Psychology
The Brain, A Decoded Enigma
A symbolic model is a model based on logic only. So, this book is not recommended to individuals who has the tendency to understand the external reality based on imagination.
Psychology
A symbolic model is a model based on logic only. So, this book is not recommended to individuals who has the tendency to understand the external reality based on imagination.
A symbolic model is a model based on logic only. So, this book is not recommended to individuals who has the tendency to understand the external reality based on imagination.
2. Chapter 2Any experiment is based on a model. That model tells us what we are doing and the same model tells us what we get and what we see. Any model that makes the experiment just impro...
3. Chapter 3The first step of the evolution of the brain is based on concept models. A concept model fits an entire class of entities of the external reality. During the interaction, the br...
4. Chapter 4The PSM contains also some basic models, like the model to keep in the eyesight a moving entity from external reality, or the model to touch by hand an entity in the range of th...
5. Chapter 5Such persons must be well balanced, or able to obtain a stability status by different methods, so that the normal structure of models has a reduced activity. Such persons must h...
6. Chapter 6We already defined the elite of a group as those persons who are able to stay on level 3. Let's consider that a person has to work in a position where one has to take care of th...
7. Chapter 7Example: There are an A and a B person. A is taller than B, as it results from measurement. The term 'length' is generated of the model 'space', as Euclid's Geometry and Newton'...
8. Chapter 8That is, when we are in the frame of a symbolic model and there is a problem without a solution, an image model can be activated automatically on its own (as we already know). S...
9. Chapter 9The evolution of society leads, for some nations, to an incapacity of further development based on symbolic models. These nations feel that the world is going towards something...
10. Chapter 10Let's suppose that a brain has a normally built model in accordance with external reality. This model could at some point become totally inadequate in the understanding of exter...
11. Chapter 11It seems that Descartes did not understand this. This problem seems to be difficult to be understood even in our days, taking into account that the mathematician Godel "proved"...
12. Chapter 121. The existence of a fundamental symbolic model called General Communication Language (GCL) is supposed. This symbolic model contains absolutely all words, together with their...
13. Chapter 13Experiments show that, in a controlled environment, some monkeys build and operate some primitive symbolic models. They might implement this function by software, based on image...
14. Chapter 14The states also want to persuade people to act in a certain direction, by propaganda or education. However, the political goals are short-term initiatives (at most a few legisla...
15. Chapter 15There was a small problem; from the billions of stars, seven had an apparently chaotic movement. The Ancient Greeks have called them rambling stars or planets. The European spir...
16. Chapter 16Of course, the author has no definition of the term "intelligence"; he has only a description of it. Even worse, based of the impressive bibliography, it is clear that this very...