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Determinisms of Behavior and Synergetics

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Amplitude equations of BAB patterns:

Equations that define how amplitudes of BAB patterns evolve (in time). If an amplitude of a particular BAB pattern becomes finite while all other amplitudes approach values close to zero, then the corresponding BAB pattern has emerged and the human being under consideration performs the corresponding behavior.

Brain activity and body (BAB) patterns:

Patterns associated with human behaviors that can feature various components such as spatiotemporal patterns of brain activity, neural activity in descending pathways to muscles, neural activity in ascending pathways from peripheral sensors, muscle activity, and limb movements. In fact, the patterns may include aspects of the environment of a human being under consideration.

Determinism:

Behavioral activities are determined by laws. The laws correspond to if-then relationships. If a human actor is in a particular state (characterized by internal variables describing the human and external...

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Frank, T.D. (2018). Determinisms of Behavior and Synergetics. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_695-1

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