Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword: Phenomenology of the Dissipative Triad
Chapter 1. Organisms as “Far From Equilibrium” Systems: Is Life the Ordered Byproduct of a Continuous Imbalance?
Chapter 2. Intrinsic perception, fundamental memory and adaptation. Shannon dissipation as an engine of complexity
Chapter 3. Shannon Entropy Dissipation, Chaotic Dynamics and Mechanisms. On the Origin of the Biological Evolution and of the Human Mind
Chapter 4. The Origin and Development of the Human Mind from a Dissipative Perspective
Chapter 5. Insights on the “Navigator Therapy” (or Vella’s method)
About the Authors
Conclusions
References
Index
Reviews
“This book represents a true novelty in the field of life sciences and epistemology. The authors have reached an authoritative expertise in the complex biological fields of neuroscience (SC) and immunology (SC, AV) and, with particular reference to Dr Giovanni Vella, who began the approach in the early 1990, in this editorial effort they attempted to elucidate the role and the underneath neural-psychic mechanisms of the Navigator therapy, a psychotherapeutic approach based on the “bodily-cognitive re-structuring.” Professor Tatyana Belikhina, MD, PhD (Psychiatrist-Deputy of Director, Center of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology, Semey University, Kazakhstan), and Dr. Geir Bjørklund (President- Council for Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (CONEM), Mo i Rana, Norway)
“This book attracted my attention, the logical texture of a psychologist, because the authors attempted a bold effort to reach the “hard problem” starting from the apparently “crude” biology. I think honestly that this book deserves to be read and expanded in those fields where science debates too much little about the human being.” Nicola C. Capobianco, Ph.D., Psychologist, Italy
Audience
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