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Dynamics in and of Attractor Landscapes Parmenides Workshop, Elba, May, 22nd/23rd 2008

Dynamics in and of Attractor Landscapes Parmenides Workshop, Elba, May, 22nd/23rd 2008. Thomas Filk Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking, Capoliveri, Italy Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg Institute of Physics, Univ ersity of Freiburg.

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Dynamics in and of Attractor Landscapes Parmenides Workshop, Elba, May, 22nd/23rd 2008

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  1. Dynamics in and of Attractor LandscapesParmenides Workshop, Elba, May, 22nd/23rd 2008 Thomas Filk Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking, Capoliveri, Italy Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg Elba, May, 22nd 2008

  2. The Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking • “Thinking” needs a scientific definition. • “The study of thinking” became a subject of science only “recently” after the observational techniques became available. • In times where “information” and “knowledge” are easily accessible, the use of knowledge for further insight is the main challenge.

  3. What is “thinking”? Working definition: Thinking is “linking mental content”.

  4. Activities of the Foundation Faculty Research Program Applications, Projects Workshops

  5. The Faculty

  6. Research & Applications

  7. What happens in the brain when we think? mental state m. st. mental state mental state m. st. mental state ment. state mental state What makes this sequence different from a random walk?

  8. What happens in the brain when we think? Context task perception mental state m. st. mental state mental state m. st. mental state ment. state mental state mood, chemicals experience, history

  9. Dynamics “in” Attractor Landscapes mental state m. st. mental state mental state m. st. mental state ment. state mental state

  10. Dynamics “of” Attractor Landscapes Symmetry breaking Phase transition Bifurcation The dynamics in and of attractor landscapes is one way of approaching the question „What happens in the brain when we think?“.

  11. Center for the Study of Thinking

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