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SELF: AN ADAPTIVE PRESSURE ARISING FROM SELF-ORGANIZATION, CHAOTIC DYNAMICS, AND NEURAL DARWINISM

2007; Imperial College Press; Volume: 06; Issue: 04 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1142/s0219635207001659

1757-448X

Angela Bruzzo, Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal,

Cognitive Science and Education Research

Journal of Integrative NeuroscienceVol. 06, No. 04, pp. 541-566 (2007) Research ReportsNo AccessSELF: AN ADAPTIVE PRESSURE ARISING FROM SELF-ORGANIZATION, CHAOTIC DYNAMICS, AND NEURAL DARWINISMANGELA ALESSIA BRUZZO and RAM LAKHAN PANDEY VIMALANGELA ALESSIA BRUZZODepartment of Psychology, University of Bologna, 40100 Bologna, Italy Search for more papers by this author and RAM LAKHAN PANDEY VIMALVision Research Institute, 428 Great Road, Suite 11, Acton, MA 01720, USADristi Anusandhana Sansthana, A-60 Umed Park, Sola Road, Ahmedabad-61, Gujrat, IndiaDristi Anusandhana Sansthana, Sai Niwas, East of Hanuman Mandir, Betiahata, Gorakhpur U.P. 273001, IndiaDristi Anusandhana Sansthana, c/o NiceTech Computer Education Institute, Pendra, Bilaspur, C.G. 495119, IndiaCorresponding author. Search for more papers by this author https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219635207001659Cited by:11 PreviousNext AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsRecommend to Library ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail AbstractIn this article, we establish a model to delineate the emergence of "self" in the brain making recourse to the theory of chaos. Self is considered as the subjective experience of a subject. As essential ingredients of subjective experiences, our model includes wakefulness, re-entry, attention, memory, and proto-experiences. The stability as stated by chaos theory can potentially describe the non-linear function of "self" as sensitive to initial conditions and can characterize it as underlying order from apparently random signals. Self-similarity is discussed as a latent menace of a pathological confusion between "self" and "others". 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