Volume seven from the series
ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH
An Interdisciplinary Book Series
is now available:
FRACTALS OF BRAIN, FRACTALS OF MIND
In search of a symmetry bond
Edited by Earl Mac Cormac (Duke University, Medical Center)
and Maxim I. Stamenov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
This collective volume is the first to discuss systematically what are the
5possibilities to model different aspects of brain and mind functioning with
the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here
is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the
possibility of brain and mind to implement nonlinear dynamic patterns in
their functioning. The contributions discuss the following topics (among
others): the edge-of-chaos dynamics in recursively organized neural systems
and in intersensory interaction, the fractal timing of the neural
functioning on different scales of brain networking, aspects of fractal
neurodynamics and quantum chaos in novel biophysics, the fractal
maximum-power evolution of brain and mind, the chaotic dynamics in the
development of consciousness, etc. It is suggested that the `margins' of our
capacity for phenomenal experience, are `fractal-limit phenomena.' Here the
possibilities to prove the plausibility of fractal modelling with
appropriate experimentation and rational reconstruction are also discussed.
A conjecture is made that the brain vs. mind differentiation becomes
possible, most probably, only with the imposition of appropriate symmetry
groups implementing a flowing interface of features of local vs. global
brain dynamics. Contributions by D. Alexander & G. Globus, C. Anderson & A.
Mandell, J. Van Eenwyk, R. Gregson, C. King, E. Mac Cormac, M. Stamenov and
L. Vandervert.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Earl Mac Cormac and Maxim I. Stamenov
Edge-of-Chaos Dynamics in Recursively Organized Neural Systems
David M. Alexander and Gordon G. Globus
Fractal Time and the Foundations of Consciousness: Vertical convergence of
1/f phenomena from ion channels to behavioral states
Carl M. Anderson and Arnold J. Mandell
Fractal Thinking: Self-organizing brain processing
Earl Mac Cormac
n-Dimensional Nonlinear Psychophysics: Intersensory interaction as a network
at the edge of chaos
Robert A.M. Gregson
Fractal Neurodynamics and Quantum Chaos: Resolving the mind-brain paradox
through novel biophysics
Chris King
The Fractal Maximum-Power Evolution of Brain, Mind, and Consciousness
Larry Vandervert
The Fractal-Like Roots of Mind: A tutorial in direct access
Maxim I. Stamenov
Chaotic Dynamics and the Development of Consciousness
John R. Van Eenwyk
Subject Index
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Advances in Consciousness Research, 7
1996. 365 pp (4 color ill.) Pb.
ISBN 90 272 5127 4 (Eur.) 1-55619-187-1 (US)
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is edited by:
Maxim I. Stamenov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, maxstam@bgearn.bitnet)
Gordon G. Globus (University of California, Irvine, globey@pipeline.usa.com)
Editorial Board: David Chalmers, Walter Freeman, Ray Jackendoff, Christof
Koch, Stephen Kosslyn, George Mandler, Ernst P=F6ppel, Richard Rorty, John
Searle, Geoffrey Underwood, Francisco Varela.
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED:
+ Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
+ A defense of the higher-order thought theory of consciousness
+ Rocco J. Gennaro (Indiana State University)
The most sustained attempt yet at developing and defending one of the few
genuine theories of consciousness. The approach is mostly 'analytic' in
style and makes extensive use of the new developments in cognitive science,
perception, AI, neuropsychology and psychopathology, but also of important
Kantian insights.
1996. 243 pp. Pb ISBN 90 272 5126 6 (Eur.) 1-55619-186-3 (US) Hfl 70,-- //
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(AiCR 6)
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+ Locating Consciousness
+ Valery Gray Hardcastle (Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State University)
Novel solutions to a wide range of problems in consciousness research, such
as the binding problem and the absent qualia, drawn from recent data in
cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Locating consciousness argues that
our qualitative experiences should be aligned with the activity of a single
and distinct memory system in our mind/brain.
1995. 283 pp. Pb ISBN 90 272 5124 X (Eur.) 1-55619-183-9 (US) Hfl 70,-- // $
34.95
(AiCR 4)
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+ Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness
+ An introduction
+ Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue (Notre Dame Sheishin University, Okayama)
The burgeoning area of quantum neurophysics and consciousness is given a
systematic foundation in quantum field theory. A quantum theory of memory is
also developed. The first section is a primer on quantum physics which makes
it accessible to a broad interdisciplinary audience.
1995. 260 pp. Pb ISBN 90 272 5123 1 (Eur.) 1-55619-183-9 (US) Hfl 70,-- // $
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(AiCR 3)
+ Questioning Consciousness
+ The interplay of imagery, cognition and emotion in the human brain
+ Ralph D. Ellis (Clark Atlanta University)
This book brings together neuroscientific, psychological and
phenomenological research, combining in a very readable format recent
developments in image research and neurology. It reassesses the mind-body
relation, research on 'mental models', abstract concept formation, and the
acquisition of inference skills.
1995. 270 pp. Pb ISBN 90 272 5122 3 (Eur.) 1-55619-182-0 (US) Hfl 70,-- //
$34.95=20
(AiCR 2)
+ The Postmodern Brain
+ Gordon G. Globus (University of California, Irvine)
The unexpected coherence between recent concepts in brain science and
postmodern thought forms the basis for this book. Using a playful,
postmodern style, the author develops a noncomputational theory of mind
based in a nonlinear dynamical brain with quantum degrees of freedom.
1995. 200 pp. Pb ISBN 90 272 5121 5 (Eur.) 1-55619-1812 (US) Hfl 65,-- //=
$29.95
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