A physicist's model of mind

Gries, Werner Hugo

dc.contributor.author	Gries, Werner Hugo
dc.contributor.other	University of Pretoria. Dept. of Physics
dc.date.accessioned	2015-11-03T12:21:01Z
dc.date.available	2015-11-03T12:21:01Z
dc.date.issued	2015-10
dc.description	This is Essay 3 of the Collection of 'Essays on Cognitive Physical Science' in the repository UPSpace of the University of Pretoria.
dc.description	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.
dc.description	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.
dc.identifier.citation	Gries, WH 2015, 'A physicist's model of mind', Essays on Cognitive Physical Science, Essay 3, pp. 1-31.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50310
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.publisher	The Author	en_ZA
dc.rights	Copyright with the author	en_ZA
dc.subject	Physicist's model of mind	en_ZA
dc.subject	Physicist means by 'understanding'	en_ZA
dc.subject	Modular Mental Structure Model	en_ZA
dc.subject	Levels of logic	en_ZA
dc.subject	Physical and mental modules	en_ZA
dc.subject	Least effort principle	en_ZA
dc.subject	Routing of learning-related signals	en_ZA
dc.subject	Private-paradigm modules	en_ZA
dc.subject	Generation of mind	en_ZA
dc.subject	Least mental stress principle	en_ZA
dc.subject	Complex-system behaviour of mind	en_ZA
dc.subject	Signal routing by tagging	en_ZA
dc.subject	Groupthink phenomenon	en_ZA
dc.title	A physicist's model of mind	en_ZA
dc.type	Text	en_ZA