Mind: Anticipation and Chaos

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Dresden University Press, 1991 - 161 pages
 

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Page 8 - The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Page 114 - O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive...
Page 8 - But thought can with difficulty visit the intricate and winding chambers which it inhabits. It is like a river whose rapid and perpetual stream flows outwards;— like one in dread who speeds through the recesses of some haunted pile, and dares not look behind.
Page 4 - Many people would sooner die than think In fact they do -Bertrand Russel (English philosopher) The Universe responds to thought.
Page 114 - Now, no matter how many experiments are made, that direction is found to vary absolutely irregularly as the time between the two instants is decreased. An unprejudiced observer would therefore come to the conclusion that he was dealing with a function without derivative, instead of a curve to which a tangent could be drawn.
Page 44 - Be prepared for. . . ." I assume that when Heraclitus (as quoted by Diogenes) said, "Much learning does not teach understanding," he might have had in mind that it is not by storing, retrieving, and matching knowledge that we understand things or events, but by "throwing various nets" in anticipation of questions, situations, and decisions to be made.
Page 120 - ... where d is the fractal dimension for an object of N parts, each scaled down by a ratio r. For an estimation of this dimension we can use the following equation: (5.7) where N(r) = number of boxes contained in a geometrical object and r = size of the box.
Page 120 - It can be divided into N identical parts each of which is scaled down by the ratio r= 1/N from the whole.
Page 140 - look at parts of human thinking that seem (to some of us) to involve more than computing and try to develop precise uncomputable models of them"66.
Page 20 - InformaR .epresentation implies an act of recognition: the presenter (eg, a name, a picture, an accent) as related to what it represents (someone who has that name, looks like the picture, speaks with an accent), and as such is a relation. Representations can have different functions: evocation, stimulation, information, association, among others not always under the total control of the encoder and not always transparent to those involved in decoding a representation. 30'- Questions for 10'

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