Self: An adaptive pressure arising from self-organization, chaotic dynamics and neural Darwinism

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 541-566

  Bruzzo, Angela Alessia ^a   Vimal, Ram Lakhan Pandey ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Vision Research Institute   (United States)

^c Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana ^*  (India)

^d Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana   (India)

^e Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana   (India)

Author keywords

Attractor; Chaos theory; Consciousness; Depersonalization; Emergent property; Fractals; Metastability; Proto experience; Self; Self organization; Stability of time; Subjective experience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; MEMORY; ONTOGENY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; SELF CONCEPT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WAKEFULNESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; EGO; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 38049136615     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635207001659     Document Type: Article

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