Dear members of Peirce list, I would like to bring to your attention the upcoming theoretical paper in Journal of Theoretical Biology entitled "Practopoiesis: Or how life fosters a mind". The paper proposes neurophysiological/cybernetic account of abductive reasoning, as introduced by Peirce.
As I am not an expert of Perice's work (I am foremost a neuroscientist) but my theory seems to apply to his contribution to logic, I would appreciate very much any critical feedback. Have I understood abduction right? Or did I misted out on something? Also, if there is anything else relevant from Peirce's work that I should pay attention to, I would appreciate knowing. For example, the theory of practopoiesis makes very specific suggestions of how the meaning (semantics) is dealt with within neural systems. I don't know how much this particular proposal is in agreement or in discord with Peirce's work on meaning. One can download a pre-print of the paper here: http://www.danko-nikolic.com/practopoiesis/ Thank you very much, and please do not hesitate to address to me any well-deserved criticism. With best regards, Danko Nikolic -- Prof. Dr. Danko Nikolić Web: http://www.danko-nikolic.com Mail address 1: Department of Neurophysiology Max Planck Institut for Brain Research Deutschordenstr. 46 60528 Frankfurt am Main GERMANY Mail address 2: Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Wolfgang Goethe University Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1 60433 Frankfurt am Main GERMANY ---------------------------- Office: (..49-69) 96769-736 Lab: (..49-69) 96769-209 Fax: (..49-69) 96769-327 [email protected] ----------------------------
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