Constructing Reality

The "Operationalization" of Bateson’s Conjecture on Cognition

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Piero Mella

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Springerbriefs in Psychology

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This brief presents an overview of Gregory Bateson’s Constructivist method of Cognition. Bateson proposes a theory of cognition that is based on the abstract notion of difference that the mind distinguishes and perceives and represents information that constitutes and separates how different states are ordered, grouped, and classified. Bateson, however, does not clearly indicate how a cognitive system can develop a knowledge of reality from the perception of these differences. This book seeks to offer a scientific approach to Constructivism. Using Bateson’s hypothesis, chapters discuss how our mind distinguishes and elaborates differences, allowing us to form perceptions of objects, and how these objects can be described and compared. Chapters also discuss how from differences, it is possible to construct concepts or ideas of how these can be defined and how to derive from these differences the meanings of the signs used for the structuring of languages. The brief offers a coherent structure of propositions that form an interpretative theory of the modus operandi of the human mind, which will be useful not only in shedding light on our cognitive processes, but also in laying the formal groundwork for artificial intelligence. Constructing Reality is a must-have resource for researchers and students of the cognitive sciences, as well as education sciences, and researchers and scholars of artificial intelligence, learning theory, and intelligent automata programming.

Author Biography:

Piero Mella is Full Professor of Business Economics and Control Theory in the Faculty of Economics, University of Pavia. In the past, he has been the Dean of the Faculty as well as the Director of its Department of Business Research. He has authored dozens of publications (among which a treatise entitled Amministrazione d’Impresa [Management of the Firm], UTET Press), and for years he has researched systems theory from multiple perspectives. His recent essays about systems theory include: The Holonic Revolution. Holons, Holarchies and Holonic Networks. The Ghost in the Production Machine (Pavia University Press. Pavia, 2009), Systems Thinking: Intelligence in Action (Springer, 2012), The Magic Ring: Systems Thinking Approach to Control Systems (Springer, 2014) and The Combinatory Systems Theory. Understanding, modeling and simulating collective phenomena (Springer, 2017).

Release date Australia

June 11th, 2020

Author

Piero Mella

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2020

Illustrations

23 Illustrations, color; 5 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 103 p. 28 illus., 23 illus. in color.

Pages

103

Series

Springerbriefs in Psychology

ISBN-13

9783030441319

Product ID

33218205

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