Arthur S Iberall

Biographic Data

ID4863755
NAMEArthur S Iberall
GIVEN NAMESArthur S
FAMILY NAMEIberall
SIGNATUREIBERALL A S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Irvine
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX0

  • The Physics, Chemical Physics, and Biological Physics of the Origin of Life on Earth

    Arthur S IberallARTICLEEcological Psychology2001

    This article illustrates the possible application of homeokinetics to the constructive process of the origin of life. The homeokinetic strategy is to seek out cycles at all time scales in a system where they can be discovered (spectroscopy) and to show how interacting cyclic processes can account for historical emergence of new entities, many of which also are cyclic processes. The full story of emergence necessarily begins with cosmology, which …

  • What Makes Sammy-Samantha and Other Mammals Run? A First Round of Closure

    Arthur S IberallARTICLEEcological Psychology2000

    This article attempts to bring a first round of closure to an entire series of articles on command control (1960–1995). This contribution is of significance for the Gibsonian program (e.g., Iberall, 1995). This article attempts to complete a primitive physical foundation for that control process, for the basis of attention, action, and so-called purposeful or intentional movement or change in all complex systems, particularly mammalian and human.…

  • Nonlinear Dynamics From a Physical Point of View

    Arthur S IberallARTICLEEcological Psychology1997

    This commentary sketches some history of the use of nonlinear dynamics in homeokinetics and contrasts this physical approach, grounded in statistical mechanics and hydrodynamics, with more prominent mathematically driven approaches, especially as described by Abraham (1987), and some other groups

  • A Physical (Homeokinetic) Foundation for the Gibsonian Theory of Perception and Action

    Arthur S IberallARTICLEEcological Psychology1995

    Homeokinetics is a generalized thermodynamic approach to complex systems. It seeks to show that physical principles can account for the existence and operation of complex systems at any scale. It stresses that the underlying processes are physical and few. Indeed, one beauty of this approach is that it offers a natural, physical way to relate one scale to another. Here, homeokinetics particularly assumes all the morphologies of biology. Complex s…

  • Does Intention Have a Characteristic Fast Time Scale

    Arthur S IberallARTICLEEcological Psychology1992

    The homeokinetic approach to behavior (applied to humans, the approach is described in Iberall & McCulloch, 1969; and more generally in Soodak & Iberall, 1978) is extended in this article to argue that free will is exercised at a temporal scale of approximately 6 s. The homeokinetic theory of complex physical systems, including living systems, analyzes activity into component sets of oscillators, action modes, each with a characteristic time scal…

  • A Commentary on Kugler, Turvey, Schmidt, and Rosenblum's Ecological Approach to Motor Systems

    Arthur S IberallARTICLEEcological Psychology1990

    I argue that Kugler, Turvey, Schmidt, and Rosenblum's (1990) attempt to find adiabatic invariants is premature and describes several prior considerations that must be taken into account to properly understand a motor system. I maintain that Kugler et al. can and should be much more direct in taking the thermody- namic dissipative systems perspective on motor activity. For example, performance in a true comfort mode should be something that can be…