Synergetics of Cognition Proceedings of the International Sympos

This book presents the invited lectures given at the International Symposium on Synergetics of Cognition held at SchloB Elmau, Bavaria (Fed. Rep. of Germany), June 4-8, 1989. The understanding of the processes underlying cognition is certainly one of the

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Editor: Hermann Haken

Synergetics, an interdisciplinary field of research, is concerned with the cooperation of individual parts of a system that produces macroscopic spatial, temporal or functional structures. It deals with deterministic as well as stochastic processes.

Volume 40 Information and Self-Organization A Macroscopic Approach to Complex Systems By H. Haken Volume 41 Propagation in Systems Far from Equilibrium Editors: J.E. Wesfreid, H.R. Brand, P. Manneville, G. Albinet, N. Boccara Volume 42 Neural and Synergetic Computers Editor: H. Haken Volume 43 Cooperative Dynamics in Complex Physical Systems Editor: H. Takayama Volume 44 Optimal Structures in Heterogeneous Reaction Systems Editor: P. J. Plath Volume 45 Synergetics of Cognition Editors: H. Haken, M. Stadler Volume 46 Theories of Immune Networks Editors: H. Atlan, I. R. Cohen Volume 47 Relative Information Theories and Applications By G. Jumarie

Volumes 1-39 are listed on the back inside cover

H. Haken M. Stadler (Eds.)

Synergetics of Cognition Proceedings of the International Symposium at SchloB Elmau, Bavaria, June 4-8,1989

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Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Hermann Haken Institut rurTheoretische Physik und Synergetik der Universitiit Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring S7/IV, 0-7000 Stuttgart 80, Fed. Rep. of Germany and Center for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA

Professor Dr. Michael Stadler Fachbereich Human- und Sozialwissenschaften, Studiengang Psychologie, Universitiit Bremen, 0-2800 Bremen 33, Fed. Rep. of Germany

Series Editor: Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Hermann Haken Institut rurTheoretische Physik und Synergetik der Universitiit Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring S7/IV, 0-7000 Stuttgart 80, Fed. Rep. of Germany and Center for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA

ISBN-13: 978-3-642-48781-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-48779-8 DOl: 10.1007/ 978-3-642-48779-8

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Preface

This book presents the invited lectures given at the International Symposium on Synergetics of Cognition