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Transcendental self-organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Carl N. Johnson  and
Melanie Nyhof
Carl N. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology in Education, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA15260
Melanie Nyhof*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA15260
*
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Abstract:

Bering makes a good case for turning attention to an organized system that provides the self with transcendental meaning. In focusing on the evolutionary basis of this system, however, he overlooks the self-organizing properties of cognitive systems themselves. We propose that the illusory system Bering describes can be more generally and parsimoniously viewed as an emergent by-product of self-organization, with no need for specialized “illusion by design.”

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 478
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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