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Valenciana

Print version ISSN 2007-2538

Valenciana vol.2 n.3 Valenciana Jan./Jun. 2009

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i3.257 

Artículos

Metafísica y dinámica caótica

Vicente Aboites1 

1Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas. Universidad de Guanajuato.


Resumen

A partir de un enfoque internalista para los estados mentales, se propone que los términos metafísicos son el resultado de estados mentales que, a su vez, son propiedades emergentes de sistemas dinámicos caóticos con atractores coexistentes en el cerebro. Se sugiere que esto proporciona una explicación física para los conceptos metafísicos. Esto se hace a partir de la propuesta de que todos los sistemas dinámicos con atractores coexistentes caóticos, como el cerebro, presentan propiedades emergentes. Obtenemos así una explicación no reductiva de los estados mentales y su alta sensibilidad al ruido y a las condiciones iniciales.

Palabras clave: metafísica; filosofía de la mente; dinámica caótica; propiedades emergentes

Abstract

From an internalist viewpoint for mental states, it is proposed that any dynamical system with coexisting chaotic attractors has an emergent property. This provides a non reductive explanation of mental states and their high sensitivity to noise and initial conditions. If metaphysical terms result from the mental states and these are emergent properties of dynamical systems with coexisting attractors, such as the brain, it is suggested that this may provide a physical explanation of metaphysical concepts.

Keywords: metaphysic; philosophy of the mind; chaotic dynamic emergent properties

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