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Lectures Description Teacher Place Target_group Language Requirements_and_Credits Literature_classics Essay_instructions Sites Contact_info Lectures
09.01.2004 13-15 Conventional mind models and concepts Link to 16.01.2004 13-15 Mind and modern physics Link to 06.02.2004 13-15 Mind and Gestalt theory Link to 13.02.2004 13-15 Mind and Complex Systems Link to 05.03.2004 13-15 Enactive mind Link to NOTE! ESSAY WRITING 5.3.2004 15-17 in 4th floor computer class. CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Description
The course aims at introducing the students to a range of models of human mind from psychological, physiological, environmental, sociological and systemic perspectives as related to information and communication design, making a guided reading and writing tour to literature. CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Teacher
Mauri Kaipainen Link to CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Place
Media Lab 3rd floor lecture room, Hämeentie 135 C NOTE! ESSAY WRITING 5.3.2004 15-17 in 4th floor computer class. CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Target group
MA in New Media, Minors, doctoral_students . CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Language
English CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Requirements and Credits
Attendance min 80% 1 ov Final essay 5-10 pages 1 ov Doctoral students please follow -> Link to Sum 2 ov CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Literature classics
Berrien, F. Kenneth. 1968. General and Social Systems. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Ê Bertalanffy, Ludwig von. 1968. General System Theory. New York: George Braziller, In Bohr, N. (1934/1987), Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature, reprinted as The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Vol. I, Woodbridge: Ox Bow Press Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton. Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper & Row. Einstein, A. (1920) Relativity: The Special and General Theory Link to Everett, H III (1957), "A relative state formulation of quantum mechanicsÓ, Reviews of Modern Physics 29: 454-462. Fodor, Jerry. 1975. The Language of Thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Pressnewo01 Gibson, J. J. (1966). The senses considered as perceptual systems. Boston,: Houghton Mifflin. Bertalanffy, L. von (1973). General Systems Theory. New York: Braziller. Gilbert, Nigel & Conte, Rosaria (Eds.). 1995. Artificial societies: The computer simulation of social life. London: UCL Press. Karjalainen, M.; Laine, U.; Rossi, L.; Silvennoinen, R. (1978). Systeemit - kybernetiikka -informaatio. Espoo: Otakustantamo. Kelso, J.A.S. (1995). Dynamic Patterns. The self-Organization of Brain and Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Luria, A. R. (1973). The Working Brain. Penguin Books. Maturana, H.; Varela, F. (1980). Autopoiesis and cognition: the realization of the living. Dordrecht: Reidel. McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill. Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception (Trans. Colin Smith). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (Original Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945). Phenomenologie de la Perception.) Schroedinger, E. (1935) The Present Situation In Quantum Mechanics Erwin [A translation of Schroedingers "cat paradox" paper" Translator: John D. Trimmer] Link to Searle, J.R. (1980). Minds, Brains and Programs. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, III, 1. Skinner, J. (1953). Science and Human Behavior. New York: Free Press. Varela, F.; Maturana, H.; Uribe, R. (1974). Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, Its Characterization and a Model. Biosystems; Vol 5 (1974), 187-196. Varela, F.; Thompson, E.; Rosch, E. (1991). Embodied mind: Cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press. Wertheimer, M. (1924) Gestalt Theory Link to Whitaker, R. (1995). Overview of Autopoietic Theory. Link to CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Essay instructions
Use formal referencing convention, also for the URLs you use. See Link to Refer to at least one or two formal papers/books (of course many of these are downloadable and printable) - not solely to internet sources. Do not cut and paste. Do not cite directly more than two sentences. Rather digest and express with your own words. Include bibliography. Always define terms and concepts when they first occur in the text. Doc students, bridge the issues to your own doctoral thesis project CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Sites
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Link to Artificial life Link to Autopoiesis Link to Behaviorism Link to Cellular automata Link to Chinese room argument Link to Cognitivism Link to Computing, online dictionary of (FOLDOC) Link to Constructivism Link to Cybernetic and Systems Theory Link to Enactive Cognitive Science in Context: Comparisons with Earlier Tradition (Whittaker 2001) Link to Encyclopaedia Autopoietica Link to Genetic algorithms Link to Gestalt theory Link to Language of thought Link to Mind, body and Descartes Link to Modularism of mind and brain Link to Newton Link to Perceptual cycle (Neisser 1976) Link to Phenomenology Link to Relativity theory Link to Self-organizing maps Link to Strong AI Link to Thinking About Thought (Piero Scaruffi) Link to CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX Contact info
Mauri Kaipainen mauri.kaipainen@uiah.fi . eMail to CONTENTS: MAIN INDEX