Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 01:30:45 +0900 (JST)
From: Alan Myouka Sondheim <sondheim-AT-gol.com>
Subject: Re: chaos theory & developmental psych




Depends in a deep/technical way on what you mean by "communicating" and
"complexity."

Alan

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 Unleesh-AT-aol.com wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:26:57 EDT
> From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
> Reply-To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: chaos theory & developmental psych
> 
> Any good links or books or ideas on the relationship between chaos theory and
> developmental psych, especially the possibility of recapitulating
> developmental bifurcations in order to explore alternative developmental
> routes in cognition or even motor capacities, thus undoing the rule of
> habitual response? (Undoing conditioned responses of behaviorism through
> overloading, multicausal situations that allow nonlinear responses?)
> Also -- any thoughts on why we privilege humans as intelligent, when, if the
> brain is intelligent because of its organization of neurons, then we might
> expect any organization of systems with this level of complexity to have an
> intelligence : why not unicellular organisms in communicating colonies? Could
> the bacteria of the world form a mind that is intelligent and adaptive?
> 
> (un)leash
> 

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