The Mind, The Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems

Abstract

Mental Processes and Brain Architecture: Confronting the Complex Adaptive Systems of Human Thought (An Overview) (Jerome L. Singer) Complex Adaptive Systems (Murray Gell-Mann) Near Decomposability and Complexity: How a Mind Resides in a Brain (Herbert A. Simon) Can There Be A Unified Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems? (John H. Holland) Neurobiology of Mental Representation (Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic) The Organization of Memory (Larry R. Squire and Barbara J. Knowlton) Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything About Consciousness? (Patricia Smith Churchland) The Rediscovery of the Unconscious (John F. Kijlstrom) Affects and Neuro-Modulation: A Connectionist Approach (David Rumelhart) Thinking Away and Ahead (John Antrobus) Natural Learning, Natural Teaching: Changing Human Memory (Roger C. Schank and John B. Cleave) Does Mind Piggyback on Robotic and Symbolic Capacity? (Stevan Harnad) Evolution as An AlgorithmThe Ultimate Insult?