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Fullilove / Wallace

Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents:

Institutional distributed cognition, racial policy, and public health in the United States

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-387-76764-2
Verlag: Springer US
Erscheinungstermin: 17.12.2007
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An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness implementing approaches developed previously by the cognitive scientist Bernard Baars and the philosopher Fred Dretske.

This book takes a more formal 'groupoid' perspective and generalizes the results of that book to processes of 'distributed cognition' characteristic of large institutions that can entertain several, sometimes many, simultaneous 'global workspaces' which must compete for resources while communicating and cooperating.

Equivalence classes of 'states' produce a network of language-analogs characterizing interacting cognitive modules which entertain multiple workspaces. Equivalence classes of these language-analogs produce dynamical manifolds describing temporal processes carried out by multiple-workspace institutions.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780387767642
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-387-76764-2
  • Verlag: Springer US
  • Erscheinungstermin: 17.12.2007
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2008
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 494 g
  • Seiten: 206
  • Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 17 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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Consciousness And Distributed Cognition.- Formal Theory.- Pathologies Of Collective Consciousness.- Disease And Collective Consciousness.- The Failure Of Aids Control And Treatment In The Us.- Final Remarks.- Mathematical appendix.- References.