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,...

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...