| Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 7, Iss. 1, Jan, 2003, pp. 49-60 @2003 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences A Proper Metaphysics for Cognitive Performance Abstract: The general failure to individuate component causes in cognitive performance suggests the need for an alternative metaphysics. The metaphysics of control hierarchy theory accommodates the fact of self-organization in nature and the possibility that intentional actions are self-organized. One key assumption is that interactions among processes dominate their intrinsic dynamics. Scaling relations in response time variability motivate this assumption in cognitive performance. Keywords: intentionality, control hierarchy theory, self-organized criticality, 1/f scaling |