A theoretical model of intentionality with an application to neural dynamics

Mind and Matter

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-18

  Haken, Hermann ^a   Tschacher, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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