Concepts of mind behind information and communication design

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Lectures

09.01.200413-15 Conventional mind models and conceptsLink to

16.01.200413-15 Mind and modern physicsLink to

06.02.200413-15 Mind and Gestalt theoryLink to

13.02.200413-15 Mind and Complex SystemsLink to

05.03.200413-15 Enactive mindLink to

NOTE! ESSAY WRITING 5.3.2004 15-17 in 4th floor computer class.
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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.
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Teacher

Mauri KaipainenLink to
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Place

Media Lab 3rd floor lecture room, Hämeentie 135 C

NOTE! ESSAY WRITING 5.3.2004 15-17 in 4th floor computer class.
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Target group

MA in New Media, Minors, doctoral_students .
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Language

English
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Requirements and Credits

Attendance min 80% 1 ov

Final essay 5-10 pages 1 ov

Doctoral students please follow ->Link to

Sum 2 ov
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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 TheoryLink 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 TheoryLink to

Whitaker, R. (1995). Overview of Autopoietic Theory.Link to
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Essay instructions

Use formal referencing convention, also for the URLs you use. SeeLink 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
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Sites

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Link to

Artificial lifeLink to

AutopoiesisLink to

BehaviorismLink to

Cellular automataLink to

Chinese room argumentLink to

CognitivismLink to

Computing, online dictionary of (FOLDOC)Link to

ConstructivismLink to

Cybernetic and Systems TheoryLink to

Enactive Cognitive Science in Context: Comparisons with Earlier Tradition (Whittaker 2001)Link to

Encyclopaedia AutopoieticaLink to

Genetic algorithmsLink to

Gestalt theoryLink to

Language of thoughtLink to

Mind, body and DescartesLink to

Modularism of mind and brainLink to

NewtonLink to

Perceptual cycle (Neisser 1976)Link to

PhenomenologyLink to

Relativity theoryLink to

Self-organizing mapsLink to

Strong AILink to

Thinking About Thought (Piero Scaruffi)Link to
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Contact info

Mauri Kaipainen mauri.kaipainen@uiah.fi .eMail to
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