Ebook: Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the Limit Line

How is it that the world is conceived as exclusively populated by objects (e.g. books, cars, numbers, and people) while cognition is first and foremost a dynamic process? Inquiring into the `reified universe' Dr. Neuman explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a provocative, stimulating and humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, Dr. Neuman is touching basic questions of our Being-in-the-World as cognate creatures, and presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon. Following the footsteps of Gregory Bateson and Valentine Volosinov, the book propagates a process-oriented theory of the mind, in a way that has never been presented before. In this context, new and creative solutions are presented for a variety of old philosophical problems such as: What is the Mind? Why do we use different signs for the same object across different cultures? and how is it possible to think on our thinking without getting into problems such as an infinite regression.

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How is it that the world is conceived as exclusively populated by objects (e.g. books, cars, numbers, and people) while cognition is first and foremost a dynamic process? Inquiring into the `reified universe' Dr. Neuman explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a provocative, stimulating and humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, Dr. Neuman is touching basic questions of our Being-in-the-World as cognate creatures, and presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon. Following the footsteps of Gregory Bateson and Valentine Volosinov, the book propagates a process-oriented theory of the mind, in a way that has never been presented before. In this context, new and creative solutions are presented for a variety of old philosophical problems such as: What is the Mind? Why do we use different signs for the same object across different cultures? and how is it possible to think on our thinking without getting into problems such as an infinite regression.

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How is it that the world is conceived as exclusively populated by objects (e.g. books, cars, numbers, and people) while cognition is first and foremost a dynamic process? Inquiring into the `reified universe' Dr. Neuman explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a provocative, stimulating and humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, Dr. Neuman is touching basic questions of our Being-in-the-World as cognate creatures, and presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon. Following the footsteps of Gregory Bateson and Valentine Volosinov, the book propagates a process-oriented theory of the mind, in a way that has never been presented before. In this context, new and creative solutions are presented for a variety of old philosophical problems such as: What is the Mind? Why do we use different signs for the same object across different cultures? and how is it possible to think on our thinking without getting into problems such as an infinite regression.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-4
On What There Is....Pages 5-7
In the Beginning was the Act....Pages 9-16
Beyond the Curtain or into the Looking Glass....Pages 17-24
A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of Signs....Pages 25-39
Saussure and Semiotics as a Social System....Pages 41-46
The Mind as a Semiotic Interface....Pages 47-54
We Have Never Been Too Abstract....Pages 55-66
A Snake that Bites its Tail....Pages 67-77
The Demon of Circularity....Pages 79-82
Origins....Pages 83-88
Laws of Form....Pages 89-98
Toward a Phenomenology of Boundaries....Pages 99-106
Peter Pan’s Shadow and the Empty Observer....Pages 107-113
On Turing’s Carnal Error....Pages 115-123
What is so Complex about Complexity?....Pages 125-138
Toward a Dialogical Complexity....Pages 139-142
The Architectonics of the Mind....Pages 143-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-170

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How is it that the world is conceived as exclusively populated by objects (e.g. books, cars, numbers, and people) while cognition is first and foremost a dynamic process? Inquiring into the `reified universe' Dr. Neuman explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a provocative, stimulating and humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, Dr. Neuman is touching basic questions of our Being-in-the-World as cognate creatures, and presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon. Following the footsteps of Gregory Bateson and Valentine Volosinov, the book propagates a process-oriented theory of the mind, in a way that has never been presented before. In this context, new and creative solutions are presented for a variety of old philosophical problems such as: What is the Mind? Why do we use different signs for the same object across different cultures? and how is it possible to think on our thinking without getting into problems such as an infinite regression.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-4
On What There Is....Pages 5-7
In the Beginning was the Act....Pages 9-16
Beyond the Curtain or into the Looking Glass....Pages 17-24
A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of Signs....Pages 25-39
Saussure and Semiotics as a Social System....Pages 41-46
The Mind as a Semiotic Interface....Pages 47-54
We Have Never Been Too Abstract....Pages 55-66
A Snake that Bites its Tail....Pages 67-77
The Demon of Circularity....Pages 79-82
Origins....Pages 83-88
Laws of Form....Pages 89-98
Toward a Phenomenology of Boundaries....Pages 99-106
Peter Pan’s Shadow and the Empty Observer....Pages 107-113
On Turing’s Carnal Error....Pages 115-123
What is so Complex about Complexity?....Pages 125-138
Toward a Dialogical Complexity....Pages 139-142
The Architectonics of the Mind....Pages 143-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-170
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