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Volume 17: Number 2: Article 2
Problems of Reproducibility in Complex Mind-Matter Systems
Harald Atmanspacher, Institut fur Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und
Psychohygiene, Freiburg, Germany
Robert G. Jahn, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research,
Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544-5263
Systems exhibiting relationships between mental states and material
states, briefly mind-matter systems, offer epistemological and methodological
problems exceeding those of systems involving mental states or material
states alone. Some of these problems can be addressed by proceeding
from standard first-order approaches to more sophisticated second-order
approaches. These can illuminate questions of reference and validity,
and their ramifications for the topic of reproducibility. For various
situations in complex systems it is shown that second-order approaches
need to be employed. Considering mind-matter systems as generalized
complex systems provides some guidelines for analyzing the problem of
reproducibility in such systems from a novel perspective.
Keywords: complexity, meaning, mind-matter systems, reproducibility,
second-order thinking
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Problems of Reproducibility in Complex Mind-Matter Systems
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