Conciliating neuroscience and phenomenology via category theory

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 347-359

  Ehresmann, Andrée C ^a   Gomez Ramirez, Jaime ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Category; Multi scale self organized systems; Neuro cognitive system; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 84949198740     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.07.004     Document Type: Review

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