Cogprints

On Minds' Localization

Crocco, Prof M (2004) On Minds' Localization.

Full text available as:

[img]
Preview
 PDF
400Kb

Abstract

A confluence of clues from a range of academic topics suggests that minds localization in nature consists of relativistically moving microphysical particles, whose motion is physiologically modulated. Here those clues are shown to imply that the localization of the operations of observers (minds or existentialities) in nature are the actions carriers of a force field, which action carriers are slightly slowed from near-c speed motion by electroneurobiological variations in brain physiology – thus gating through relativistic time dilation the observer’s time resolution and putting her or him in operative connection or disconnection with the cerebral representation of the surrounding occurrences. In this scenario, minds as well as sensory knowledge acquire a precise definition and appear situated in a particular point of causal sequences. Summary in general terms: Why were minds selected to turn accidents into opportunities, i. e., to progress toward biological goals through appropriate steps for which the instructions are nonetheless undefinable? Minds appear situated in certain force-carrying particles whose speed sets wakefulness or sleep. Through this force, observable by its influence on the evolutionary process, minds and bodies interact. Physical actions impinging on a mind generate in it physical reactions whose causal efficiency gets exhausted, so that the reactions cannot continue their causal series. In exchange, they become sensorially known. On them the mind then takes efficient initiatives – whereby minds acquire intellectual development – generating changes. The broken causal sequence seems to be what enables minds for their biological role. Summary in technical terms: Observers’ localization in nature might be relativistically moving particles whose motion is physiologically modulated. Transdisciplinary clues imply that speed variation is imposed onto some action carriers of a force field by their coupling with intensity variations of an overlapping field. The operations of observers (minds or existentialities) in nature seem localized in such actions carriers, slightly slowed from near-c speed motion by electroneurobiological variations – which thus gate the observer’s time resolution and put her or him in operative connection or disconnection with the surroundings. Thereby minds and sensory knowledge appear in a particular point of causal sequences. ---------------- Keywords: Piaget causality mental causation evolution volition free-will pleasure/pain awareness self-consciousness evolution attention genetic epistemology gnoseology philosophical anthropology cerebral biophysics brain- mind relationships cadacualtez cadacualtic cilia ciliary cellular cognition electroneurodynamics engram epistemology memory mind-brain mind definition memoria nervous system evolution neural networks neurobiology cognitive neuroscience neuropsychiatry noergy nous-poietikos ontology consciousness paleontology person philosophy Precambrian psychopathology psychology psychism psychiatry recall special-relativity semovience sleep-biophysics shock soul time perception interval transform ultrahistory schizophrenia Turing machines vegetative artificial-life

Item Type:Other
Keywords:Piaget causality mental causation evolution volition free-will pleasure/pain awareness self-consciousness evolution attention genetic epistemology gnoseology philosophical anthropology cerebral biophysics brain- mind relationships cadacualtez cadacualtic cilia ciliary cellular cognition electroneurodynamics engram epistemology memory mind-brain mind definition memoria nervous system evolution neural networks neurobiology cognitive neuroscience neuropsychiatry noergy nous-poietikos ontology consciousness paleontology person philosophy Precambrian psychopathology psychology psychism psychiatry recall special-relativity semovience sleep-biophysics shock soul time perception interval transform ultrahistory schizophrenia Turing machines vegetative artificial-life
Subjects:Biology > Animal Cognition
ID Code:4662
Deposited By: Bains, Dr Paul
Deposited On:26 Dec 2005
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:56

References in Article

Select the SEEK icon to attempt to find the referenced article. If it does not appear to be in cogprints you will be forwarded to the paracite service. Poorly formated references will probably not work.

[1] Piaget, Jean, Biologie et connaissance: essai sur les relations entre les regulations organiques et les processus cognitifs (Gallimard, Paris, 1967: collection « L’avenir de la science », # 42), cf. specially Chapter I and Chapter IV: 12. This and the following reference include Piaget’s two main summaries of his contributions from the standpoint of an evolutionary biologist.

[2] Piaget, Jean, Le comportement, moteur de l’evolution (Gallimard, Paris, 1976: Collection « Idées », # 354).

[3] Renton, Peter, Has the Higgs boson been discovered?, Nature 428, 141 - 144 (2004).

[4] This continuing effect that extends time processes up from microphysics deserves to be called barygenesis (“origin of mass”), in contrast with the historical occurrence that originated the population of baryons (baryogenesis).

[5] E. g., philosopher X. Zubiri says “Every apprehension has its own force of imposition, and this imposition in the intellective state is knowing”. Taken from: <www.zubiri.org/works/englishworks/si/conclusion.htm>

[6] Nielsen, Tore A., A review of mentation in REM and NREM sleep: ‘covert’ REM sleep as a possible reconciliation of two opposing models – in Pace-Schott, Edward F.; Solms, Mark; Blagrove, Mark, and Harnad, Stevan, eds., Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

[7] Solms, Mark, Dreaming and REM Sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms, Behav. Brain Sci. 23 (6), 843-50; discussion 904-1121 (2000). Also published in Pace-Schott et al., eds (see above reference).

[8] Conduit, Russell; Crewther, Sheila Gillard, and Coleman, Grahame, Poor recall of eye-movement signals from Stage 2 compared to REM sleep: implications for models of dreaming, Conscious Cogn. 13 (3), 484-500 (2004).

[9] Takeuchi, T.; Miyasita, A., Inugami, M.; Yamamoto, Y., Intrinsic dreams are not produced without REM sleep mechanisms: evidence through elicitation of sleep onset REM periods, J. Sleep Res. 10 (1): 43-52 (2001).

[10] Sommerfeld, Arnold, Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik, Band 1: Mechanik (Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 1943, p. 204)

[11] Ashby, W. Ross, Some peculiarities of complex systems, Cybernetic Medicine 9, pp. 1-7 (1973), p. 1.

[12] Garstang, Walter, Preliminary note on a new theory of the phylogeny of the chordata, Zool. Anz. 17, 122–125 (1894).

[13] Garstang, Walter, The morphology of the Tunicata and its bearing on the phylogeny of the Chordata, Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 72, 51–187 (1928).

[14] Nielsen, C., Origin of the chordate central nervous system – and the origin of chordates, Dev. Genes. Evol. 209, 198–205 (1999) .

[15] Poustka, Albert J., Kühn, Alexander; Radosavljevic, Vesna; Wellenreuther, Ruth; Lehrach, Hans, and Panopouloua, Georgia, On the origin of the chordate central nervous system: expression of onecut in the sea urchin embryo, Evol. Development 6 (4), 227–236 (2004).

[16] Relative to a shell of the observable universe some 13.7 Gyrs away. This is not necessarily the velocity with respect to the local space; nevertheless, motions inside our galactic supercluster alone add to ~300 km/s.

Metadata

Repository Staff Only: item control page

Cogprints is powered by EPrints 3 which is developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. More information and software credits.