Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Context Today, we are facing the growing development of distributed systems which their
vast scale has challenged their centralized management. Therefore, many researchers …

Interest in emergence amongst philosophers and scientists has grown in recent years, yet
the concept continues to be viewed with skepticism by many. In this book, Paul Humphreys …

Grand debates over reduction and emergence are playing out across the sciences, but
these debates have reached a stalemate, with both sides declaring victory on empirical …

In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical
knowledge and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of-care, especially in terms of the …

Understanding how humans acquire or learn a language has been controversial in various
disciplines. Most vigorously, psychologists and linguists have been struggling with models …

This paper presents an overview of the diverse body of thought known as 'emergentism', as
it is manifested in the study of language. It is suggested that a unifying theme of emergentist …

Living organisms persist by virtue of complex interactions among many components
organized into dynamic, environment-responsive networks that span multiple scales and …

One of the greatest challenges of consciousness research is to understand the relationship
between consciousness and its implementing substrate. Current research into the neural …

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the postulation of irreducible, distributed
cognitive systems (or group minds as they are also known in the literature) is necessary for …