scholarly journals A computational approach to understand the human thought process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitesh Dundas ◽  
Maurice Ling
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Computational Model ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Computational Approach ◽  
Fundamental Unit ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Scientific Advances

The aim of this paper is to understand the human mind functions such that we can simulate them into a computational model for making cognitive systems more intelligent. We then present this model with formulae using a top-down approach. We propose that the human thought process, which is the fundamental unit for thehuman mind and all the different emotions coming from it, can be implemented as a mathematical formulae to a reasonable extent. Further, we argue that our model has the ability to derive mind functions such as dreams and thinking. The model utilizes a top-down approach for understanding the factors involved in the thought process while explaining the factors involved. The authors are intend to make continuous improvements in the formulae as more scientific advances happen in the understanding of the human brain.

Integrate, yes, but what and how? A computational approach of sensorimotor fusion in speech

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphaël Laurent ◽  
Clément Moulin-Frier ◽  
Pierre Bessière ◽  
Jean-Luc Schwartz ◽  
Julien Diard
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Computational Model ◽  
Computational Approach ◽  
Communication Situations ◽  
Similar Information ◽  
Optimal Decoding

AbstractWe consider a computational model comparing the possible roles of “association” and “simulation” in phonetic decoding, demonstrating that these two routes can contain similar information in some “perfect” communication situations and highlighting situations where their decoding performance differs. We conclude that optimal decoding should involve some sort of fusion of association and simulation in the human brain.

BERPIKIR KREATIF DAN INOVATIF DALAM MEMBANGUN JIWA ENTREPRENEUR

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jumari Jumari
Keyword(s):  
Thought Process ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
The Face ◽  
Innovative Thinking

This article examines the creative and innovative thinking in building the entrepreneurial spirit. With the creative and innovative thinking are the human thought process undertaken to develop themselves, especially in building the entrepreneurial spirit. The figure of the entrepreneur as the ideals of human independence in trying to provide support in realizing the nation’s progress. Evidence that the entrepreneur is able to realize the nation’s progress is the existence in the face of obstacles and challenges as well as creative and innovative thinking so that the obstacles and challenges are not an obstacle to success, but rather as an opportunity. Creative and innovative thinking to try to reverse the mindset that tends to be negative into a positive. The assumption that appear in the form of strong beliefs to himself by maximizing the grace to think the Lord gave humans. Keyword: Berpikir, Kreatif, Inovatif, Entrepreneur.

The Legitimacy of Solomon. Some structural aspects of Old Testament history

2001 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-174
Author(s):  
Edmund Leach
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Brain Mechanism ◽  
Causal Force ◽  
Structural Aspects

I must start with a personal disavowal. This essay employs an explicitly Lévi-Straussian procedure but it is not intended as a guide to wider aspects of Lévi-Strauss thought. Although I feel reasonably safe with Lévi-Strauss's concept of structure, I am quite out of my depth when it comes to the related but subtler notion of esprit. Lévi-Strauss's esprit appears in sundry guises. In 1952, originally in English, he/it was a personalized “human mind”, an uninvited guest who took his place around the conference table among a group of American linguists and anthropologists (I); in the earlier chapters of La pensée sauvage he is perhaps the bricoleur—handiman—who is busy contriving culture from the junk of history and anything else that comes to hand (2); at the conclusion of Le cru et le cuit (3), in more abstract and more serious vein, esprit seems to be a kind of limiting characteristic of the human brain mechanism and appears as part of an extremely involved interchange relationship in which it (esprit) is the causal force producing myths of which its own structure is a precipitate. Elsewhere again (4) esprit seems to correspond to that very mysterious something which is a mediator between “praxis et pratiques” and which is described as « le schème conceptuel par l'opération duquel une matière et une forme, dépourvues l'une et l'autre d'existence indépendante, s'accomplissent comme structures, c'est-à-dire comme êtres à la fois empiriques et intelligibles ».

scholarly journals Top-down causation and emergence: some comments on mechanisms

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
George F. R. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Causal Power ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Adaptive Selection ◽  
Abstract Entities ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Medical Healthcare

Both bottom-up and top-down causation occur in the hierarchy of structure and causation. A key feature is multiple realizability of higher level functions, and consequent existence of equivalence classes of lower level variables that correspond to the same higher level state. Five essentially different classes of top-down influence can be identified, and their existence demonstrated by many real-world examples. They are: algorithmic top-down causation; top-down causation via non-adaptive information control, top-down causation via adaptive selection, top-down causation via adaptive information control and intelligent top-down causation (the effect of the human mind on the physical world). Through the mind, abstract entities such as mathematical structures have causal power. The causal slack enabling top-down action to take place lies in the structuring of the system so as to attain higher level functions; in the way the nature of lower level elements is changed by context, and in micro-indeterminism combined with adaptive selection. Understanding top-down causation can have important effects on society. Two cases will be mentioned: medical/healthcare issues, and education—in particular, teaching reading and writing. In both cases, an ongoing battle between bottom-up and top-down approaches has important consequences for society.

scholarly journals Why the Content of Animal Thought Cannot Be Propositional

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-207
Author(s):  
Mariela Aguilera
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Propositional Content ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Propositional Structure

In “Steps toward Origins of Propositional Thought”, Burge claims that animals of different species are capable of making deductive inferences. According to Burge, that is why propositional thought is extended beyond the human mind to the minds of other kinds of creatures. But, as I argue here, the inferential capacities of animals do not guarantee a propositional structure. According to my argument, propositional content has predicates that might involve a quantificational structure. And the absence of this structure in animal thought might explain some of the differences with the propositional content of human thought.

scholarly journals MEREFLEKSIKAN TUHAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF METAFISIKA, DAN RELEVASINYA BAGI MULTIKULTURALISME INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Agustinus Wisnu Dewantara
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Analogical Approach ◽  
Human Intellect ◽  
The Relationship

Talking about God can not be separated from the activity of human thought. Activity is the heart of metaphysics. Searching religious authenticity tends to lead to a leap in harsh encounter with other religions. This interfaith encounter harsh posed a dilemma. Why? Because on the one hand religion is the peacemaker, but on the other hand it’s has of encouraging conflict and even violence. Understanding God is not quite done only by understanding the religion dogma, but to understand God rationally it is needed. It is true that humans understand the world according to his own ego, but it is not simultaneously affirm that God is only a projection of the human mind. Humans understand things outside of himself because no awareness of it. On this side of metaphysics finds itself. Analogical approach allows humans to approach and express God metaphysically. Human clearly can not express the reality of the divine in human language, but with the human intellect is able to reflect something about the relationship with God. Analogy allows humans to enter the metaphysical discussion about God. People who are at this point should come to the understanding that God is the Same One More From My mind, The Impossible is defined, the Supreme Mystery, and infinitely far above any human thoughts.

scholarly journals On The Verge of the Hybrid Mind

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Surjo Soekadar ◽  
Jennifer Chandler ◽  
Marcello Ienca ◽  
Christoph Bublitz
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Technological Artifacts ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

Recent advances in neurotechnology allow for an increasingly tight integration of the human brain and mind with artificial cognitive systems, blending persons with technologies and creating an assemblage that we call a hybrid mind. In some ways the mind has always been a hybrid, emerging from the interaction of biology, culture (including technological artifacts) and the natural environment. However, with the emergence of neurotechnologies enabling bidirectional flows of information between the brain and AI-enabled devices, integrated into mutually adaptive assemblages, we have arrived at a point where the specific examination of this new instantiation of the hybrid mind is essential. Among the critical questions raised by this development are the effects of these devices on the user’s perception of the self, and on the user’s experience of their own mental contents. Questions arise related to the boundaries of the mind and body and whether the hardware and software that are functionally integrated with the body and mind are to be viewed as parts of the person or separate artifacts subject to different legal treatment. Other questions relate to how to attribute responsibility for actions taken as a result of the operations of a hybrid mind, as well as how to settle questions of the privacy and security of information generated and retained within a hybrid mind.

scholarly journals Our Varying Histories and Future Potential: Models and Maps in Science, the Humanities, and in Music Theory

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Narmour
Keyword(s):  
Music Theory ◽  
Music Cognition ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Parent Organization ◽  
Musical Knowledge ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Intellectual Potential

part 1 briefly recounts the influence of social unrest and the explosion of knowledge in both psychology and the humanities circa 1970-1990. As the sciences rely on explicit top-down theories connected to bottom-up maps and models, and whereas the humanities build on bottom-up differences within malleable top-down “theories” (approaches, themes, theses, programs, methods, etc.), the changes in the sciences during this period contrasted sharply with the changes in the humanities. Part 2 discusses in detail how these two social transformations affected the histories of music theory and cognitive music theory. The former fractiously withdrew from its parent organization (AMS), whereas the latter was welcomed into SMPC. Inasmuch as both music theory and cognitive music theory rely on maps and models, Part 3 examines the metatheoretical importance of these terms for music cognition, music theory, and cognitive music theory. Part 4 speculates about the future—how music cognition, cognitive music theory, and music theory contribute to the structure of musical knowledge. The intellectual potential of this unique triadic collaboration is discussed: psychology provides a commanding empirical framework of the human mind, while music theory and cognitive music theory logically model moment-to-moment temporal emotions and the auditory intellections at the core of musical art.

Conclusion

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin E. H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Fixed Number ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tremendous Amount

This concluding chapter links antiquarian and contemporary conceptions of race, though at the same time noting that there can be no easy distinction between the two. It shows that while there may be transhistorical and innate predispositions to divide human society into a fixed number of essentialized subgroups, it would be extremely hasty to suppose that these “kinks” of the human mind are somehow fixed in the human brain. Between any possible predisposition and the actual modern history of thinking about race, there is a tremendous amount of room for conceptualizing alternative paths our deep-seated propensities for thinking about human diversity might have taken, and could still yet take.

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