Introduction

Arturo Carsetti

7-23

Functional realism

Franz Wuketits

27-38

Complexity and cognition

Domenico Parisi

39-49

From visual perception to decision making

a synergetic approach

Hermann Haken

51-66

Connectionist psychology and synergetics of cognition

Eliano Pessa

67-90

Self-organisation in perception the case of motion

Riccardo Luccio

91-100

Expressiveness and complexity of formal systems

Giorgio Ausiello, Luca Cabibbo

103-120

Imposing polynomial time complexity in functional programming

Corrado Bohm

121-126

Self-organizing networks

weak, strong and intentional, the role of their underdetermination

Henri Atlan

127-142

Self-organization

epistemological and methodological aspect of the unity of reality

Johann Götschl

143-166

How science approaches the world

risky truths versus misleading certitudes

Fortunato Tito Arecchi

167-187

On self-reference and self-description

Karl Svozil

189-197

Self-organization and computability

Moshe Koppel, Henri Atlan

201-209

The difference between clocks and Turing machines

Giuseppe Longo

211-232

Sheaf mereology and space cognition

Jean Petitot

233-252

Linguistic structures, cognitive functions and algebraic semantics

Arturo Carsetti

253-286