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.