Chaos and meaning
Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought, and Reality from the Perspective of Complex Systems Science
http://www.amazon.com/Chaotic-Logic-Perspective-International-Engineerin...
Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought, and Reality from the Perspective of Complex Systems Science (IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering) (Hardcover) by Ben Goertzel
Book Description
Rhizomik project
The "Rhizomik initiative" claims to have "modelled a meaningful portion of the Semantic Web showing that it satisfies Complex Systems properties":
Chaos and the power of assemblies
Giuseppe Vitiello has been working with W. J. Freeman to relate the properties of many-body systems to cognition.
http://www.archive.org/details/Redwood_Center_2007_01_23_Giuseppe_Vitiello
Here is a paper on possible relationships between quantum theory, symmetry breaking, and chaotic classical Hamiltonians:
Wolfgang Wildgen's "Catastrophe theoretical models in semantics"
John Sowa writing on the Ontolog discussion list 2007 (http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2008-02/msg00085.html):
"René Thom, who founded catastrophe theory and received the Fields
Medal for his efforts, was firmly convinced that all areas of human
perception and cognition -- language, in particular -- depend on
features that are closely related to catastrophe theory.
Wolfgang Wildgen is a linguist who developed Thom's ideas on
catastrophe theory applied to of semantics. For various papers
and PowerPoint slides (in English, German, and French) see
