SYMBOLS OF OCULAR DYNAMICS

From continuous dynamics to symbols

This article deals with mathematical models of discrete identi able symbolic events in neural and cognitive dynamics These dynamical symbols are the sup posed correlates of identi able motor action patterns from phoneme utterances to restaurant visits In the rst main part of the article models of dynamical symbols o ered by dynamical systems theory are reviewed attractors bifurca tions spatial ...

Dynamics of Status Symbols & Social Complexity

In this paper, a symbolic version of the Simmel effect has been explored via computer simulation. By Simmel effect, we mean the dynamics of status symbols in hiearchically ordered societies. This phenomemon was highligthed by the sociologist Georg Simmel (1895), when he attempted to explain the rapid diffusion and decline of fashion. Simmel, hypothesised that the instability of fashion results ...

Dynamics of Status Symbols and Social Complexity

From Continuous Dynamics to Symbols 1

This article deals with mathematical models of discrete, identi able, \symbolic" events in neural and cognitive dynamics. These dynamical symbols are the supposed correlates of identi able motor action patterns, from phoneme utterances to restaurant visits. In the rst main part of the article, models of dynamical symbols o ered by dynamical systems theory are reviewed: attractors, bifurcations,...

Symbols and dynamics in the brain.

The work of physicist and theoretical biologist Howard Pattee has focused on the roles that symbols and dynamics play in biological systems. Symbols, as discrete functional switching-states, are seen at the heart of all biological systems in the form of genetic codes, and at the core of all neural systems in the form of informational mechanisms that switch behavior. They also appear in one form...