KARL JASPERS FORUM

SHORT NOTE 84

MODELING BRAIN ACTIVITY, NOT THE MIND
by Peter Beamish
27 October 2006, posted 4 November 2006

Dr. Herbert FJ Müller wrote:

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The title of this note contradicts a subtitle ('Modeling the Mind') of the 6 October 2006 issue of Science. It has a special section (p.75) entitled 'Of Bytes and Brains', which accurately characterizes the content of its three review articles (Modeling Single Neuron-Dynamics; Neuronal Computations with Stochastic Network States; and Biologically Based Computational Models of High-Level Cognition).

However, in a side column (also on p.75), the title 'Modeling the Mind' appears, without explanation (as if it meant the same as 'Of Bytes and Brains'); it takes over as the running Section title, and makes its way onto the front cover as well.

'Minds' are subjective, [agree!] encompassing, [meaning surrounding, or forming a sphere or spheroid around one's "Central Nervous System, CNS"] and operate from an unstructured center, [but "Mental Thought Processes, MTPs" appear highly "structured"] as has been often discussed in KJF.[?] They cannot become objects, nor can they be modeled. [Here, WE "DEBATE" that a "mind" ("ESSOS," or Event Space Sphere Or Spheroid), can be newly 'modelled' using the concepts of "Mental Vector Processes, MVPs."] The equation of mind with brain is a common error, [_VERY_ correct by "RBC Theory!"] but one would have hoped that the editors of Science stayed clear of this conceptual trap, the core of the so-called mind-brain (or consciousness) problem. [Agree 100% with your critique of such editors!]

[For details of "MVPs" see http://www.egroups.com/message/time/13163

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"Chimo," Inuktitut meaning: "<To Your Great Health & Great Happiness!>." "A duration of time" is this day #(365250+/-1461)+365250+2126 = ~#732626 of this 3rd Millennium. "A 'duraTion' of Time" is: day #300 of this "Sun Cycle," or this 13:00:00 hrs, min, sec of "NLTime" (not "time"), 'peter' Here the upper case "Ts" in "duraTion, Time, and NLTime" symbolize "RT," other such examples are "LateTime," "SynchronizaTion" and "InformaTion." "RhythmicTime, RT = Perception of LateTime RELATIVE to SynchronizaTion." "RBC" is: "InformaTion Communication," or abbreviation: "CommunicaTion."

Define "TIME" as the sum of: "conventional time ct" + "RhythmicTime RT," only "real" on or within one's Event Space Sphere Or Spheroid ("ESSOS").

"TIME" is "The (mental) Reading OF (NOT ON) A Clock" (Einstein revised), In: "TIME" beyond "conventional time" (Concept #6), ISBN: 0-

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Peter Beamish