"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... more
"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.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Edge-of-Chaos Dynamics in Recursively Organized Neural Systems
David M. Alexander and Gordon G. Globus
Fractal Time and the Foundations of Consciousness: Vertical convergence of 1/f phenomena from ion channels to behavioral states
Carl M. Anderson and Arnold J. Mandell
Fractal Thinking: Self-organizing brain processing
Earl Mac Cormac
n-Dimensional Nonlinear Psychophysics: Intersensory interaction as a network at the edge of chaos
Robert A.M. Gregson
Fractal Neurodynamics and Quantum Chaos: Resolving the mind-brain paradox through novel biophysics
Chris King
The Fractal Maximum-Power Evolution of Brain, Mind, and Consciousness
Larry Vandervert
The Fractal-Like Roots of Mind: A tutorial in direct access
Maxim I. Stamenov
Chaotic Dynamics and the Development of Consciousness
John R. Van Eenwyk
