F. Heylighen, "Self-organization, emergence and the architecture of complexity," First European Conf. System Science, 1989, pp. 23--32.  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....towards the solution of the problem) can be hold in short term memory and tested as to their potential for solving the problem. This mechanism enabling recombination of chunks or concepts forms the basis of the rational conceptual level of cognition, which distinguishes humans from animals, cf. Heylighen, 1990a) It is clear that the 7 2 boundary severely limits the number of possible combinations which can be explored in this way. Warfield (1988) considers the combinations as the power set of the set of the initial number of aspects to be considered, and thus concludes that this initial number cannot ....

....it cannot distinguish the relevant features of a problem on its own. In practice, a computer program will need a human user to introduce the data in the form of discrete chunks. Though the cognitive system of a human is capable of distinction, these distinctions are in general not invariant (cf. Heylighen, 1990d) They depend on the state of the whole associative network, which is determined by all the things experienced, either through perception, through thinking or through action. In other words, the distinctions made by a human observer, which define the content or meaning of the chunks he or she ....

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Heylighen F. (1989b) : "Self-Organization, Emergence and the Architecture of Complexity", in: Proc. European Congress on System Science, (AFCET, Paris), p. 23-32.

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F. Heylighen, "Self-organization, emergence and the architecture of complexity," First European Conf. System Science, 1989, pp. 23--32.

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