Turing instabilities in biology, culture, and consciousness? On the enactive origins of symbolic material culture

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 199-214

  Froese, Tom ^a,b,c   Woodward, Alexander ^a   Ikegami, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b IIMAS UNAM   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Enaction; hallucination; human cognition; representation; sense making; Turing patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879363083     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712313483145     Document Type: Article

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