Causality, Meaningful Complexity and Embodied Cognition

1. Front Matter

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2. Consciousness, Intentionality and Self-Organization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Link Between Brain Learning, Attention, and Consciousness

      • Stephen Grossberg

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   3. Emergence of Intentional Procedures in Self-Organizing Neural Networks

      • Henri Atlan, Yoram Louzoun

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   4. Action Goal Representation and Action Understanding in the Cerebral Cortex

      • Leonardo Fogassi

      Pages 57-73

3. Truth, Randomness and Impredicativity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 76-76

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   2. The Genesis of Mathematical Objects, Following Weyl and Brouwer

      • Dirk van Dalen

      Pages 77-85

   3. Randomness, Determinism and Programs in Turing’s Test

      • Giuseppe Longo

      Pages 87-111

   4. Ω-Incompleteness, Truth, Intentionality

      • Sergio Galvan

      Pages 113-124

4. Complexity, Incomputability and Emergence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 126-126

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   2. Leibniz, Complexity and Incompleteness

      • Gregory Chaitin

      Pages 127-133

   3. Incomputability, Emergence and the Turing Universe

      • S. Barry Cooper

      Pages 135-153

   4. Computational Models of Measurement and Hempel’s Axiomatization

      • Edwin Beggs, José Félix Costa, John V. Tucker

      Pages 155-183

   5. Impredicativity of Continuum in Phenomenology and in Non-Cantorian Theories

      • Stathis Livadas

      Pages 185-199

5. Epistemic Complexity and Causality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Reasons Against Naturalizing Epistemic Reasons: Normativity, Objectivity, Non-computability

      • Julian Nida-Rümelin

      Pages 203-210

   3. Some Remarks on Causality and Invariance

      • Raffaella Campaner, Maria Carla Galavotti

      Pages 211-229

   4. Epistemic Complexity from an Objective Bayesian Perspective

      • Jon Williamson

      Pages 231-246

6. Embodied Cognition and Knowledge Construction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Role of Creativity and Randomizers in Human Cognition and Problem Solving

      • Werner Leinfellner

      Pages 249-264

Arturo Carsetti According to molecular Biology, true invariance (life) can exist only within the framework of ongoing autonomous morphogenesis and vice versa. With respect to this secret dialectics, life and cognition appear as indissolubly interlinked. In this sense, for instance, the inner articulation of conceptual spaces appears to be linked to an inner functional development based on a continuous activity of selection and “anchorage” realised on semantic grounds. It is the work of “invention” and g- eration (in invariance), linked with the “rooting” of meaning, which determines the evolution, the leaps and punctuated equilibria, the conditions related to the unfo- ing of new modalities of invariance, an invariance which is never simple repetition and which springs on each occasion through deep-level processes of renewal and recovery. The selection perpetrated by meaning reveals its autonomy aboveall in its underpinning, in an objective way, the ongoing choice of these new modalities. As such it is not, then, concerned only with the game of “possibles”, offering itself as a simple channel for pure chance, but with providing a channel for the articulation of the “ le” in the humus of a semantic (and embodied) net in order to prepare the necessary conditionsfor a continuousrenewal and recoveryof original creativity. In effect, it is this autonomy in inventing new possible modules of incompressibility whichdeterminestheactualemergenceofnew(andtrue)creativity,whichalsotakes place through the “narration” of the effected construction.

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• NC
• boolean satisfiability problem
• code
• complexity
• computability
• constant
• information
• knowledge
• metaphysics
• mind
• reason
• subject
• truth

• Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Roma - Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy

  A. Carsetti

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