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Chaotic Logic

Language, Thought, and Reality from the Perspective of Complex Systems Science

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  • © 1994

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  1. Ben Goertzel

    1. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-12

  3. Pattern and Prediction

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    Pages 13-23

  4. The Structure of Thought

    • Ben Goertzel
    Pages 25-42

  5. Psychology and Logic

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    Pages 43-61

  6. Linguistic Systems

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    Pages 63-87

  7. Crucial Connections

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    Pages 89-112

  8. Self-Generating Systems

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    Pages 113-143

  9. The Cognitive Equation

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    Pages 145-164

  10. Belief Systems

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    Pages 165-190

  11. Biological Metaphors of Belief

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    Pages 191-212

  12. Mind and Reality

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    Pages 213-239

  13. Dissociative Dynamics

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    Pages 241-264

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 265-278
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About this book

This book summarizes a network of interrelated ideas which I have developed, off and on, over the past eight or ten years. The underlying theme is the psychological interplay of order and chaos. Or, to put it another way, the interplay of deduction and induction. I will try to explain the relationship between logical, orderly, conscious, rule-following reason and fluid, self­ organizing, habit-governed, unconscious, chaos-infused intuition. My previous two books, The Structure of Intelligence and The Evolving Mind, briefly touched on this relationship. But these books were primarily concerned with other matters: SI with constructing a formal language for discussing mentality and its mechanization, and EM with exploring the role of evolution in thought. They danced around the edges of the order/chaos problem, without ever fully entering into it. My goal in writing this book was to go directly to the core of mental process, "where angels fear to tread" -- to tackle all the sticky issues which it is considered prudent to avoid: the nature of consciousness, the relation between mind and reality, the justification of belief systems, the connection between creativity and mental illness,.... All of these issues are dealt with here in a straightforward and unified way, using a combination of concepts from my previous work with ideas from chaos theory and complex systems science.

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  • University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Ben Goertzel

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