The article gives an account on the progress made in the study and modeling of the adaptive and learning processes and opens new outlooks for future research. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

Ashby’s Design for a Brain [Ashby 1952] comprises a formal description of the necessary and sufficient conditions for a system to act ‘like a brain,’ that is, to learn in order to remain viable in a changing environment, and to ‘get what it wants’. Remarkably, Ashby gives a complete,...

In this article we address some fundamental questions concerning information: Can the existing laws of physics adequately deal with the most striking property of information, namely to cause specific changes in the structure and energy flows of a complex system, without the information in itself...

In the present paper the main principles of the ericksonian hypnotherapy are disscused: the comunication in client s system of references, symptoms conceptualization and utilization, indirect sugestions and therapeutic mataphores. The authors considers that some hypnotic phenomena specific to...

Reichenbach (1938) distinguishes between ―JUSTIFICATION LOGIC‖ and ―DISCOVERY LOGIC.‖ Weick (1989) sees theorizing as ―disciplined imagination.‖ Weick appropriately captures the essence of theory discovery/creation as ―imagination.‖ Indeed, after centuries of scientific...

In the present paper a psychotherapy model for cancer patients is described. The model, based on clinical hypnosis and cognitive behavior therapy, includes the following strategies: basic relaxation abilities, mintal trening for imunology mechanism improvement, direct and indirect sugestions,...

In this paper we first critically review conventional environmental economics. We conclude that the standard theory offers too narrow a perspective for many real world problems and that many theories are not empirically tested. Consequently, environmental economics is at risk of producing...

This article takes a brief look at the manner in which African American females in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) have been studied over the years. Noting that this group faces challenges due to gender and race, research has not always presented their struggles...

In the pursuit of understanding the behavior of the market player, the basic argument relays on the supposition that the risk appetite increases exactly at the worst moment - when the capacity to assume additional risk decreases significantly.People view a sample randomly drawn from a population...