Processes and Boundaries of the Mind Extending the Limit Line
How is it that the world is conceived as exclusively populated by objects (e.g. books, cars, numbers, and people) while cognition is first and foremost a dynamic process? Inquiring into the `reified universe' Dr. Neuman explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a provo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
2003, 2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
| Series: | Contemporary Systems Thinking
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- On What There Is
- In the Beginning was the Act
- Cat-logue 1: The Cheshire Cat and Descartes
- 4. Beyond the Curtain or into the Looking Glass
- 5. A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of Signs
- Cat-logue 2: Are There Jewish Cats?
- 6. Saussure and Semiotics as a Social System
- 7. The Mind as a Semiotic Interface
- Cat-logue 3: It Means Nothing
- 8. We Have Never Been Too Abstract
- Cat-logue 4: Where Does the Frame End?
- 9. A Snake that Bites Its Tail
- 10. The Demon of Circularity
- 11. Origins
- Cat-logue 5: The Hole in the Bagel
- 12. Laws of Form
- Cat-logue 6: Inside the Outside
- 13. Toward a Phenomenology of Boundaries
- Cat-logue 7: How Deep is the Surface?
- 14. Peter Pan’s Shadow and the Empty Observer
- 15. On Turing’s Carnal Error
- 16. What is so Complex about Complexity?
- Cat-logue 8: Speaking with the Cat about Spinoza
- 17. Toward a Dialogical Complexity
- 18. The Architectonics of the Mind
- Cat-logue Which Is an Epilogue: Where a Blind Man Ends
- References
- Endnotes
- Name Index