Traditional thinking, physical science, and the brain : an essay about a “Parallel-Systems Mind Model”

dc.contributor.authorGries, Werner Hugo
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Pretoria. Dept. of Physics
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-20T14:27:51Z
dc.date.available2011-05-20T14:27:51Z
dc.date.created2010-09-06
dc.date.issued2011-05-20T14:27:51Z
dc.descriptionThis is Essay 1 of the Collection of 'Essays on Cognitive Physical Science' in the repository UPSpace of the University of Pretoria.en_US
dc.descriptionThe main text of this essay starts with traditional sub-Saharan African thinking, and concludes with the author’s “Parallel-Systems Mind Model”. The Parallel-Systems Mind Model is one of the outcomes of the author’s research that is aimed at re-evaluating certain aspects of physical science from a cognitive-sciences-contextualised physical-science perspective, as well as at drawing conclusions for physical science teaching to a multi-cultural populace as in South Africa.
dc.descriptionThe Parallel-Systems Mind Model elaborated here is the author's first attempt of developing a vision of the human mind in which findings of the cognitive sciences are interpreted from a physicist's perspective. A perspective which is more accessible for physicists than is a typical cognitive-sciences approach to the enigma of mind.
dc.format.extent56 pages including Preface; Index and Appendixesen_US
dc.format.mediumPDFen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/16600
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Author
dc.rightsCopyright with the author, Creative Commons Licence held by the University.en_US
dc.subjectCognitive physical scienceen_US
dc.subjectParallel-Systems Mind Modelen_US
dc.subjectForebrain programmingen_US
dc.subjectConceptual systemen_US
dc.subjectMind levelsen_US
dc.subjectConsciousnessen_US
dc.subjectFree willen_US
dc.subjectTraditional thinkingen_US
dc.subjectFolk philosophiesen_US
dc.subjectProto thinkingen_US
dc.subjectVital forceen_US
dc.subjectWitchcraften_US
dc.subjectMystificationen_US
dc.subjectEmergence of scienceen_US
dc.subjectCategorisingen_US
dc.subjectCausalityen_US
dc.subjectTimeen_US
dc.subjectCollateral learningen_US
dc.titleTraditional thinking, physical science, and the brain : an essay about a “Parallel-Systems Mind Model”en_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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