Published March 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Dynamical duality of type- and token-computation as an abstract brain

  • 1. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kobe University (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyoto Sangyo University (Japan)

Description

In brain science, there are few researches focusing on the theoretical relation between cognition (top-down processing) and perception (bottom-up processing). Philosophically they were regarded as the alternative leading to the dualism of mind and body, while it is an adequate problem for the endo-physics. Qualia are conjectured as the hard problem under those situations. To overcome such an impasse, we propose an abstract brain model featuring the dynamical duality of two parts of computations in a brain, in a term of endo-physics and internal measurement. Two parts of computations are expressed as binary relations, and the relationship between them is expressed as a pair of maps, called an infomorphism [Barwise J, Seligman J. Information flow, the logic of distributed systems. Cambridge University Press 1997]. Dynamical duality is implemented by the interaction between a binary relation and an infomorphism, and that leads to a dynamical change of a pair of binary relations. When a binary relation is expressed as a partial ordered set, one can check whether a part of computation is closed with respect to logical operations (i.e., a lattice) or not. By estimating a binary relation in terms of properties of lattice, we show that dynamical infomorphism robustly develops to a pair of logical computations corresponding to type cognition and non-logical one corresponding to qualia perception. It implies origin of differentiation and robust co-existence of type-cognition and qualia-perception. It is easy to see that dynamical infomorphism can also develop to a pair of singleton sets corresponding to savants' special cognitive style

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.chaos.2005.01.067;
PII
S0960-0779(05)00397-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 1187-1204
ISSN
0960-0779

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37003566
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BRAIN; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS
Descriptors DEC
BODY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANS; PROCESSING

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