The Overall Picture


I have summarized my view of mind, body, action, causality, depth, complexity, mechanism, and dynamics several times during the development of the topic.

Let me now illuminate what I believe to be a promising general picture of the mind from a different viewpont.

Here I will amplify the notion of Baconian science by pleading materialism over any symbolism. A piece of matter is superior to any description or model. This is old intuition but it starts to get a well-understood scientific shape in the light of  these several developments.

Reformulating things from the present viewpoint now, we get this: mind is matter, and the study of the mind equals the study of how the relevant complexity of matter can be reflected in some new types of models, at least at the level (or in the form) of some metaphors.


My JAIST research

• causality, mechanisms and the causal view of science
• representation and meaning in mental models
• complex systems that simulate simple systems

                controlled CI
                search for other causal metaphors
                virtual embodiment