* A multidisciplinary book using categories
@ 2007-09-18 16:06 Andree Ehresmann
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I call to your attention our new book: "Memory Evolutive Systems:
Hierarchy, Emergence, Cognition", by Andrée Ehresmann and Jean-Paul
Vanbremeersch, published in Elsevier's Series on Multidisciplinarity
(Volume 4, 2007).
This book, based on a 20 years long series of papers, develops the
theory of Memory Evolutive Systems which we have introduced as a
mathemati-cal model, based on category theory, for complex natural
systems, such as biological, social or cognitive systems. It shows how
well-known categorical operations (in particular (co)limits, partial
completions of categories and fibrations) give an approach to the
problems of hierarchy, emergence/reductionism, self-organization and
learning.
The main tools are exposed in Part A (Hierarchy and emergence), the
global theory in Part B (Memory Evolutive Systems), and Part C
(Applications to cognition and consciousness) is devoted to the case
of cognitive systems, studying the formation of a procedural and a
semantic memory allowing for the emergence of higher cognitive
processes up to consciousness.
The book is written for a multidisciplinary audience, with many
illustrative examples in the most varied domains, but also with short
proofs of the main mathematical results. An animation can be found on
the internet site:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/vbm-ehr/
Comments and critics will be most welcomed.
Andree Ehresmann
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