A physicist's model of mind
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Gries, Werner Hugo
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This is Essay 3 of the Collection of 'Essays on Cognitive Physical Science' in the repository UPSpace of the University of Pretoria.
Essay 3 is the author's first comprehensive description of a model of mind from a physicist's perspective which meets the minimum requirements for such a perspective, inter alia the requirement of a concrete specificity of the underlying physical structure and details. It therefore supersedes the Parallel-Systems Mind Model of Essay 1 (hdl.handle.net/2263/16600), which falls short of this requirement, although many of its features and implications remain valid.
Essay 3 is introduced by a discussion of what distinguishes the concept of 'understanding something' for a physicist from that for researchers in other disciplines. This is where the concept of 'levels of logic' (elaborated in Essay 2, hdl.handle.net/2263/43388) plays a decisive role. All further reasoning towards the author's model of mind is based on this physicist's notion of understanding.
Essay 3 is the author's first comprehensive description of a model of mind from a physicist's perspective which meets the minimum requirements for such a perspective, inter alia the requirement of a concrete specificity of the underlying physical structure and details. It therefore supersedes the Parallel-Systems Mind Model of Essay 1 (hdl.handle.net/2263/16600), which falls short of this requirement, although many of its features and implications remain valid.
Essay 3 is introduced by a discussion of what distinguishes the concept of 'understanding something' for a physicist from that for researchers in other disciplines. This is where the concept of 'levels of logic' (elaborated in Essay 2, hdl.handle.net/2263/43388) plays a decisive role. All further reasoning towards the author's model of mind is based on this physicist's notion of understanding.
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Physicist's model of mind, Physicist means by 'understanding', Modular Mental Structure Model, Levels of logic, Physical and mental modules, Least effort principle, Routing of learning-related signals, Private-paradigm modules, Generation of mind, Least mental stress principle, Complex-system behaviour of mind, Signal routing by tagging, Groupthink phenomenon
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Gries, WH 2015, 'A physicist's model of mind', Essays on Cognitive Physical Science, Essay 3, pp. 1-31.