内容简介

The understanding of cognition is certainly one of the most challenging endeavours of the human mind.The present book,editde by Wolfgang Tschacher and Jean-Pierre Dauwalder,reflects modern trends to which these esitors as well as others have given significant impulses. We are increasingly adopting ideas that the human mind and its material substrate,the brain,obey principles that govern a quite fundamental phenomenon of nature,namely that of self-organization.
The problen of cognition thus appears in a new light.A number of these ideas can now be formulated by using concepts from the interdisciplinary fidld of synergetics.It is certainly not a coincidence that almost simultaneously a similar trend becomes apparent in the United States,where quite often the theory of synergetics and its implications have been applied in the study of psychological phenomena including that of cognition.