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Know Thyself: inscription in the  Apollo  Temple at Delphi

    Western thoughts--Creation: nothingness to somethingness: need for objectivity and rationalism
    The breakaway and aliention from the animal kingdom and nature when man knows himself   
    From Know Thyself  to selfconsciousness to rationality and the failure of social Darwinism
    Oriental thoughts: union of man and nature---->loss of self-conciousness---->irrationalism; somethingness to nothingness---->no need for objectivity and rationalism
     Rationalism: deduction VS intuition & induction----> loss of creativity
    
     From Calvinism and Lutheranism to Humanism: "Hate thyself"  to "love thyself", development of technologies, the second "creation"  and self-confidence?

Natural evolution and the structure of the human brain
     Three layers / short-term memory /long-term memory and their melocular underpinning
    From embryo to the fully grown brain
     products of evolution: selfishness and exponential growth of knowledge : cultural evulation
    Turing Test, universal Turing Machine/Principle, Church-Turing thesis and computability

Study of consciousness

         The bridge between the two cultures as observed by CP Snow:

                    The culture of the arts and humanities and the culture of sciences

         Conciousness and the bottom-up/top-down  models
 
The Philosophy of  complex dynamic systems
        interactions:
        time scales
         length scales
          Emergence
           Predictability, repeatability, determinism,  complexity and computability

The Interaction of  the brain and the mind

       Dualism and monism : the origins of dualism and  what is wrong.
       Pattern  & structures & emergence: Morphology and physical properties 
        fMRI and PET scans: what they can do and can not do

        Photon-Pigment  interaction in Retina
         Signal propagation and Ion flow through protein gates
        Memory and Protein structures: NMDA receptor-Magnesium/Calcium Ion-Calmodulin interactions

The interactions within the mind

     consciousness :  self-awareness=to be aware of being aware; rationality; objectivity; free wills & human rights; Morality & justice ; languages;
    subconciousness: feelings, intuitions, emotions (fear & aggression | hope | love and happiness), irrationality; instincts;    
        Can instinct, rationality and consciousness be simulated: the theory of super determinacy and computability

       The mind is physical!- the physical mechanisms of the mind: memory, learning and thinking
        The human mind's exponential growth in complexity: dynamic state and self growth


The interactions of the mind and the body

                hunger, thirst and sexual appetite--feelings--->emotions--> consciousness---->actions

 Evolution  of minds
              Learning and Knowledge creation: Theory= knowledge creation by conjectures and refutations consciously and unconsciously

               Dogmatic learning and critical leaning

                Evolution as a learning /knowledge creation process
              Consciousness and mental illnesses /loss of consciousness

Interactions of minds:
           Media: symbols & language
            Contents: Memes :
            Rules: Logical
            From private Mind to public mind: how to turn it as a personal experience into a public experience
                          Telepathy
                           Direct mind reading by physical wiring of nervous systems for direct communications
                           fMRI and PET scanning                       

  Creativity of the mind
      geniuses and autism

Mechanics of the mind
      Thermodynamics of the mind and complex system dynamics and  irreversibility        

                 Complexity,  entropy and the arrow of time

          Evulotion towards complexity or ramdomness?

       Complex system dynamics, uncertainty and determinacy
      Energy view of the mind
      Quantum mechanics of the mind: uncertainty, quantum coherance,  multiverse and free wills

       Multi-mind dynamic interactions: rational and irrational interactions.

  Quantum computing and DNA computing

  Uncertainty principle, determinism and free wills
   quantum information and communications
    quantum teleportation 
    quantum mechanics, telepathy and Qigong

Sex and the mind

         the Male and female minds

Mind at rest
      dreams and psychoanalysis 

Computational simulation of the mind

               Can the mind emerge by simulating the brain? or Can we bypass the brain?

       Lamackian or phenotype copying and simulation  VS  genotype copying and simulation

        on multiscale parallel simulation of complex systems

       Parallel cellular automata on unstructured adaptive tetrahedral grids
       A model of the mind: an OS that learns and produces its own applications
       Molecular dynamic simulation of the firing processes of nerve cells

On predicting the future

              Mind, Science and God
              Technology at exponential rate
          Intelligence at exponential rate: from the big bang to the formation of planets to the emergence of human intelligence  to computational intelligence: evolution revisited
        When computational intelligence is superior to the human mind
             biological bodies are replaced by artificial ones as a fashion statement
            bionics
             computational intelligence replaces the human mind as a result of the Darwinian evolution
               the mind through inter-planetary information networks

Software

Mind_Sim

Ref:erences

Five axioms of consciousness

1) CSPL
2) Hofstadter
3) CogSci
4) Tsien Lab Princeton /UMIST_NEURO
5) Tsien Lab Stanford
6) "What is life", by  Erwin Shrodinger
7) Computing machinery and Intelligence, A. Turin, in Mind, Vol IIx, No 236, 1950.
8) Turing Digital Archieve/ Turing.Org / Turing.Net
9) Taking Children Seriously (TCS)
10) Mind-Brain Links
11) Francis Crick / Klab / Karl Popper
12) Quantum Consciousness
13) Grosssberg's publist
14) The origin of species by Charles Darwin
15) The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature by Ilya Prigogine
16) The computational beauty of Nature, GW Flake
17) A new kind of science, stephen Wolfram
18) The emperor's new mind, Roger Penrose
19) The quark and the Jaguar, Murray Gell-Mann
20) Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter

21) The selfish gene, Richard Dawkins
22) Kevin Warwick

23) Journal of  Mind
24) Journal of consciousness studies

emotion:

  1. A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love.

  2. A state of mental agitation or disturbance: spoke unsteadily in a voice that betrayed his emotion. See Synonyms at feeling.

  3. The part of the consciousness that involves feeling; sensibility: "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect" (Isaac Bashevis Singer).