Imagination and Rigor

Pattern Discovery in the Crib of Procrustes.- Close Encounters With Far Ideas.- Remarks on the Semantics of “Information”.- Simulation Models of Organism Behavior: Some Lessons from Precybernetic and Cybernetic Approaches.- Caianiello and Neural Nets.- Computability, Computation, and the Real World.- Structure, Combinatorics, and Complexity of “Words”.- Quantum Field Theory and Renormalization Theory in the Early Scientific Activity of Eduardo R. Caianiello.- The Renormalization Group from Bogoliubov to Wilson.- Caianiello’s Maximal Acceleration. Recent Developments.- Modeling Single Neuron Activity in the Presence of Refractoriness: New Contributions to an Old Problem.- Cosmological Implications of Caianiello’s Quantum Geometry.- Imagination and Rigor: Their Interaction Along the Way to Measuring Fuzziness and Doing Other Strange Things.- Rational vs Reasonable.- Eduardo.