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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed December 31, 2013). |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Cognition in Geosciences: The Feeding Loop between Geo-Disciplines, Cognitive Sciences and Epistemology -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction by the special editor -- Acknowledgements -- Summary of the book -- Key ideas -- Chapter 1. The debate about human mind -- Summary -- 1.1 Introduction: the role of geosciences -- 1.2 Cognitive sciences: an overview -- 1.3 Final remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 2. Circular thinking in geophysics -- Summary -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Inversion: an overview |
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2.3 Cooperative inversions2.4 Integration loop of seismic, electromagnetic and gravity data in a thrust belt region -- 2.5 Looking at geophysics from a different point of view -- 2.6 Final remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 3. Significance in philosophy and in geosciences -- Summary -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theories of the significance -- 3.3 Significance in geosciences -- 3.4 A geological puzzle -- 3.5 Integration -- 3.6 Joint operators in geosciences -- 3.7 Semantic entropy -- 3.8 A simple experiment -- 3.9 Entropies |
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3.10 Examples of entropy trend in geophysics3.11 Biology of the significance -- 3.12 The significance of significance -- 3.13 Final remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 4. From significance to creativity -- Summary -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Semantic systems -- 4.3 Dynamics of semantic systems -- 4.4 Semantic transformations: from integration to creativity -- 4.5 Oscillations -- 4.6 An example of creativity in the geoscience community -- 4.7 Semantic landscapes -- 4.8 Final remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 5. Biological, semantic and neural populations -- Summary |
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5.1 Introduction5.2 Recursive processes, convergences and oscillations -- 5.3 Dynamical systems, attractors and chaos -- 5.4 Attractors in geosciences -- 5.5 Attractors in neural activity -- 5.6 Practical implications -- 5.7 Final remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 6. Knowledge and complexity in the geosciences -- Summary -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Knowledge: an historical overview -- 6.3 Complexity -- 6.4 Dissipative systems -- 6.5 Complexity in the geosciences -- 6.6 Dissipative systems in the geosciences |
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6.7 Semantic systems, complexity and dissipative systems6.8 Semantic systems in the geosciences -- 6.9 Final remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 7. Language and communication in the geosciences -- Summary -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Language -- 7.3 Language in the geosciences -- 7.4 Communication in the geosciences -- 7.5 Final remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 8. Aesthetics and geosciences -- Summary -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The modern concept of aesthetics -- 8.3 The aesthetics of the significance: shape and process -- 8.4 Aesthetics and geosciences |
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Cognition in Geosciences: The Feeding Loop Between Geo-disciplines, Cognitive Sciences and Epistemology presents the basic idea that the geosciences can contribute to elucidate some unsolved problems of epistemology and cognition. This book introduces the fundamental concept of a semantic system, which comprises information plus human resources and technology. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the fundamental processes of macro-cognition, including spatial perception, creativity, information clustering, information processing, and concept formation. This text t. |
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Earth sciences.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Cognition.
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Cognition |
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Sciences de la terre.
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Théorie de la connaissance.
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Cognition.
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earth sciences.
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epistemology.
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cognition.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Geophysics.
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Cognition
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Earth sciences
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Hubral, Peter, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789073834415 (electronic bk.) |
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9073834414 (electronic bk.) |
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9789073834682 (electronic bk.) |
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9073834686 (electronic bk.) |
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AU@ 000056681983 |
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DEBBG BV042301671 |
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DEBSZ 400990075 |
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NZ1 15342294 |
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