THE TOPOLOGY OF WHOLES, PARTS AND THEIR PERCEPTION-COGNITION
Commentary on Latimer & Stevens on Part-Whole-Perception

Abstract

The Latimer & Stevens (1997) target article on wholes, parts, and their perception is analyzed and extended on the basis of topology involved in the Lie transformation group theory of neuropsychology and the symmetric difference model for cognition.

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