Apresentação Dossiê Universal e Particular

A Particular Universal Cellular Automaton

Signals are a classical tool used in cellular automata constructions that proved to be useful for language recognition or firing-squad synchronisation. Particles and collisions formalize this idea one step further, describing regular nets of colliding signals. In the present paper, we investigate the use of particles and collisions for constructions involving an infinite number of interacting p...

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Thematic Roles – Universal , Particular , and Idiosyncratic Aspects

Thematic Roles (or Theta-Roles) are theoretical constructs that account for a variety of well known empirical facts, which are more or less clearly delimited. In other words, Theta-Roles are not directly observable, but they do have empirical content that is open to empirical observation. The objective of the present paper is to sketch the nature and content of Theta-Roles, distinguishing their...

Contradiction in universal and particular reasoning.

A wide range of essential reasoning tasks rely on contradiction identification, a cornerstone of human rationality, communication and debate founded on the inversion of the logical operators "Every" and "Some." A high-density electroencephalographic (EEG) study was performed in 11 normal young adults. The cerebral network involved in the identification of contradiction included the orbito-front...

Universal vs. particular reasoning: a study with neuroimaging techniques

In the present talk I intend to discuss the validity of a model (or better, a class of models) of learning and deuterolearning processes in cognitive systems, constructed combining set-theoretical and proof-theoretical concepts. This class of models is based on ideas coming from different disciplines: 1) Gregory Bateson’s systemic-relational theory of learning and change; 2) G ̈odel’s incomplete...