The Brain, A Deciphered Enigma — Dorin Teodor Moisa
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. *** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook. Details Below. *** *** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. *** Title : Creierul, O Enigma Descifrata Author : Dorin Teodor Moisa Release date : March 1, 2004 [eBook #11756] Most recently updated: December 26, 2020 Language : Romanian Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11756 *** START OF CREIERUL, O ENIGMA DESCIFRATA (Traducerea in limba engleza) Dorin T. MOISA The Brain, a Decoded Enigma Warning This book contains a symbolic model associated to the basic function of the brain. A symbolic model is a model based on logic only. So, this book is not recommended to individuals who has the tendency to understand the external reality based on imagination. The book can be understand by persons between 12 and 20 years old who have special abilities in the field of positive sciences. Also, the book is recommended to persons who already work in the field of positive sciences (mathematicians, phisicists, engineers and so on). Introduction This book contains my original theory, called MDT (Modeling Devices Theory) on the basic hardware function of the brain (human or animal). As any scientific theory, it is a symbolic model. Any symbolic model is based on a limited number of basic terms and a limited number of basic relations between the basic terms. For the basic terms and only for them, there are accepted descriptive definitions. All the others terms are generated by the model, together with their normal definitions. These definitions are generated by the model by logical and mathematical procedures. These are the basic characteristics of any scientific theory and so, I follow the procedures described above, to make a theory on the basic hardware functions of the brain. This theory is in a total opposition with all the actual sciences associated with the functions of the brain. The present sciences, associated with the functions of the brain, are not based on a single fundamental model. In this way, as my theory will be accepted, all what it was already written in the actual sciences associated with the functions of the brain, have to be re-written or forgotten. This attempt of total revolution is necessary because the actual sciences on the brain don't use normal definitions of the terms. There are only descriptions associated with them. In psychology, for instance, about any scientist has his/her own list of descriptive definition associated with the terms used by him/her. In this way, it is not possible to make a logical structure to integrate all the terms used in that field. So, the psychology, for instance, is not a positive science. Example: Let's consider a classical positive science, as Newton's Mechanics is. In this symbolic model, all terms have exactly the same definition for all the scientists. These definition are not changed since 340 years ago when they were generated by the symbolic model of Mechanics. For instance, the term "speed" is defined as v=s/t. That is, "speed" means that the "space" is divided by "time". This definition is a normal definition generated by the symbolic model of Mechanics and so, that term is not introduced by description. Let's suppose now that a symbolic model associated with the basic hardware function of the brain is already created or it will be created. The first consequence is that all the terms used in association with the functions of the brain will be generated by the model by logical and mathematical procedures, together with their normal definitions. There is no reason to suppose that any descriptive definition which is already used in the present sciences of the brain will be compatible with the definitions generated by that symbolic model. So, all what is already created in the present sciences associated with the brain has to be re-written or forgotten. Regardless of the fact that MDT theory will be accepted or not, a symbolic model which covers the basic hardware function of the brain will produce this total revolution in all the sciences associated with the brain, including psychology, psychiatry, gnoseology, epistemology, many parts of social sciences. Let's consider that a symbolic model to cover the basic functions of the brain is created and is accepted. The persons who already work in these fields have to re-start everything about from zero. Their opposition will be enormous and I have no illusion in this direction. This theory was created about 10 years ago. Based on my personal experience, the theory is easily understood by persons with special orientation on positive sciences, including children's over 12 years old. Also, the persons who already work with symbolic models (mathematicians, physicists, engineers and so on) have a high capacity to understand it. Let's see what MDT offers. First of all, MDT treats the brain as a device which processes the information. In this way, MDT has no direct connection with the medicine. MDT is concerning only with the basic functions associated with information processing and it is not interested by problems as "what part of the brain is doing something" or "how a function is implemented". MDT is a theory associated with the processing of the information and so it has no direct interference with the physical brain. As a symbolic model associated with the basic function of the brain, it generates precise definition, based on logic, of all the terms used in association with the functions of the brain. In this way, all the terms are logical correlated between them. Examples: MDT generates normal definitions for: knowledge, consciousness, to imagine, to think, intelligence, emotion, to be irritate, love, happiness and many other