TY - BOOK ID - 77936579 TI - Fractals of brain, fractals of mind : in search of a symmetry bond AU - Mac Cormac, Earl R. AU - Stamenov, Maksim. PY - 1996 VL - 7 SN - 1283121875 9786613121875 902728489X 9789027284891 9781283121873 6613121878 9027251274 9789027251275 1556191871 9781556191879 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Neural networks (Neurobiology) KW - Fractals. KW - Fractal geometry KW - Fractal sets KW - Geometry, Fractal KW - Sets, Fractal KW - Sets of fractional dimension KW - Dimension theory (Topology) KW - Biological neural networks KW - Nets, Neural (Neurobiology) KW - Networks, Neural (Neurobiology) KW - Neural nets (Neurobiology) KW - Cognitive neuroscience KW - Neurobiology KW - Neural circuitry KW - Mathematical models. KW - Fractals KW - Mathematical models KW - Consciousness. KW - Biophysics. KW - Models, Psychological. KW - Fractales KW - Réseaux neuronaux (Neurobiologie) KW - Modèles mathématiques KW - Réseaux neuronaux (physiologie) KW - Fractales. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77936579 AB - This collective volume is the first to discuss systematically what are the possibilities 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 modeling 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. (Series B). ER -