It is stressed that the brain/mind complex constitutes a monolithic system that functions with emergent properties at several levels of hierarchical organization. These hierarchical levels are non-reducible to one another; they are at least three (neuronal, functional, and semantic), and they function within an interactional plan. From the epistemological view-point, the brain/mind complex uses...

J. Armero,1 J. M. Sancho,1,4 J. Casademunt,1 A. M. Lacasta,2 L. Ramı́rez-Piscina,2 and F. Sagués3 1Departament d’Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 647, E-080028 Barcelona, Spain 2Departament de Fı́sica Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av. Dr. Gregorio Marañón 50, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain 3Departament de Qumı́ca Fı́sica, Universitat de Bar...

Peirce introduced an ingenious classification of signs and a theory of reasoning. Though he maintained that reasoning presupposes signs, to our best knowledge, he did not define a link between his two theories. In this paper we make a first attempt to reveal the possibility for such a relation, in the framework of a cognitively based model of

JACQUELINE KÖHN Conicet, Depto de Geofísica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. e-mail: [email protected] EDUARDO E. KRUSE Conicet, Depto de Geofísica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. JUAN E. SANTOS Conicet, Depto de Geofísica Aplicada, Facultad ...

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Rainer Schmidt,1,* Jofre Ventura,2 Eric Langenberg,2,3 Norbert M. Nemes,1 Carmen Munuera,4 Manuel Varela,2 Mar Garcia-Hernandez,4 Carlos Leon,1 and Jacobo Santamaria1 1Universidad Complutense de Madrid, GFMC, Dpto. Fı́sica Aplicada III, Facultad de Ciencias Fı́sicas, 28040 Madrid, Spain 2Universitat de Barcelona, Dpto. Fı́sica Aplicada i Óptica, Diagonal Sud, Facultats de Fı́sica i Quı́mica, Martı́ i...

In this paper we summarize some fundamental results on left-continuous t-norms. First we study the nilpotent minimum and related operations in considerable details. This is the very first example of a left-continuous but not continuous t-norm in the literature. Then we recall some recent extensions and construction methods.