We argue about a prototype, the brain, having as a brain model an Intranet-like
multicompartmental structure. A private INTRAnet is analogous to the public
INTERnet, but has linked compartments functioning within closed spatial limits, say
a school. We do not explain here either the selected electronic devices such as
routers, hubs and file servers, or the software used. In a school intranet, they connect compartments such
as a Library Computer Laboratory (LCL) and classrooms, now blackboxes with various
expertises. Now the school intranet is a simple model of a human brain engaged in higher intellectual
tasks, such as theorem creation and demonstration. As an information processor, the
brain integrates subsystems: protominds (1), that is, compartments of brain
machinery, brain operating systems (2), memories and transducers, and allows for the
emergence of single aimed parallel tasks.
The basics of the adopted structure refer to Minsky�s (1) A- and B-brains- and to
Block- Schacter�s (3,4) A- and P-consciousness.
2. The B-brain (right Hub(5)) is the "mind". Its duty is centered on the
A-brain endeavours, and manages its information traffic, excluding the external
world. By definition, the inner mental world is B-brain's task. Human beings show
not full, but partial conscioussnes of having consciousness, because the parallel
workings of the protominds are tractable only in part by B. The links are:
inner world <--> B-brain <--> A-brain <--> outer world.
2. P-(Phenomenal) Consciousness constructs
mental images or mental similitudes out of subsymbolic information coming from the
perceptions. It has to do with inner experiences, like the one a little girl has as
she climbs to a big swing and begins to propel herself, understanding their parents
loud approval. Or when touching an open flame with the finger. P-consciousness
emerges mostly as the access of a large number of body-controls, managing the alarm
set-points of an overall alarm-proved homeostatic state (9).
We have mentioned left and right hubs, according to Weinstein's graphic of a File
Server Model for a school-wide Intranet (5). The listed electronic subsystems are:
1). An "Internet Service Provider": it means here the perceptual world (10).
2). A "Router": here one is reminded of the main site for the Alarm Operators,
aware for filtered objects, facts and properties, that is, exhibiting o-,f-, and
p-awareness (11), sensible as well to different brain moods or electroencephalic (EEG) waves. So there
are many inner protocols, not just one as in standard Intranets. The traffic
allows for inputs with sensory transductors and outputs with neuron-muscle
complementation. The router satisfies a part of the Intranet's Operating System,
and the filters for the Alarm Operators are here considered as belonging to our
A-conscious brain Operating System.
3). A first "Hub" with a default connection to the router, managing the links among
the active classrooms: the rooms are the A-brain protominds involved in NDC (7,8,12). One set of compartments, associated with every one of the aspects
of a "higher" problem NDC (theorem creation and demonstration) presented by the
"alarm" operators, could be:
3.1) a first large room (or three smaller ones) with "preparation" experts (7),
with Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) abilities, referring to old experiences with
already-prepared answers to problems, including in the same room particular
expertises such as
3.1.1) negative-mood experiences helping to avoid future disasters, inhibitory
components of "preparation" or case-based reasoning (CBR-) functions;
3.1.2) positive-mood case-based memories assisting in the construction of a
positive solution to the problem, excitatory components (CBR+); and
3.1.3) an overall abstract version without emotional influence, that is, strictly
rational and logic (CBRo); a cold and emotion-lacking access and processing to all
kinds of cases related to the new problem;
3.2) a second room (protomind) dedicated to deliberative, combinatorial
and creative abilities (7), "deliberation" or memory-free combinatory cognition
functions, where memory is not needed; and
3.3) a third room for emotional intelligence expertise (13), used in NDC.
4). A second "Hub": here one may recognize the B-brain component, both A- and
P-conscious. It nests the remaining part of the A-conscious B-brain Operating
System. It has a default connection to the first Hub and four links
4.1) To a "File Server" connecting related files: in the brain it is the seat for
B-brain abilities and includes
4.1.1) the core of the Access-Consciousness brain Operating System, whose tasks are to
provide accesses between the Classrooms and the File Server,
so as to help with the LCL tasks.
4.1.2) the long-term memories and access to the LCL coded registry.
4.2) To a first division of the LCL: it nests B-brain's P-consciousness.
The LCL concentrates -loosely speaking- all the "homeostatic-sensor
controls" (9) of the active rooms feelings. From this concentration the
LCL should be in the condition to transduce the conscious feelings
and experiences which - so to say - fill the net with an overall experience of
alertness and progressive task-accomplishment or failure.
4.3) To a second division of same: it nests B-brain-Preconscious (14), the waiting
room previous to P-consciousness, for half-way feelings and experiences.
4.4) To the last division: it saves the Unconscious (14), where B-brain control
functions only scratch the surface of hidden parallel NDC.
2) BRAIN FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
The thermodynamics of this blackbox compartmental school-Intranet circuit is based on Kirchhoff
electronic equilibria applied to linked nodes. This differs considerably from natural
brain biothermodynamic non-linear non-equilibrium phase transition processes.
Generation after generation, most brain self-organised evolution may be thermodynamically downhill in a scale not entirely microscopical, in a group of protominds scale. (Entropy is growing with fewer degrees of freedom in such a complex system)(15). In the
evolved brain, the main darwinian selector is the potentiality of the species to
minimize the high priority energy demands (von Baer-Mayr(15) law) maintaining
accessed and linked mental capabilities. The evolving arrow seems to aim towards such complex
compartmental (16) evolutionary phase transitions - from less linked to more linked - so as to increase its functional
and task ranges, with relatively low energy requisites.
When solving problems, the transductions between subsymbolic, symbolic and again
subsymbolic signals, demand energy (7) and need at least one scaffold (9) to move uphill.
Applying Hopfield's equations (17), the protominds operating system involved in
solving the problem on hand, after the mentioned initial uphill transition,
could account for a final energetic decay, with a decrease of large number of initial
degrees of freedom.
Neurons are slow and the alarm signals are much faster. This fact (1)
appears to be persistently selecting (14). Natural selection gives priority to
economic solutions: brain selects bypasses with more velocity but less precision (13).
A generalized Le Chatelier principle, extended to non-linear situations, replacing
equilibria by phase transitions, appears as a theoretical reductionist help with
multiple applications (17).
Now we mention a jazz-band model for the tentative and temporary leadership of one
of the multiple protominds, during the NDC, as well as a brain biothermodynamical
model of the voting process of said protominds (17).
Within a given NDC one finds various energetic levels involved (7,17).
All these generally simple facts, when explained one after the other, produce
notwithstanding a chaotic EEG. From this chaos the authors see the emergence of a
reductionist law, whose first draft may be stated as follows:
Biothermodynamics, ruled by the von Baer-Mayr reduction, gives a quite simple
vision of the workings of mind as a control tool and alarm-situations manager.
The emotional intelligence makes clear where the NDC set-points are, because the
magnitude of actual feelings measures the unbalance between the set-points and the
controlled behaviors under adjustment by the NDC. P-consciousness is the result of
all the controls trying to yield homeostasis, surveying the presence of alarms, as a kind of virtual
supercontrol (17).
The model may enlighten some up-to-date topics, like what happens with the superposition of strong
attention and alpha-EEG-wave moods.
-------
(1) Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster, New York (1988)
(2) Johnson-Laird, P-The Computer and the Mind, Harvard Univ.Press (1988)
(3) Block, Ned - On a Confusion about a Function..., Cambridge Univ.Press(1994)
(4) Schacter, D -in H.Roedinger et al (ed.) Varieties of Memory...,Erlbaum (1989)
(5) Weinstein, Peter - Intranets. Technology and Learning, 17,2,50 (1996)
(6) Wiener, Norbert- Cybernetics (1948), The Human Use of Human Beings (1954)
(7) Newell, A- Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1988)
(8) Beer, Randall - Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, Academic Press (1991)
(9) Cohen, J and I Stewart - The Collapse of Chaos, Viking, New York (1994),
(10) Uexkull, Jakob von - The Theory of Meaning,Semiotica 42(1),1982,Mouton Pub.
(11) Dretske, Fred - The mind's awareness of itself - www on line (1997)
(12) Ritter, F - Soar-faq - www on line (G8)- (1996)
(13) Goleman, David- Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books (1996)
(14) Freud, Sigmund - Los Textos Fundamentales del Psicoanalisis, Altaya (1993)
(15) Mayr A - The Growth of Biological Thought, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1982)
(16) Gell-Mann, Murray, in J. Brockman (ed.) La Tercera Cultura, Tusquets (1996)
(17) Barral, R H and C H von der Becke- Biotermodinamica del Cerebro, U N de Lujan (1997),
Next
1). An "Internet Service Provider": it means here the perceptual world (10).
2). A "Router": here one is reminded of the main site for the Alarm Operators,
aware for filtered objects, facts and properties, that is, exhibiting o-,f-, and
p-awareness (11), sensible as well to different brain moods or electroencephalic (EEG) waves. So there
are many inner protocols, not just one as in standard Intranets. The traffic
allows for inputs with sensory transductors and outputs with neuron-muscle
complementation. The router satisfies a part of the Intranet's Operating System,
and the filters for the Alarm Operators are here considered as belonging to our
A-conscious brain Operating System.
3). A first "Hub" with a default connection to the router, managing the links among
the active classrooms: the rooms are the A-brain protominds involved in NDC (7,8,12). One set of compartments, associated with every one of the aspects
of a "higher" problem NDC (theorem creation and demonstration) presented by the
"alarm" operators, could be:
3.1) a first large room (or three smaller ones) with "preparation" experts (7),
with Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) abilities, referring to old experiences with
already-prepared answers to problems, including in the same room particular
expertises such as
3.1.1) negative-mood experiences helping to avoid future disasters, inhibitory
components of "preparation" or case-based reasoning (CBR-) functions;
3.1.2) positive-mood case-based memories assisting in the construction of a
positive solution to the problem, excitatory components (CBR+); and
3.1.3) an overall abstract version without emotional influence, that is, strictly
rational and logic (CBRo); a cold and emotion-lacking access and processing to all
kinds of cases related to the new problem;
3.2) a second room (protomind) dedicated to deliberative, combinatorial
and creative abilities (7), "deliberation" or memory-free combinatory cognition
functions, where memory is not needed; and
3.3) a third room for emotional intelligence expertise (13), used in NDC.
4). A second "Hub": here one may recognize the B-brain component, both A- and
P-conscious. It nests the remaining part of the A-conscious B-brain Operating
System. It has a default connection to the first Hub and four links
4.1) To a "File Server" connecting related files: in the brain it is the seat for
B-brain abilities and includes
4.1.1) the core of the Access-Consciousness brain Operating System, whose tasks are to
provide accesses between the Classrooms and the File Server,
so as to help with the LCL tasks.
4.1.2) the long-term memories and access to the LCL coded registry.
4.2) To a first division of the LCL: it nests B-brain's P-consciousness.
The LCL concentrates -loosely speaking- all the "homeostatic-sensor
controls" (9) of the active rooms feelings. From this concentration the
LCL should be in the condition to transduce the conscious feelings
and experiences which - so to say - fill the net with an overall experience of
alertness and progressive task-accomplishment or failure.
4.3) To a second division of same: it nests B-brain-Preconscious (14), the waiting
room previous to P-consciousness, for half-way feelings and experiences.
4.4) To the last division: it saves the Unconscious (14), where B-brain control
functions only scratch the surface of hidden parallel NDC.
2) BRAIN FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
The thermodynamics of this blackbox compartmental school-Intranet circuit is based on Kirchhoff
electronic equilibria applied to linked nodes. This differs considerably from natural
brain biothermodynamic non-linear non-equilibrium phase transition processes.
Generation after generation, most brain self-organised evolution may be thermodynamically downhill in a scale not entirely microscopical, in a group of protominds scale. (Entropy is growing with fewer degrees of freedom in such a complex system)(15). In the
evolved brain, the main darwinian selector is the potentiality of the species to
minimize the high priority energy demands (von Baer-Mayr(15) law) maintaining
accessed and linked mental capabilities. The evolving arrow seems to aim towards such complex
compartmental (16) evolutionary phase transitions - from less linked to more linked - so as to increase its functional
and task ranges, with relatively low energy requisites.
When solving problems, the transductions between subsymbolic, symbolic and again
subsymbolic signals, demand energy (7) and need at least one scaffold (9) to move uphill.
Applying Hopfield's equations (17), the protominds operating system involved in
solving the problem on hand, after the mentioned initial uphill transition,
could account for a final energetic decay, with a decrease of large number of initial
degrees of freedom.
Neurons are slow and the alarm signals are much faster. This fact (1)
appears to be persistently selecting (14). Natural selection gives priority to
economic solutions: brain selects bypasses with more velocity but less precision (13).
A generalized Le Chatelier principle, extended to non-linear situations, replacing
equilibria by phase transitions, appears as a theoretical reductionist help with
multiple applications (17).
Now we mention a jazz-band model for the tentative and temporary leadership of one
of the multiple protominds, during the NDC, as well as a brain biothermodynamical
model of the voting process of said protominds (17).
Within a given NDC one finds various energetic levels involved (7,17).
All these generally simple facts, when explained one after the other, produce
notwithstanding a chaotic EEG. From this chaos the authors see the emergence of a
reductionist law, whose first draft may be stated as follows:
Biothermodynamics, ruled by the von Baer-Mayr reduction, gives a quite simple
vision of the workings of mind as a control tool and alarm-situations manager.
The emotional intelligence makes clear where the NDC set-points are, because the
magnitude of actual feelings measures the unbalance between the set-points and the
controlled behaviors under adjustment by the NDC. P-consciousness is the result of
all the controls trying to yield homeostasis, surveying the presence of alarms, as a kind of virtual
supercontrol (17).
The model may enlighten some up-to-date topics, like what happens with the superposition of strong
attention and alpha-EEG-wave moods.
-------
(1) Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster, New York (1988)
(2) Johnson-Laird, P-The Computer and the Mind, Harvard Univ.Press (1988)
(3) Block, Ned - On a Confusion about a Function..., Cambridge Univ.Press(1994)
(4) Schacter, D -in H.Roedinger et al (ed.) Varieties of Memory...,Erlbaum (1989)
(5) Weinstein, Peter - Intranets. Technology and Learning, 17,2,50 (1996)
(6) Wiener, Norbert- Cybernetics (1948), The Human Use of Human Beings (1954)
(7) Newell, A- Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1988)
(8) Beer, Randall - Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, Academic Press (1991)
(9) Cohen, J and I Stewart - The Collapse of Chaos, Viking, New York (1994),
(10) Uexkull, Jakob von - The Theory of Meaning,Semiotica 42(1),1982,Mouton Pub.
(11) Dretske, Fred - The mind's awareness of itself - www on line (1997)
(12) Ritter, F - Soar-faq - www on line (G8)- (1996)
(13) Goleman, David- Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books (1996)
(14) Freud, Sigmund - Los Textos Fundamentales del Psicoanalisis, Altaya (1993)
(15) Mayr A - The Growth of Biological Thought, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1982)
(16) Gell-Mann, Murray, in J. Brockman (ed.) La Tercera Cultura, Tusquets (1996)
(17) Barral, R H and C H von der Becke- Biotermodinamica del Cerebro, U N de Lujan (1997),
Next
2). A "Router": here one is reminded of the main site for the Alarm Operators,
aware for filtered objects, facts and properties, that is, exhibiting o-,f-, and
p-awareness (11), sensible as well to different brain moods or electroencephalic (EEG) waves. So there
are many inner protocols, not just one as in standard Intranets. The traffic
allows for inputs with sensory transductors and outputs with neuron-muscle
complementation. The router satisfies a part of the Intranet's Operating System,
and the filters for the Alarm Operators are here considered as belonging to our
A-conscious brain Operating System.
3). A first "Hub" with a default connection to the router, managing the links among
the active classrooms: the rooms are the A-brain protominds involved in NDC (7,8,12). One set of compartments, associated with every one of the aspects
of a "higher" problem NDC (theorem creation and demonstration) presented by the
"alarm" operators, could be:
3.1) a first large room (or three smaller ones) with "preparation" experts (7),
with Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) abilities, referring to old experiences with
already-prepared answers to problems, including in the same room particular
expertises such as
3.1.1) negative-mood experiences helping to avoid future disasters, inhibitory
components of "preparation" or case-based reasoning (CBR-) functions;
3.1.2) positive-mood case-based memories assisting in the construction of a
positive solution to the problem, excitatory components (CBR+); and
3.1.3) an overall abstract version without emotional influence, that is, strictly
rational and logic (CBRo); a cold and emotion-lacking access and processing to all
kinds of cases related to the new problem;
3.2) a second room (protomind) dedicated to deliberative, combinatorial
and creative abilities (7), "deliberation" or memory-free combinatory cognition
functions, where memory is not needed; and
3.3) a third room for emotional intelligence expertise (13), used in NDC.
4). A second "Hub": here one may recognize the B-brain component, both A- and
P-conscious. It nests the remaining part of the A-conscious B-brain Operating
System. It has a default connection to the first Hub and four links
4.1) To a "File Server" connecting related files: in the brain it is the seat for
B-brain abilities and includes
4.1.1) the core of the Access-Consciousness brain Operating System, whose tasks are to
provide accesses between the Classrooms and the File Server,
so as to help with the LCL tasks.
4.1.2) the long-term memories and access to the LCL coded registry.
4.2) To a first division of the LCL: it nests B-brain's P-consciousness.
The LCL concentrates -loosely speaking- all the "homeostatic-sensor
controls" (9) of the active rooms feelings. From this concentration the
LCL should be in the condition to transduce the conscious feelings
and experiences which - so to say - fill the net with an overall experience of
alertness and progressive task-accomplishment or failure.
4.3) To a second division of same: it nests B-brain-Preconscious (14), the waiting
room previous to P-consciousness, for half-way feelings and experiences.
4.4) To the last division: it saves the Unconscious (14), where B-brain control
functions only scratch the surface of hidden parallel NDC.
2) BRAIN FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
The thermodynamics of this blackbox compartmental school-Intranet circuit is based on Kirchhoff
electronic equilibria applied to linked nodes. This differs considerably from natural
brain biothermodynamic non-linear non-equilibrium phase transition processes.
Generation after generation, most brain self-organised evolution may be thermodynamically downhill in a scale not entirely microscopical, in a group of protominds scale. (Entropy is growing with fewer degrees of freedom in such a complex system)(15). In the
evolved brain, the main darwinian selector is the potentiality of the species to
minimize the high priority energy demands (von Baer-Mayr(15) law) maintaining
accessed and linked mental capabilities. The evolving arrow seems to aim towards such complex
compartmental (16) evolutionary phase transitions - from less linked to more linked - so as to increase its functional
and task ranges, with relatively low energy requisites.
When solving problems, the transductions between subsymbolic, symbolic and again
subsymbolic signals, demand energy (7) and need at least one scaffold (9) to move uphill.
Applying Hopfield's equations (17), the protominds operating system involved in
solving the problem on hand, after the mentioned initial uphill transition,
could account for a final energetic decay, with a decrease of large number of initial
degrees of freedom.
Neurons are slow and the alarm signals are much faster. This fact (1)
appears to be persistently selecting (14). Natural selection gives priority to
economic solutions: brain selects bypasses with more velocity but less precision (13).
A generalized Le Chatelier principle, extended to non-linear situations, replacing
equilibria by phase transitions, appears as a theoretical reductionist help with
multiple applications (17).
Now we mention a jazz-band model for the tentative and temporary leadership of one
of the multiple protominds, during the NDC, as well as a brain biothermodynamical
model of the voting process of said protominds (17).
Within a given NDC one finds various energetic levels involved (7,17).
All these generally simple facts, when explained one after the other, produce
notwithstanding a chaotic EEG. From this chaos the authors see the emergence of a
reductionist law, whose first draft may be stated as follows:
Biothermodynamics, ruled by the von Baer-Mayr reduction, gives a quite simple
vision of the workings of mind as a control tool and alarm-situations manager.
The emotional intelligence makes clear where the NDC set-points are, because the
magnitude of actual feelings measures the unbalance between the set-points and the
controlled behaviors under adjustment by the NDC. P-consciousness is the result of
all the controls trying to yield homeostasis, surveying the presence of alarms, as a kind of virtual
supercontrol (17).
The model may enlighten some up-to-date topics, like what happens with the superposition of strong
attention and alpha-EEG-wave moods.
-------
(1) Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster, New York (1988)
(2) Johnson-Laird, P-The Computer and the Mind, Harvard Univ.Press (1988)
(3) Block, Ned - On a Confusion about a Function..., Cambridge Univ.Press(1994)
(4) Schacter, D -in H.Roedinger et al (ed.) Varieties of Memory...,Erlbaum (1989)
(5) Weinstein, Peter - Intranets. Technology and Learning, 17,2,50 (1996)
(6) Wiener, Norbert- Cybernetics (1948), The Human Use of Human Beings (1954)
(7) Newell, A- Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1988)
(8) Beer, Randall - Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, Academic Press (1991)
(9) Cohen, J and I Stewart - The Collapse of Chaos, Viking, New York (1994),
(10) Uexkull, Jakob von - The Theory of Meaning,Semiotica 42(1),1982,Mouton Pub.
(11) Dretske, Fred - The mind's awareness of itself - www on line (1997)
(12) Ritter, F - Soar-faq - www on line (G8)- (1996)
(13) Goleman, David- Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books (1996)
(14) Freud, Sigmund - Los Textos Fundamentales del Psicoanalisis, Altaya (1993)
(15) Mayr A - The Growth of Biological Thought, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1982)
(16) Gell-Mann, Murray, in J. Brockman (ed.) La Tercera Cultura, Tusquets (1996)
(17) Barral, R H and C H von der Becke- Biotermodinamica del Cerebro, U N de Lujan (1997),
Next
4). A second "Hub": here one may recognize the B-brain component, both A- and
P-conscious. It nests the remaining part of the A-conscious B-brain Operating
System. It has a default connection to the first Hub and four links
4.1) To a "File Server" connecting related files: in the brain it is the seat for
B-brain abilities and includes
4.1.1) the core of the Access-Consciousness brain Operating System, whose tasks are to
provide accesses between the Classrooms and the File Server,
so as to help with the LCL tasks.
4.1.2) the long-term memories and access to the LCL coded registry.
4.2) To a first division of the LCL: it nests B-brain's P-consciousness.
The LCL concentrates -loosely speaking- all the "homeostatic-sensor
controls" (9) of the active rooms feelings. From this concentration the
LCL should be in the condition to transduce the conscious feelings
and experiences which - so to say - fill the net with an overall experience of
alertness and progressive task-accomplishment or failure.
4.3) To a second division of same: it nests B-brain-Preconscious (14), the waiting
room previous to P-consciousness, for half-way feelings and experiences.
4.4) To the last division: it saves the Unconscious (14), where B-brain control
functions only scratch the surface of hidden parallel NDC.
2) BRAIN FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
The thermodynamics of this blackbox compartmental school-Intranet circuit is based on Kirchhoff
electronic equilibria applied to linked nodes. This differs considerably from natural
brain biothermodynamic non-linear non-equilibrium phase transition processes.
Generation after generation, most brain self-organised evolution may be thermodynamically downhill in a scale not entirely microscopical, in a group of protominds scale. (Entropy is growing with fewer degrees of freedom in such a complex system)(15). In the
evolved brain, the main darwinian selector is the potentiality of the species to
minimize the high priority energy demands (von Baer-Mayr(15) law) maintaining
accessed and linked mental capabilities. The evolving arrow seems to aim towards such complex
compartmental (16) evolutionary phase transitions - from less linked to more linked - so as to increase its functional
and task ranges, with relatively low energy requisites.
When solving problems, the transductions between subsymbolic, symbolic and again
subsymbolic signals, demand energy (7) and need at least one scaffold (9) to move uphill.
Applying Hopfield's equations (17), the protominds operating system involved in
solving the problem on hand, after the mentioned initial uphill transition,
could account for a final energetic decay, with a decrease of large number of initial
degrees of freedom.
Neurons are slow and the alarm signals are much faster. This fact (1)
appears to be persistently selecting (14). Natural selection gives priority to
economic solutions: brain selects bypasses with more velocity but less precision (13).
A generalized Le Chatelier principle, extended to non-linear situations, replacing
equilibria by phase transitions, appears as a theoretical reductionist help with
multiple applications (17).
Now we mention a jazz-band model for the tentative and temporary leadership of one
of the multiple protominds, during the NDC, as well as a brain biothermodynamical
model of the voting process of said protominds (17).
Within a given NDC one finds various energetic levels involved (7,17).
All these generally simple facts, when explained one after the other, produce
notwithstanding a chaotic EEG. From this chaos the authors see the emergence of a
reductionist law, whose first draft may be stated as follows:
Biothermodynamics, ruled by the von Baer-Mayr reduction, gives a quite simple
vision of the workings of mind as a control tool and alarm-situations manager.
The emotional intelligence makes clear where the NDC set-points are, because the
magnitude of actual feelings measures the unbalance between the set-points and the
controlled behaviors under adjustment by the NDC. P-consciousness is the result of
all the controls trying to yield homeostasis, surveying the presence of alarms, as a kind of virtual
supercontrol (17).
The model may enlighten some up-to-date topics, like what happens with the superposition of strong
attention and alpha-EEG-wave moods.
-------
(1) Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster, New York (1988)
(2) Johnson-Laird, P-The Computer and the Mind, Harvard Univ.Press (1988)
(3) Block, Ned - On a Confusion about a Function..., Cambridge Univ.Press(1994)
(4) Schacter, D -in H.Roedinger et al (ed.) Varieties of Memory...,Erlbaum (1989)
(5) Weinstein, Peter - Intranets. Technology and Learning, 17,2,50 (1996)
(6) Wiener, Norbert- Cybernetics (1948), The Human Use of Human Beings (1954)
(7) Newell, A- Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1988)
(8) Beer, Randall - Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, Academic Press (1991)
(9) Cohen, J and I Stewart - The Collapse of Chaos, Viking, New York (1994),
(10) Uexkull, Jakob von - The Theory of Meaning,Semiotica 42(1),1982,Mouton Pub.
(11) Dretske, Fred - The mind's awareness of itself - www on line (1997)
(12) Ritter, F - Soar-faq - www on line (G8)- (1996)
(13) Goleman, David- Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books (1996)
(14) Freud, Sigmund - Los Textos Fundamentales del Psicoanalisis, Altaya (1993)
(15) Mayr A - The Growth of Biological Thought, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1982)
(16) Gell-Mann, Murray, in J. Brockman (ed.) La Tercera Cultura, Tusquets (1996)
(17) Barral, R H and C H von der Becke- Biotermodinamica del Cerebro, U N de Lujan (1997),
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2) BRAIN FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
The thermodynamics of this blackbox compartmental school-Intranet circuit is based on Kirchhoff
electronic equilibria applied to linked nodes. This differs considerably from natural
brain biothermodynamic non-linear non-equilibrium phase transition processes.
Generation after generation, most brain self-organised evolution may be thermodynamically downhill in a scale not entirely microscopical, in a group of protominds scale. (Entropy is growing with fewer degrees of freedom in such a complex system)(15). In the
evolved brain, the main darwinian selector is the potentiality of the species to
minimize the high priority energy demands (von Baer-Mayr(15) law) maintaining
accessed and linked mental capabilities. The evolving arrow seems to aim towards such complex
compartmental (16) evolutionary phase transitions - from less linked to more linked - so as to increase its functional
and task ranges, with relatively low energy requisites.
When solving problems, the transductions between subsymbolic, symbolic and again
subsymbolic signals, demand energy (7) and need at least one scaffold (9) to move uphill.
Applying Hopfield's equations (17), the protominds operating system involved in
solving the problem on hand, after the mentioned initial uphill transition,
could account for a final energetic decay, with a decrease of large number of initial
degrees of freedom.
Neurons are slow and the alarm signals are much faster. This fact (1)
appears to be persistently selecting (14). Natural selection gives priority to
economic solutions: brain selects bypasses with more velocity but less precision (13).
A generalized Le Chatelier principle, extended to non-linear situations, replacing
equilibria by phase transitions, appears as a theoretical reductionist help with
multiple applications (17).
Now we mention a jazz-band model for the tentative and temporary leadership of one
of the multiple protominds, during the NDC, as well as a brain biothermodynamical
model of the voting process of said protominds (17).
Within a given NDC one finds various energetic levels involved (7,17).
All these generally simple facts, when explained one after the other, produce
notwithstanding a chaotic EEG. From this chaos the authors see the emergence of a
reductionist law, whose first draft may be stated as follows:
Biothermodynamics, ruled by the von Baer-Mayr reduction, gives a quite simple
vision of the workings of mind as a control tool and alarm-situations manager.
The emotional intelligence makes clear where the NDC set-points are, because the
magnitude of actual feelings measures the unbalance between the set-points and the
controlled behaviors under adjustment by the NDC. P-consciousness is the result of
all the controls trying to yield homeostasis, surveying the presence of alarms, as a kind of virtual
supercontrol (17).
The model may enlighten some up-to-date topics, like what happens with the superposition of strong
attention and alpha-EEG-wave moods.
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(1) Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster, New York (1988)
(2) Johnson-Laird, P-The Computer and the Mind, Harvard Univ.Press (1988)
(3) Block, Ned - On a Confusion about a Function..., Cambridge Univ.Press(1994)
(4) Schacter, D -in H.Roedinger et al (ed.) Varieties of Memory...,Erlbaum (1989)
(5) Weinstein, Peter - Intranets. Technology and Learning, 17,2,50 (1996)
(6) Wiener, Norbert- Cybernetics (1948), The Human Use of Human Beings (1954)
(7) Newell, A- Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1988)
(8) Beer, Randall - Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, Academic Press (1991)
(9) Cohen, J and I Stewart - The Collapse of Chaos, Viking, New York (1994),
(10) Uexkull, Jakob von - The Theory of Meaning,Semiotica 42(1),1982,Mouton Pub.
(11) Dretske, Fred - The mind's awareness of itself - www on line (1997)
(12) Ritter, F - Soar-faq - www on line (G8)- (1996)
(13) Goleman, David- Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books (1996)
(14) Freud, Sigmund - Los Textos Fundamentales del Psicoanalisis, Altaya (1993)
(15) Mayr A - The Growth of Biological Thought, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1982)
(16) Gell-Mann, Murray, in J. Brockman (ed.) La Tercera Cultura, Tusquets (1996)
(17) Barral, R H and C H von der Becke- Biotermodinamica del Cerebro, U N de Lujan (1997),
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The thermodynamics of this blackbox compartmental school-Intranet circuit is based on Kirchhoff
electronic equilibria applied to linked nodes. This differs considerably from natural
brain biothermodynamic non-linear non-equilibrium phase transition processes.
Generation after generation, most brain self-organised evolution may be thermodynamically downhill in a scale not entirely microscopical, in a group of protominds scale. (Entropy is growing with fewer degrees of freedom in such a complex system)(15). In the
evolved brain, the main darwinian selector is the potentiality of the species to
minimize the high priority energy demands (von Baer-Mayr(15) law) maintaining
accessed and linked mental capabilities. The evolving arrow seems to aim towards such complex
compartmental (16) evolutionary phase transitions - from less linked to more linked - so as to increase its functional
and task ranges, with relatively low energy requisites.
When solving problems, the transductions between subsymbolic, symbolic and again
subsymbolic signals, demand energy (7) and need at least one scaffold (9) to move uphill.
Applying Hopfield's equations (17), the protominds operating system involved in
solving the problem on hand, after the mentioned initial uphill transition,
could account for a final energetic decay, with a decrease of large number of initial
degrees of freedom.
Neurons are slow and the alarm signals are much faster. This fact (1)
appears to be persistently selecting (14). Natural selection gives priority to
economic solutions: brain selects bypasses with more velocity but less precision (13).
A generalized Le Chatelier principle, extended to non-linear situations, replacing
equilibria by phase transitions, appears as a theoretical reductionist help with
multiple applications (17).
Now we mention a jazz-band model for the tentative and temporary leadership of one
of the multiple protominds, during the NDC, as well as a brain biothermodynamical
model of the voting process of said protominds (17).
Within a given NDC one finds various energetic levels involved (7,17).
All these generally simple facts, when explained one after the other, produce
notwithstanding a chaotic EEG. From this chaos the authors see the emergence of a
reductionist law, whose first draft may be stated as follows:
Biothermodynamics, ruled by the von Baer-Mayr reduction, gives a quite simple
vision of the workings of mind as a control tool and alarm-situations manager.
The emotional intelligence makes clear where the NDC set-points are, because the
magnitude of actual feelings measures the unbalance between the set-points and the
controlled behaviors under adjustment by the NDC. P-consciousness is the result of
all the controls trying to yield homeostasis, surveying the presence of alarms, as a kind of virtual
supercontrol (17).
The model may enlighten some up-to-date topics, like what happens with the superposition of strong
attention and alpha-EEG-wave moods.
-------
(1) Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster, New York (1988)
(2) Johnson-Laird, P-The Computer and the Mind, Harvard Univ.Press (1988)
(3) Block, Ned - On a Confusion about a Function..., Cambridge Univ.Press(1994)
(4) Schacter, D -in H.Roedinger et al (ed.) Varieties of Memory...,Erlbaum (1989)
(5) Weinstein, Peter - Intranets. Technology and Learning, 17,2,50 (1996)
(6) Wiener, Norbert- Cybernetics (1948), The Human Use of Human Beings (1954)
(7) Newell, A- Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1988)
(8) Beer, Randall - Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, Academic Press (1991)
(9) Cohen, J and I Stewart - The Collapse of Chaos, Viking, New York (1994),
(10) Uexkull, Jakob von - The Theory of Meaning,Semiotica 42(1),1982,Mouton Pub.
(11) Dretske, Fred - The mind's awareness of itself - www on line (1997)
(12) Ritter, F - Soar-faq - www on line (G8)- (1996)
(13) Goleman, David- Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books (1996)
(14) Freud, Sigmund - Los Textos Fundamentales del Psicoanalisis, Altaya (1993)
(15) Mayr A - The Growth of Biological Thought, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1982)
(16) Gell-Mann, Murray, in J. Brockman (ed.) La Tercera Cultura, Tusquets (1996)
(17) Barral, R H and C H von der Becke- Biotermodinamica del Cerebro, U N de Lujan (1997),
Next
Neurons are slow and the alarm signals are much faster. This fact (1)
appears to be persistently selecting (14). Natural selection gives priority to
economic solutions: brain selects bypasses with more velocity but less precision (13).
A generalized Le Chatelier principle, extended to non-linear situations, replacing
equilibria by phase transitions, appears as a theoretical reductionist help with
multiple applications (17).
Now we mention a jazz-band model for the tentative and temporary leadership of one
of the multiple protominds, during the NDC, as well as a brain biothermodynamical
model of the voting process of said protominds (17).
Within a given NDC one finds various energetic levels involved (7,17).
All these generally simple facts, when explained one after the other, produce
notwithstanding a chaotic EEG. From this chaos the authors see the emergence of a
reductionist law, whose first draft may be stated as follows:
Biothermodynamics, ruled by the von Baer-Mayr reduction, gives a quite simple
vision of the workings of mind as a control tool and alarm-situations manager.
The emotional intelligence makes clear where the NDC set-points are, because the
magnitude of actual feelings measures the unbalance between the set-points and the
controlled behaviors under adjustment by the NDC. P-consciousness is the result of
all the controls trying to yield homeostasis, surveying the presence of alarms, as a kind of virtual
supercontrol (17).
The model may enlighten some up-to-date topics, like what happens with the superposition of strong
attention and alpha-EEG-wave moods.
-------
(1) Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster, New York (1988)
(2) Johnson-Laird, P-The Computer and the Mind, Harvard Univ.Press (1988)
(3) Block, Ned - On a Confusion about a Function..., Cambridge Univ.Press(1994)
(4) Schacter, D -in H.Roedinger et al (ed.) Varieties of Memory...,Erlbaum (1989)
(5) Weinstein, Peter - Intranets. Technology and Learning, 17,2,50 (1996)
(6) Wiener, Norbert- Cybernetics (1948), The Human Use of Human Beings (1954)
(7) Newell, A- Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1988)
(8) Beer, Randall - Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, Academic Press (1991)
(9) Cohen, J and I Stewart - The Collapse of Chaos, Viking, New York (1994),
(10) Uexkull, Jakob von - The Theory of Meaning,Semiotica 42(1),1982,Mouton Pub.
(11) Dretske, Fred - The mind's awareness of itself - www on line (1997)
(12) Ritter, F - Soar-faq - www on line (G8)- (1996)
(13) Goleman, David- Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books (1996)
(14) Freud, Sigmund - Los Textos Fundamentales del Psicoanalisis, Altaya (1993)
(15) Mayr A - The Growth of Biological Thought, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1982)
(16) Gell-Mann, Murray, in J. Brockman (ed.) La Tercera Cultura, Tusquets (1996)
(17) Barral, R H and C H von der Becke- Biotermodinamica del Cerebro, U N de Lujan (1997),
Next
Biothermodynamics, ruled by the von Baer-Mayr reduction, gives a quite simple
vision of the workings of mind as a control tool and alarm-situations manager.
The emotional intelligence makes clear where the NDC set-points are, because the
magnitude of actual feelings measures the unbalance between the set-points and the
controlled behaviors under adjustment by the NDC. P-consciousness is the result of
all the controls trying to yield homeostasis, surveying the presence of alarms, as a kind of virtual
supercontrol (17).
The model may enlighten some up-to-date topics, like what happens with the superposition of strong
attention and alpha-EEG-wave moods.
-------
(1) Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind, Simon & Schuster, New York (1988)
(2) Johnson-Laird, P-The Computer and the Mind, Harvard Univ.Press (1988)
(3) Block, Ned - On a Confusion about a Function..., Cambridge Univ.Press(1994)
(4) Schacter, D -in H.Roedinger et al (ed.) Varieties of Memory...,Erlbaum (1989)
(5) Weinstein, Peter - Intranets. Technology and Learning, 17,2,50 (1996)
(6) Wiener, Norbert- Cybernetics (1948), The Human Use of Human Beings (1954)
(7) Newell, A- Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1988)
(8) Beer, Randall - Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, Academic Press (1991)
(9) Cohen, J and I Stewart - The Collapse of Chaos, Viking, New York (1994),
(10) Uexkull, Jakob von - The Theory of Meaning,Semiotica 42(1),1982,Mouton Pub.
(11) Dretske, Fred - The mind's awareness of itself - www on line (1997)
(12) Ritter, F - Soar-faq - www on line (G8)- (1996)
(13) Goleman, David- Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books (1996)
(14) Freud, Sigmund - Los Textos Fundamentales del Psicoanalisis, Altaya (1993)
(15) Mayr A - The Growth of Biological Thought, Harvard U. Press, Cambridge (1982)
(16) Gell-Mann, Murray, in J. Brockman (ed.) La Tercera Cultura, Tusquets (1996)
(17) Barral, R H and C H von der Becke- Biotermodinamica del Cerebro, U N de Lujan (1997),
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