Dear Jon,
I never heard of that statement from McCulloch. But it sounds
resonable. So, I will have to check it out.
Thank you for that.
Danko
On 26/03/15 17:25, Jon Awbrey wrote:
Danko, List,
On mobile and not able to read your paper right now, so maybe you already
mentioned this, but I recall W.S. McCulloch wrote something about “the
reticular formation that marshals our abductions” and he was quite up on Peirce
early on.
Regards,
Jon
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com
On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Danko Nikolic <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
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Web:
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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
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60433 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY
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