Next step, synergetics?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-67
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Tschacher ◽  
Ulrich M. Junghan
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Field Model ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Clinical Applications ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Control Parameters ◽  
Cognitive Problem

Thelen et al. offer an inspiring behavior-based theory of a long-standing cognitive problem. They demonstrate how joining traditions, old (the Gestaltist field theory) and new (dynamical systems theory) may open up the path towards embodied cognition. We discuss possible next steps. Self-organization theory (synergetics) could be used to address the formation of gaze/reach attractors and their optimality, given environmental control parameters. Finally, some clinical applications of the field model are advocated.

scholarly journals The Complex Relations between Organization and Disorganization and Their Conceptual System

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Kun Wu ◽  
Shan Zhang ◽  
Tianqi Wu
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Dynamic Organization

For improving and developing self-organization theory in contemporary complex information systems theory, it is necessary to reinterpret related concepts and their relations and construct a conceptual system related to self-organization theory. Based on the latest research results, this article specifically discusses concepts of organization and disorganization, static organization and dynamic organization, static disorganization and dynamic disorganization, organizing and disorganizing, self-organization and other-organization, self-disorganization and other-disorganization, and their relations. Further, it explores the mechanism of organization and disorganization, the compatibility of organization and disorganization, feedback and mutual other-disorganization in interaction, constraint and freedom of organization and disorganization, complexity of restraint and external factors, and relations between “the good” and “the evil” in restraint and freedom. On this basis, a diagram of the conceptual system of organization and disorganization, including four levels and their relations, is presented.

scholarly journals Some elements for a history of the dynamical systems theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 053110
Author(s):  
Christophe Letellier ◽  
Ralph Abraham ◽  
Dima L. Shepelyansky ◽  
Otto E. Rössler ◽  
Philip Holmes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Dynamical Systems Theory ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Musical Participation

2021 ◽  
pp. 102986492098831
Author(s):  
Andrea Schiavio ◽  
Pieter-Jan Maes ◽  
Dylan van der Schyff
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical System ◽  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Dynamical Systems Theory ◽  
Coordination Dynamics ◽  
Musical Experience ◽  
The Core ◽  
Interactive Dynamics ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Core Features

In this paper we argue that our comprehension of musical participation—the complex network of interactive dynamics involved in collaborative musical experience—can benefit from an analysis inspired by the existing frameworks of dynamical systems theory and coordination dynamics. These approaches can offer novel theoretical tools to help music researchers describe a number of central aspects of joint musical experience in greater detail, such as prediction, adaptivity, social cohesion, reciprocity, and reward. While most musicians involved in collective forms of musicking already have some familiarity with these terms and their associated experiences, we currently lack an analytical vocabulary to approach them in a more targeted way. To fill this gap, we adopt insights from these frameworks to suggest that musical participation may be advantageously characterized as an open, non-equilibrium, dynamical system. In particular, we suggest that research informed by dynamical systems theory might stimulate new interdisciplinary scholarship at the crossroads of musicology, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive (neuro)science, pointing toward new understandings of the core features of musical participation.

scholarly journals Coevolving institutions and the paradox of informal constraints

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Daniel Seligson ◽  
Anne E. C. McCants
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Dynamical Systems Theory ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Long Run

Abstract We can all agree that institutions matter, though as to which institutions matter most, and how much any of them matter, the matter is, paraphrasing Douglass North's words at the Nobel podium, unresolved after seven decades of immense effort. We suggest that the obstacle to progress is the paradigm of the New Institutional Economics itself. In this paper, we propose a new theory that is: grounded in institutions as coevolving sources of economic growth rather than as rules constraining growth; and deployed in dynamical systems theory rather than game theory. We show that with our approach some long-standing problems are resolved, in particular, the paradoxical and perplexingly pervasive influence of informal constraints on the long-run character of economies.

scholarly journals Category Theory for Autonomous and Networked Dynamical Systems

Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Charles Delvenne
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Ergodic Theory ◽  
Category Theory ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
Topological Dynamics ◽  
Control Problems ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Open Systems Theory

In this discussion paper we argue that category theory may play a useful role in formulating, and perhaps proving, results in ergodic theory, topogical dynamics and open systems theory (control theory). As examples, we show how to characterize Kolmogorov–Sinai, Shannon entropy and topological entropy as the unique functors to the nonnegative reals satisfying some natural conditions. We also provide a purely categorical proof of the existence of the maximal equicontinuous factor in topological dynamics. We then show how to define open systems (that can interact with their environment), interconnect them, and define control problems for them in a unified way.

Large deviation principle for the field in prequantum classical statistical field theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. 1750025
Author(s):  
Andrei Khrennikov ◽  
Achref Majid
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Random Field ◽  
Field Model ◽  
Large Deviation Principle ◽  
Large Deviation ◽  
Background Field ◽  
Deviation Principle ◽  
Statistical Field ◽  
Statistical Field Theory

In this paper, we prove a large deviation principle for the background field in prequantum statistical field model. We show a number of examples by choosing a specific random field in our model.

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