PRECURSORS

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 BRAINCULTURE, MIND, BRAIN/BRAIN, MIND,

CULTURE (GEERTZ)HOW SOCIETY SHAPES THE HUMAN

MIND (BROTHERS)

NOW, LET THE INTERDISCIPLINARY GAMES BEGIN

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Teaching How to Bridge Neuroscience, Society, andCulture

Giovanni FrazzettoNeuroschool: 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, societyand culture

IS THE BRAIN PLAYING CHESS; IS KASPAROV PLAYING CHESS; OR IS A

HUMACHINE HYBRID NETWORK PLAYING CHESS?

Is the brain playing chess? OR:

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Is a troubled Kasparov playing chess?

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Kasparov vs. Deep Blue-what is going on here? A

HUMACHINE HYBRID NETWORK?

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GIVEN: the calls for an interdisciplinary approach to the mind/brain/body problem.

GIVEN: the criticisms of dichotomous thinkingGIVEN: the emerging calls for social inputs in

brain and mind studiesGIVEN: the limits of reigning categories and

classificationsWhat 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 BERECORDED 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