1. Introduction. 2. On What There Is. 3. In the Beginning was the Act. 4. Beyond the Curtain or into the Looking Glass. 5. A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of Signs. 6. Saussure and Semiotics as a Social System. 7. The Mind as a Semiotic Interface. 8. We Have Never Been Too Abstract. 9. A Snake that Bites its Tail. 10. The Demon of Circularity. 11. Origins. 12. Laws of Form. 13. Toward a Phenomenology of Boundaries. 14. Peter Pan's Shadow and the Empty Observer. 15. On Turing's Carnal Error. 16. What is so Complex about Complexity? 17. Toward a Dialogical Complexity. 18. The Architectonics of the Mind. References. Name Index. Subject Index. Endnotes.
Language
English
Pages
184
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 2003
ISBN 13
9780306481215
Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the Limit Line
1. Introduction. 2. On What There Is. 3. In the Beginning was the Act. 4. Beyond the Curtain or into the Looking Glass. 5. A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of Signs. 6. Saussure and Semiotics as a Social System. 7. The Mind as a Semiotic Interface. 8. We Have Never Been Too Abstract. 9. A Snake that Bites its Tail. 10. The Demon of Circularity. 11. Origins. 12. Laws of Form. 13. Toward a Phenomenology of Boundaries. 14. Peter Pan's Shadow and the Empty Observer. 15. On Turing's Carnal Error. 16. What is so Complex about Complexity? 17. Toward a Dialogical Complexity. 18. The Architectonics of the Mind. References. Name Index. Subject Index. Endnotes.