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Giorgio
Marchetti is a theorist of the mind. He took his university degree in foreign
languages and literatures at IULM, Milan, in 1989, under the supervision
of Silvio Ceccato. He collaborated with
the Laboratory for the Culture of the Artificial directed by
Massimo Negrotti at the University of Urbino, and was a
contract
professor at
the Faculty of
Sociology of the University of Urbino.
In 2002,
he founded the
www.mind-consciousness-language.com research net.
Currently, he
collaborates with the Open Research Unit for Business Leaders directed by Luca Magni at LUISS Business
School. He is review editor of
Frontiers in
Consciousness Research, editorial board member of the
International Journal of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and member of
IEEE
Task Force on Towards Human-like Intelligence
PUBLICATIONS
Books
and Journal Special Issues:
1993,
The mechanics of the mind,
Espansione, Roma.
1997,
La macchina estetica. Il percorso operativo nella costruzione
dell’atteggiamento estetico, Franco Angeli, Milano.
2000, (edited with D. Bertasio)
Fra ombre e autoritratti Il critico
presenta se stesso, Franco Angeli, Milano.
2003, (ed.)
Quel centimetro in meno, by Giuseppe
Gabriele, Foreword by Elia Boccara, Mimep-Docete, Pessano c. Bornago (Milano).
2010, (edited with
Andrew A. Fingelkurts and Alexander A. Fingelkurts)
Brain, Mind and Language Functional Architecture,The
Open Neuroimaging Journal, 4, pp. 26-92.
2010, Consciousness,
Attention and Meaning, Nova Science
Publishers, Hauppauge, NY.
2015, (edited with G. Benedetti and A. Alharbi).
Attention and Meaning. The Attentional Basis of
Meaning, Nova Science Publishers,
Hauppauge, NY.
2020, with Pier Celeste Marchetti,
Il visibile o l'invisibile? Dialoghi tra il serio e
il faceto sulla conoscenza, PlaceBook Publishing.
2021, with Pier Celeste Marchetti,
La grammatica è un'opinione? Breve riflessione sul
linguaggio naturale, PlaceBook Publishing.
2021, with Pier Celeste Marchetti,
Menzogna o verità. Il rovescio della medaglia, PlaceBook Publishing.
2023, with Luca Magni and Ahlam Alharbi,
Learnable
Theory & Analysis, LUISS University Press
2024, with Luca Magni and Ahlam Alharbi,
Learnable
Linguistics for Business Leaders, Youcanprint
Articles and
chapters in book:
1991, “Dalla linguistica all’estetica”, in Campi immaginabili,
1/2, 175-191.
1991, “Estetica e linguistica”, in Methodologia, 9, 84-108.
1994,
“A Mind Theory for the Human-Centredness Paradigm”, in AI &
Society, 8, 363-376 .
1994, “Il principio generativo nell’opera di Romolo Calciati”, in Poli
F. (ed.) Nuovi territori, IP, Pieve del Cairo.
1997, “Conoscenza e rappresentazione”, in Braga Illa F. (ed.)
Livelli di rappresentazione, QuattroVenti, Urbino.
1997, “Arte, Artista, Bello, Creatività,
Estetica: come li concepiscono gli artisti
contemporanei?”, in Bertasio D. (ed.) Professione Artista.
Un’indagine sociologica sulla creatività in pittura, Clueb, Bologna.
1997, “L’importanza che l’opera di Romolo Calciati riveste per uno
studioso della mente”, in Caprile L. (ed.) La Musa trasdotta. Romolo
Calciati. Opere 1975-1995. La.Musa. IMES - LCA- Università di Urbino.
1998, “Sociologia dell’arte e obiettività scientifica: un binomio non
impossibile”, in Bertasio D. (ed.) Immagini sociali dell’arte,
Dedalo, Bari.
1998, (with D. Bertasio) “Da Urbs Artis ’97”, in Bignardi M, Fiorillo
A. P., Bertasio D. and Marchetti G (eds.) Alfabeti. Narrazioni di segni,
Università degli Studi di Urbino - Ente Provinciale Per il Turismo di
Salerno, Salerno.
1999, “Sulla creatività”, in Studi Urbinati, anno LXIX, 847-884.
1999, “Mind design: some considerations in the light of the theory of the
artificial”, in Informatologia. Science and Technology, 32, 9-15.
2000, (with D. Bertasio) “Il critico contemporaneo: un’indagine
sociologica”, in Bertasio D. e Marchetti G. (eds) Fra ombre e
autoritratti Il critico presenta se stesso, Franco Angeli, Milano.
2000, “Il critico visto dal critico”, in Bertasio D. e Marchetti G. (eds)
Fra ombre e autoritratti Il critico presenta se stesso, Franco
Angeli, Milano.
2000,
“Observation Levels and Units of Time: A Critical Analysis of the
Main Assumption of
the Theory of the Artificial”, in AI & Society,
14, 331-347.
2000, (with D. Bertasio)
“For a Sociology of Art and Artists”, in
Culture: Newsletter of the Sociology of Culture Section of the American
Sociological Association, Vol. 15, N. 1, 14-17. 2002, (with D. Bertasio) "Invisibility revealed by visibility", in
Negrotti M. (ed.) Yearbook of the Artificial. Nature , Culture &
Technology, Vol.1, pag. 53-66.
2002, "The role attention plays in building our subjective experiences",
in The Journal of Non-Locality and Remote Mental Interactions, Vol. 1,
nr. 2,
http://www.emergentmind.org/marchettiI2.htm. 2002, (with D. Bertasio) "Specchio
delle mie brame, chi è la più bella del reame?", in
Porrello A. (ed.) L'industria culturale e il prodotto moda,
QuattroVenti, Urbino.
2006,
“A presentation of Attentional Semantics",
Cognitive Processing, Vol. 7, No. 3, 163-194
2009,
“Studies on time: a proposal on how to get out of
circularity",
Cognitive Processing, Vol. 10, No. 1, 7-40
2010,
(with Giulio Benedetti, Alexander A. Fingelkurts and Andrew A. Fingelkurts),
"Mind Operational Semantics
and Brain Operational Architectonics: a Putative Correspondence",
The Open Neuroimaging Journal,
4, 53-69
2010,
(with Andrew A. Fingelkurts and Alexander A. Fingelkurts),
"Brain, Mind
and Language Functional
Architectures",
The Open Neuroimaging Journal,
4, 26-29
2010,
"A New Perspective on Human
Consciousness" in
Salvati G. and Rabuano V. (eds.) Cognitive Psychology Perspectives, Nova Science Publishers,
Hauppauge, NY (pp. 63-115).
2012,
“Against the view that
consciousness and attention are fully dissociable",
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol.
3, Article 36, pp.
1-14.
2012,
"How consciousness builds the
subject through relating"
in
Jenkins R. J. and
Sullivan W. E. (eds.) Philosopy of
Mind, Nova Science Publishers,
Hauppauge, NY,
(37-69).
2014,
“Attention and working memory: two basic mechanisms
for constructing temporal experiences",
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol.
5,
Article 80, 1-15.
2015,
"Attentional Semantics: An
Overview" in Marchetti
G., Benedetti, G. and Alharbi, A. (eds.) Attention and Meaning. The
Attentional Basis of Meaning, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY,
(33-76).
2016,
"Attention and conscious experience"
in Alvarado L. (ed.)
Consciousness. Social Perspectives, Psychological Approaches and Current
Research, Nova Science Publishers, NY, (49-68).
2017, (with Giulio Benedetti),
"Précis of Attention and Meaning: The Attentional
Basis of Meaning",
Cognitive Semantics, 3, 121-126
2018,
“Consciousness: a unique way of processing
information",
Cognitive Processing,
19, 435-464,
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-018-0855-8
2022, "The
why of the phenomenal aspect of consciousness: Its main functions
and the mechanisms underpinning it"
Frontiers in Psychology, 13:913309, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.913309
2023,
"The
linguistic and cognitive relevance of prepositions"
in
Magni L., Marchetti, G and
and Alharbi A., Learnable
Theory & Analysis, LUISS University Press, Rome.
2023,
"The cognitive
operational meanings of prepositions and their leveraging in Learnable
analysis"
in
Magni L., Marchetti, G and
and Alharbi A., Learnable
Theory & Analysis, LUISS University Press, Rome.
2023, (with Luca magni and Ahlam
Alharbi),
"The attentional impact of
prepositions in metaphors: focusing and defocusing metaphors of
the Learnable"
in
Magni L., Marchetti, G and
and Alharbi A., Learnable
Theory & Analysis, LUISS University Press, Rome.
2023,
"Attention and the Conscious Experience of
Linguistic Meaning" in Li F. T. (ed.)
Handbook
of Cognitive Semantics Vol. 4, Brill, Leiden/Boston,
90-137.
2024, "The Self and
Conscious Experience", Frontiers in
Psychology,
15:1340943, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1340943
2024,
"Attention
as a constructive process of conscious experience"
in
Mari, H., Cavalheiro, J. C. and do Nascimento,
M. (eds.)
Interfaces entre linguagem e cognição.
Do
pensamento à ação,
Artesã,
Belo
Horizonte,
31-76.
Working Papers:
1994, “Analisi della congiunzione ‘e’”, in Working Papers della
Società di Cultura Metodologico-Operativa, 50, 1-14.
2001, “A
Theory of Consciousness”,
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles
giorgio.htm. 2003, “Foundations
of Attentional Semantics”,
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles
giorgio2.htm. 2005, “The
importance of non-attentional operations for Attentional Semantics”,
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles
giorgio3.htm.
2006, “A criticism of
Leonard Talmy's Cognitive Semantics”,
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles
giorgio4.htm.
2007,
“Time is energy. A hypothesis on the attentional
origin of the conscious experience of time,
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles
giorgio6.htm
2011,
“REL-AT: A
relational-attentional account of consciousness”,
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles
giorgio10.htm.
2025, "Emotion,
Consciousness, and Attention",
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles giorgio20.htm
Reviews and
Commentaries:
1989, review of Lingua e linguaggio nei testi, by H. Weinrich, Feltrinelli,
Milano (1988), in Methodologia, 6, 108-110.
1991, review of Défense et Illustration de l’Introspection. Au service de
la Gestion Mentale, by A. de La Garanderie, Édition du Centurion, Paris
(1989), in Methodologia, 8, 120-122.
1998, review of Saggio sul cervello e la mente, by A. Civita, Guerini e
Associati, Milano (1993), in Imes news, 0/98.
2003, commentary on How
Children Learn the Meanings of Words, by P. Bloom, The MIT Press,
Cambridge, Mass. (2000), in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm
2004, commentary on A Grammar of Attention. A Treatise on the Problem
of Meaning, by Todd Oakley (2003),
www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/oakley/aga.html,
in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm.
2004, commentary on
Semantica operativa. La semantica in termini di operazioni mentali. Parte
prima. Principi generali, metodologia e tecnica di analisi, by
Giulio Benedetti (2001),
www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles
benedetti1.htm,
in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm.
2005, commentary on Mind
Time. The Temporal Factor in Consciousness, by B. Libet, Harvard
University Press,
Cambridge, Mass. (2004), in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm
2006, commentary on Il tempo. Saggio di
psicologia sperimentale, by G. B. Vicario, il Mulino, Bologna (2005), in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm
2006, commentary on
The Structure of Time. language, meaning and temporal cognition
by Vyvyan Evans, John Benjamins Pub. Com., Amsterdam/Philadelphia (2004), in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm
2007, commentary on
The Neuroscience of Language. On Brain circuits of Words and
Serial Order by Friedemann Pulvermüller,
Cambridge University Press, New York (2002), in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm
2008, commentary on
The
Cognitive
Approach to Conscious Machines
by Pentti O.
Haikonen, Imprint Academic. Exeter, UK (2003)
in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm
2009, commentary on
The
Sense of Space
by David Morris, SUNY, Albany, NY (2004)
in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm
2010:Mind and
Brain Operations: Comment on «Natural World Physical, Brain Operational,
and Mind Phenomenal Space-Time», by Andrew A. Fingelkurts, Alexander
A. Fingelkurts and Carlos F. H. Neves, in Physics of Life Reviews,
Volume 7, Issue 2, 195-249, 2010. The commentary is published in:
Physics of Life Reviews, Volume 7, Issue 2, 254-255, 2010
2010:
commentary on
Attention and Recombinance. A
Cognitive-Semantic Investigation into Morphological Compositionality
in English by Martina Lampert, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main,
(2009)
in
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm
Translations:
1997, “Simmetria e rottura di simmetria nelle strutture naturali e
artificiali” by G. Caglioti, in Braga Illa F. (ed.) Livelli di
rappresentazione, QuattroVenti, Urbino.
1998, “L’arte e la società dei multimedia interattivi: lo shaping
socio-estetico dei multimedia” by L. Qvortrup, in Bertasio D. (ed.)
Immagini sociali dell’arte, Dedalo, Bari.
Various:
1994, L’iconema calciatiano: per la genesi di una nuova cultura
estetica, Ktema, Pieve del Cairo.
1998, (edited with M. Bignardi, A. P. Fiorillo and D. Bertasio)
Alfabeti. Narrazioni di segni, Università degli Studi di Urbino -
Ente Provinviale Per il Turismo di Salerno, Salerno.
2001, Costruzioni, Edizioni Pulcinoelefante,
Osnago.
2006, “Contemporaneo:
le ragioni di una distinzione”, in Bruno
Marcucci (ed.) Contemporaneo. 99 definizioni, Ernesto
Paleari Editore, Pesaro-Urbino.
2021, Operational
Lingusitics and Prepositions,
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/OL%20and%20Prepositions_Giorgio%20Marchetti.pdf
Literature Webinars (in
Italian Language):
(a) Rubrica "Poeti e romanzieri
divaganti"
Paul Valéry - Cahiers
(prima parte:
11 May 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibBtK1SkesM&t=218s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
Paul Valéry:
Cahiers
(seconda
parte: 19 May 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIDd6XsunSc&t=125s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
Thomas S.
Eliot: The Sacred Wood
(25 May 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVIOrbBVKdE&t=128s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
George Orwell:
Articoli pubblicati su Tribune
(6 July 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz85lPR3YG4&t=116s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
David H. Lawrence: Herman Melville's Moby
Dick, in Studies in Classic American Literature
(7 September 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvyj9PJLk_Q&t=246s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
Ignazio
Silone: Uscita di sicurezza
(28
September 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEH3rxxdvws&t=233s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
Giovanni
Papini; Un uomo finito
(26
October 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMuhwK6gVnI&t=327s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
(b) Rubrica "La fiaccola sotto
il dubbio"
Giuseppe
Prezzolini: Il linguaggio come causa d'errore
(10 November
2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XauPCwnDRtc&t=219s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
Oscar Wilde:
The Decay of Lying
(29 November
2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji28EhATrzE&t=11s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
Il Potere
della letteratura
(6 December
2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsprcULjv8c&t=152s&ab_channel=ArpaBirmana
Comprensibilità e incomprensibilità delle opere letterarie
(19 January
2023, Webinar Review Il trittico di Bosch, nr 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BCJB9wcfPU&t=479s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
L'utilità
dell'irrazionalità (in letteratura e altrove)
(21 March
2023, Webinar Review, Il trittico di Bosch, nr 7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7pzJ8d3ES4&t=694s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
Linguaggio,
racconto e conoscenza
(23 August
2023, Webinar Review, Il trittico di Bosch, nr.23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY9CH2F17xU&t=605s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
La suggestione
nell'arte: i giochi dell'attenzione nelle metafore preposizionali de "Lo
specchio che fugge" di Giovanni Papini
(20 March
2024, Webinar Review, Il trittico di Bosch, nr. 38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANteXLy-aYc&t=352s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
Lettura di
brani del "L'Iliade o il poema della forza" di Simone Weil
(25 April
2024, Webinar Review, Il trittico di Bosch, numero speciale)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acYqMuWLAoM&t=1276s
L'arte delle
emozioni
(8 May 2024,
Webinar Reeview, Il trittico di Bosch, nr. 44)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfbwx_TddhM&t=379s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
Il valore
della verità in letteratura
(31 July 2024,
Webina Review, Il trittico di Bosch, nr. 27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmvT701JxOE
Considerazioni
sullo stato della narrativa taliana
(24 August
2024, Webinar Review, Il trittico di Bosch, nr. 49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfzc7sWoWnk
Ti solleverò
dai dolori e dai tuoi sbalzi d'umore. La cura dell'arte
(13 February 2025, Webinar review,
Il trittico di Bosch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7bj6Mekef8&t=19s
La conversione dell'innominato (I Promessi
Sposi). Una riflessione sulla dinamica delle emozioni
(5 April 2025, Webinar review, Il trittico
di Bosch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-BVXzvK70&t=1175s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
Quando le emozioni del lettore
fanno parte della trama del romanzo ("dedalus" di James Joyce)
(17 April
2025, Il trittico di Bosch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIRXbWF9sSI&t=1688s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
Il potere
della parola rende ciechi. Le "prigioni semantiche" di Aldous Huxley
(25 April
2025, Il trittico di Bosch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8e_XMPhzN4&t=688s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
Paul Valéry e
le parole
(11 may 2025,
Il trittico di Bosch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vEwnBTp2Ec&t=351s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
(c) Various
Alcune
considerazioni sul rapporto Istat relativo alla produzione e alla
lettura di libri in Italia nel 2021
(8 February
2023, Webinar Review Il trittico di Bosch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQYPvdpU3RM&t=646s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
(con Guido
Cornia) Indagine sulla poesia (e sui poeti) 2023
(30 May 2023,
Webinar Review Il trittico di Bosch, nr. 16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiaDsGYLxaE&t=1404s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
La storia di
un italiano di Tunisia
(13 September
2023, Webinar Review, Il trittico di Bosch, nr. 24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-P81aVvOmw&t=169s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
(d) Review
La traversata
del deserto
di Marinette
Pendola, Arkadia, 2014
(26 September
2023, Webinar Review,Il trittico di Bosch, nr. 26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A66-Aq6RUTA&t=79s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
The Decline of
the Novel
di Joseph Bottum, St. Augustine's Press, 2019
(25 January
2024. Webinr Review, Il trittico di Bosch, nr. 34)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCVyUClVSyk&t=60s&ab_channel=Arpabirmana
La menzogna
delle verità: Commento al romanzo inedito "Il sonno della ragione" di
Guido Cornia (13 may 2024, Webinar review,
Il trittico di Bosch, nr. 45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcNmFFJM31M
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