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Curious about the brain? About behavior and experiences/feelings, your own and other people's? There's lots on Serendip to help you think about such things, and to encourage you to develop new understandings and new questions about them, including a whole section on Brain and Behavior and another on Mental Health. And, of course, there are new observations being made all of the time, reported in professional journals, newspapers, magazines, books, and on the web.


Learning from Asperger's

Learning from "From the Inside":
Being on the Spectrum

Paul Grobstein
December 2008

Excerpts from and comments on Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison (Crown Publishers, 2007)

 


Deterministic and Non-deterministic Emergence: Non-deterministic Emergence

Non-deterministic Emergence

 

Inquiry approach 3
Non-deterministic emergence

Goal: to contribute to the ongoing creation and exploration of possibilities

Perception of time/evolution: essential as the parameter underlying emergence


Deterministic and Non-deterministic Emergence: From Primal Patterns to Emergence

Ways of Making Sense of the World:
From Primal Patterns to Emergence


Moving beyond primal patterns as a way to make sense of things
"In the beginning was the Word?"

Inquiry approach 1
Primal patterns

Goal: to characterize the underlying pattern that everything actually relates to


Deterministic and Non-deterministic Emergence

Ways of Making Sense of the World:

From Primal Patterns to Deterministic and Non-Deterministic Emergence

 

The world as we perceive it is neither fully disorganized (Figure 1), beyond our ability to identify any overall pattern in it, nor fully organized, describable by us in terms of some single simple pattern (Figure 2). Instead, we are faced with, and find ourselves trying to make sense of, a world that most typically shows mixes of pattern and disorganization at different scales (Figures 3, 4, 5).


Serendip's Complexity and Emergence On-Line Forum

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