern trends to which skeptics as well as others have given significant impulses. We are increasingly adopting ideas that the human mind and its material substrate, the brain, obey principles that govern a quite fundamental phenomenon of nature, namely that of self-organization. The problem of cognition thus appears in a new light. A number of these ideas can now be formulated by using concepts from the interdisciplinary field of synergetics. It is certainly not a coincidence that almost simultaneously a similar trend becomes apparent in the United States, where quite often the theory of synergetics and its implications have been applied in the study of psychological phenomena, including that of cognition.