From Complexity to Creativity Explorations in Evolutionary, Autopoietic, and Cognitive Dynamics /

• Main Author: Goertzel, Ben (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1997.
• Series: IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering, 11
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Political science.; Mathematics.; Complexity, Computational.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Political Science.; Mathematics, general.; Complexity.

Cybernetic pioneer Warren McCullough asked: "What is a man, that he may know a number; and what is a number, that a man may know it?" Thinking along much the same lines, my question here is: "What is a creative mind, that it might emerge from a complex system; and what is a complex sy...

Table of Contents:

• The Complex Mind-Brain
• Dynamics, Evolution, Autopoiesis
• The Psynet Model
• A Theory of Cortical Dynamics
• Perception and Mindspace Curvature
• Formal Tools for Exploring Complexity
• Dynamics and Pattern
• Evolution and Dynamics
• Magician Systems and Abstract Algebras
• Mathematical Structures in the Mind
• The Structure of Consciousness
• Fractals and Sentence Production
• Dream Dynamics
• Artificial Selfhood
• The World Wide Brain
• The Dynamics of Self and Creativity
• Subself Dynamics
• Aspects of Human Personality Dynamics
• On the Dynamics of Creativity.