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My main focus is on [[consciousness]], with a particular focus on the work of [[Daniel Dennett]] and [[Douglas Hofstadter]], along with:
<blockquote>Can "concept" become a legitimate scientific term? This goal could be taken to be the central goal of cognitive science.</blockquote>Douglas Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas, p89
* [[philosophy of mind]] - a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world.
* [[psychology]] - the study of mind and behavior including the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. It crosses the boundaries between the natural and social sciences.
* [[psychoanalysis]]
* [[neuroscience]] - the scientific study of the [[nervous system]] (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders, a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developmental biology, cytology, psychology, physics, computer science, chemistry, medicine, statistics, and mathematical modeling to understand the fundamental and emergent properties of neurons, glia and neural circuits. The understanding of the biological basis of learning, memory, behavior, perception, and consciousness has been described by Eric Kandel as the "epic challenge" of the biological sciences.
* [[biology]] - the scientific study of life, a natural science with a broad scope and several unifying themes: all organisms are made up of [[cells]] that process hereditary information encoded in genes, which can be transmitted to future generations, evolution, which explains the unity and diversity of life, energy processing, which allows organisms to move, grow, and reproduce, and organisms regulation their own internal environments.
* [[chemistry]] - the scientific study of the chemical elements that make up matter and compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions, their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during reactions with other substances, as well as the nature of chemical bonds in chemical compounds. In the scope of its subject, chemistry occupies an intermediate position between physics and biology.
* [[physics]] - the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, with its main goal being to understand how the universe behaves.
* [[history]] - of the human past and prehistory going back to the big bang
* [[people]]
* [[dreams]]
* [[cells]]
* [[The Origins of Creativity]]
* [[The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities]]
* [[David Lynch]]
* [[https://wiki.adlington.fr/index.php/Special:AllPages All Pages]]


Also, I'm learning:
== Concepts, Categories, Consciousness ==
* [[Python]]
* [[MediaWiki]]
* [[German Language]]


[[Books]]


[[Ricky's Alleyway]]
Core texts:
 
* [[A Brief History of Intelligence]]
* [[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]]
* [[Gravity's Rainbow]]
* [[Kant and the Platypus]]
* [[Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern]]
* [[Reading for the Plot]]
* [[Steps to an Ecology of Mind]]
* [[The Mind is Flat]]
* [[The Experience Machine]]<br />
 
== All Pages ==
{{Special:AllPages}}
 
<blockquote>My own mental image of the creative process involves viewing the organization of a mind as consisting of thousands, perhaps millions, of overlapping and intermingling implicospheres, at the center of each of which is a conceptual skeleton. The implicosphere is a flickering, ephemeral thing, a bit like a swarm of gnats around a gas-station light on a hot summer's night, perhaps more like an electron cloud, with its quantum-mechanical elusiveness, about a nucleus, blurring out and dying off the further removed from the core it is. if you have studied quantum chemistry, you know that the fluid nature of chemical bonds can best be understood as a direct consequence of the curious quantum-mechanical overlap of electronic wave functions in space, wave functions belonging to electrons orbiting neighboring nuclei. In a metaphorically similar way, it seems to me, the crazy and unexpected associations that allow creative insights to pop seemingly out of nowhere may well be consequences of a similar chemistry of concepts with its own special types of "bonds" that emerge out of an underlying "neuron mechanics'.</blockquote>Douglas Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas, p250<blockquote>Our society does a rather poor job of making us aware of, let alone interested in, the nature of common sense, the hidden assumptions that permeate thought, the complex mechanisms of sensory perception and category systems, the will the believe, the human tendency toward gullibility, the most typical flaws in arguments, the statistical inferences we make unconsciously, the vastly different temporal and spatial scales on which one can look at the universe, the many filters through which one can perceive and conceptualize people and events, and so on. The resulting deceptions, delusions, confusions, ignorances, and fears can lead to many disquieting social consequences, such as mildly or absurdly wasteful spending of funds, blatant or subtle discrimination against groups, and local or global apathy about the current state and momentum of the world. Of course everyone labors under some delusions, avoids certain kinds of thoughts, has an overly closed mind on this or that subject. What, however, are the consequences when this is multiplied by hundreds or thousands of millions, and the small pieces are woven together into a vast fabric? What does a carpet woven from the incomplete understandings and ignorances of five billion sentient beings look like from afar - and where is this flying carpet headed?</blockquote>[[Ricky's Alleyway]]


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Can "concept" become a legitimate scientific term? This goal could be taken to be the central goal of cognitive science.

Douglas Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas, p89

Concepts, Categories, Consciousness

Core texts:

All Pages

My own mental image of the creative process involves viewing the organization of a mind as consisting of thousands, perhaps millions, of overlapping and intermingling implicospheres, at the center of each of which is a conceptual skeleton. The implicosphere is a flickering, ephemeral thing, a bit like a swarm of gnats around a gas-station light on a hot summer's night, perhaps more like an electron cloud, with its quantum-mechanical elusiveness, about a nucleus, blurring out and dying off the further removed from the core it is. if you have studied quantum chemistry, you know that the fluid nature of chemical bonds can best be understood as a direct consequence of the curious quantum-mechanical overlap of electronic wave functions in space, wave functions belonging to electrons orbiting neighboring nuclei. In a metaphorically similar way, it seems to me, the crazy and unexpected associations that allow creative insights to pop seemingly out of nowhere may well be consequences of a similar chemistry of concepts with its own special types of "bonds" that emerge out of an underlying "neuron mechanics'.

Douglas Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas, p250

Our society does a rather poor job of making us aware of, let alone interested in, the nature of common sense, the hidden assumptions that permeate thought, the complex mechanisms of sensory perception and category systems, the will the believe, the human tendency toward gullibility, the most typical flaws in arguments, the statistical inferences we make unconsciously, the vastly different temporal and spatial scales on which one can look at the universe, the many filters through which one can perceive and conceptualize people and events, and so on. The resulting deceptions, delusions, confusions, ignorances, and fears can lead to many disquieting social consequences, such as mildly or absurdly wasteful spending of funds, blatant or subtle discrimination against groups, and local or global apathy about the current state and momentum of the world. Of course everyone labors under some delusions, avoids certain kinds of thoughts, has an overly closed mind on this or that subject. What, however, are the consequences when this is multiplied by hundreds or thousands of millions, and the small pieces are woven together into a vast fabric? What does a carpet woven from the incomplete understandings and ignorances of five billion sentient beings look like from afar - and where is this flying carpet headed?

Ricky's Alleyway

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