PRECURSORS

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND BRAIN 1 A paradigm of socially blind reasoning In a line of inquiry that includes The Leibniz Mill, Turing’s paper machine, and Block’s Chinese Nation, Searle’s Chinese Room is inhabited by a “human” who is stripped down to an asocial impossibility, a self in a vat.

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND BRAIN 2

SOCIOLOGY OF MIND

SOCIOLOGY OF BRAIN CULTURE, MIND, BRAIN/BRAIN, MIND, CULTURE (GEERTZ) HOW SOCIETY SHAPES THE HUMAN MIND (BROTHERS)

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Teaching How to Bridge Neuroscience, Society, and Culture Giovanni Frazzetto Neuroschool: Promoting Societal Awareness and Transdisciplinarity in the Neurosciences1 BIOS Centre, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, 2 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy Giovanni is a an intersdisciplinary scholar and writer exploring boundaries between science, society and culture

IS THE BRAIN PLAYING CHESS; IS KASPAROV PLAYING CHESS; OR IS A HUMACHINE HYBRID NETWORK PLAYING CHESS?

Kasparov vs. Deep Blue- what is going on here? A HUMACHINE HYBRID NETWORK? 6/4/201610

GIVEN: the calls for an interdisciplinary approach to the mind/brain/body problem. GIVEN: the criticisms of dichotomous thinking GIVEN: the emerging calls for social inputs in brain and mind studies GIVEN: the limits of reigning categories and classifications What would a solution to the brain/mind/body problems and paradoxes look like?

MIND EMERGES IN THE MIDST OF INTERACTION RITUAL CHAINS

THE MIND EMERGES IN THE MIDST OF INTERACTION RITUAL CHAINS

THE UMWELT – some models to integrate & integrate with the social ecology model

INFORMATION INFORMATION IN ITS MOST RESTRICTED TECHNICAL SENSE IS A MESSAGE (UTTERANCE OR EXPRESSION) OR COLLECTION OF MESSAGES THAT CONSISTS OF AN ORDERED SEQUENCE OFSYMBOLS, OR IT IS THE MEANING THAT AN BE EXTRACTED FROM SUCH A MESSAGE OR COLLECTION OF MESSAGES. INFORMATION CAN BE RECORDED OR TRANSMITTED. IT CAN BE RECORDED AS SIGNS, OR CONVEYED AS SIGNALS BY WAVES. INFORMATION IS ANY KIND OF EVENT THAT AFFECTS THE STATE OF A DYNAMIC SYSTEM. THE CONCEPT HAS NUMEROUS OTHER MESSAGES IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS. MOREOVER, THE CONCEPT OF INFORMATION IS CLOSELY RELATED TO NOTIONS OF CONSTRAINT, COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, DATA, FORM, INSTRUCTION, KNOWLEDGE, MEANING, MENTAL STIMULUS, PATTERN, PERCEPTION, REPRESENTATION, AND ESPECIALLY ENTROPY.

THE MODEL, THE OBJECTIVE: TO REPRESENT EACH LEVEL, EACH SUBUNIT AS AN INFORMATION SYSTEM, CONSTRUCT A CIRCULATION OF INFORMATION MODEL AS THE NEXT ITERATION. THIS MODEL REPRESENTS THE NEW UNIT OF SOCIALIZATION