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  1. Why the Mind is Not in the Head but in the Society's Connectionist Network.Roland Fischer - 1990 - Diogenes 38 (151):1-28.
    Nothing seems more possible to me than that people some day will come to the definite opinion that there is no copy in the… nervous system which corresponds to a particular thought, or a particular idea, or, memory.WittgensteinIn a recent essay it was emphasized that brain and mind appear to the mind as complementary and reciprocally recursive domains of a hermeneutic circle (Fischer, 1987). An outstanding and not yet recognized feature of this hermeneutic circle is that interpretation within this circle (...)
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  • Matter's Mastermind: the Model-Making Brain: Model as Analogy.Roland Fischer - 1981 - Diogenes 29 (116):18-39.
    Innovative understanding or explanation stems almost exclusively from analogical reasoning. Induction systematizes the familiar; deduction casts it into formal relationship. Reasoning by analogy brings to bear on the familiar a new perspective derived from another realm of inquiry. Models are fruits from the tree of analogical knowledge.
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