Dietmar Bruckner

Dietmar Dietrich

Georg Fodor

Gerhard Zucker

Can psychoanalysis offer a new computer model? Can computer designers help psychoanalysts to understand their theory better?In contemporary publications human psyche is often related to neural networks. Why? The wiring in computers can also be related to application software. But does this really make sense? Artificial Intelligence has tried to implement functions of human psyche. The reached achievements are remarkable; however, the goal to get a functional model of the mental apparatus was not reached. Was the selected direction incorrect?The editors are convinced: yes, and they try to give answers here. If one accepts that the brain is an information processing system, then one also has to accept that computer theories can be applied to the brain’s functions, the human mental apparatus. The contributors of this book - Solms, Panksepp, Sloman and many others who are all experts in computer design, psychoanalysis and neurology are united in one goal: finding synergy in their interdisciplinary fields.

A Technical Neuropsychoanalytical Approach

Simulating the Mind

Heike Burkhard

Wo ist es in Bayern ruhig? Einige Orte drängen sich auf: die spirituelle Stille in der Benediktinerabtei Metten, die Ruhe in der Natur, etwa im Rhododendronpark von Schloss Dennenlohe oder im Sternenpark Rhön. Dietmar Bruckner zeigt, dass man in Bayern auch an ganz unerwarteten Orten Stille finden kann - angesichts von Dürers »Selbstbildnis im Pelzrock« etwa, in einem Feng Shui Park oder im Hotel Kranzbach bei Garmisch. Ja, es gibt beides in Bayern: Die klassische Stille und die so nicht erwartete Stille, gleich um die Ecke.

Seen, Schlaf und Sterne

Orte der Stille in Bayern

Wo ist Bayern noch echt und unverfälscht? Dietmar Bruckner und Heike Burkhard haben sich auf die Suche gemacht und Antworten gefunden: in der meditativen Stille des Bayerischen Walds, bei den Goldwäschern in der Oberpfalz, im romantischen Regensburg, im schräg-skurrilen Luftmuseum in Amberg, beim Zoigl-Bier und bei den Glasbläsern von Frauenau. Hier stießen sie auf urige Menschen und eine über Jahrhunderte gewachsene Kultur, wie man sie in dieser Ursprünglichkeit nur noch selten findet in Deutschland.

Orte der Stille in der Oberpfalz und im Bayerischen Wald

Petra Gruber

Christian Hellmich

Heinz-Bodo Schmiedmayer

Herbert Stachelberger

Ille C. Gebeshuber

The book presents an outline of current activities in the field of biomimetics and integrates a variety of applications comprising biophysics, surface sciences, architecture and medicine. Biomimetics as innovation method is characterised by interdisciplinary information transfer from the life sciences to technical application fields aiming at increased performance, functionality and energy efficiency. The contributions of the book relate to the research areas: - Materials and structures in nanotechnology and biomaterials - Biomimetic approaches to develop new forms, construction principles and design methods in architecture - Information and dynamics in automation, neuroinformatics and biomechanics Readers will be informed about the latest research approaches and results in biomimetics with examples ranging from bionic nano-membranes to function-targeted design of tribological surfaces and the translation of natural auditory coding strategies.

Examples, Ideas and Case Studies

Biomimetics -- Materials, Structures and Processes

Dietmar Bruckner

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