9th Herbstakademie
SELF-ORGANIZATION OF COGNITION AND APPLICATIONS TO PSYCHOLOGY
Ascona / Monte Verità, October 25th - 28th, 2000
«In the opposite way, order — order — order — chaos”» (explaining hysteresis in perception whereby recognition depends on previously shown figures)
«The field is arranged such that under certain conditions the interactions in the field allow the peak from a specific input to be maintained after the stimulus itself has died away».
«I want you all to think here about the situation where you study your own systems. And you as scientists choose your own levels of description. I am not talking about top-down or bottom-up or anything like that. Choose the level of description».
«The idea is that adaptive learning eventually produces such optimal performance. Examples of these developments are described, and the principles that underlie the developments are related to those that have motivated progress in dynamical systems and self-organization» (from the abstract).
«In brain dynamics, we have shown some medication effects and we have shown the relationship, well, the correlation, between brain dynamics and emotional states».
«In the developments of capacities to transcend time and space we have the possibility to go from memory to anticipation. And emotional styles of integrating past and future become dominant».
«How can we combine the notions that we have about how attitudes and beliefs and motives are acquired in interaction with the environment?»