Further Steps to and Ecology of Mind: Mapping Bateson onto Boolean Nets

Dynamic Pattern Languages

Natural language

Prose, Poetry, Stories, Myths

The Method Section

Mathematical Models (Quantitative Models)

Logical Systems

Computer simulations

Visualizations

Rhythm

Melody

Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory

Pattern Changing over Time

Relations among Relations

Coupled Equations, e.g., Turing's Morphogenesis

We have proposed the broad framework that

Mind and Nature are a Unity

That
Evolution
Morphogenesis
(Embryonic Development of Form)
Thinking
In the logic of Dreams
In the logic of Modeling
In the logic of Plausible Reasoning

All share the same fundamental process
and that process is in human terms:
THE STORY

And Story
is a description of
Pattern Changing over Time

And so...

The choice of a pattern language

The choice of a tautology to map

onto

Observations of Mind

NDS Theory

Example:

Equations describing Fractals
can form a basis for
Describing Pattern

There are profound issues
in the Development of Form
(Morphogenesis)
in any Pattern Language
(e.g.,Evelyn Keller, 2002)
but at least the issues are exposed

and not hiding behind quantity

Boolean Systems

My Tautology of Choice

Kauffman:

The Origins of Order
Mapping Boolean Systems onto Descriptions of Evolution

Kauffman (1993) proposed that
self-organization and natural selection
are co-principles
"weaving the tapestry of life."

Kauffman
developed Boolean network models as idealizations to explore questions about the creation of “genetic circuits of a variety of logics and complexities” (1995, pp. 98, 99)

Criteria of Mind

(1) Mind is an aggregate of interacting parts or components.
(2) The interaction between parts of mind is triggered by difference.
(3) Mental process requires collateral energy.
(4) Mental process requires circular (or more complex) chains of determination.
(5) In mental process the effects of difference are to be regarded as transforms (i.e., coded versions) of the difference which preceded them.
Air pressure differences ==> Fluid Pressure Diffs ==> Cilia root pressure diffs ==> Neuronal State differences ==> etc.
(6) The description and classification of these processes of transformation discloses a hierarchy of logical types immanent in the phenomena.
Logical Hierarchies vs Emergent Hierarchies?

I shall argue that the phenomena which we call thought, evolution, ecology, life, learning occur only in systems that satisfy these criteria.
(Bateson, 1979, pp. 85, 86)

The Map is Not the Territory

What gets onto maps
from the territory
are differences,
whether these be “a difference in altitude,
a difference in vegetation,
a difference in population structure,
difference in surface, or whatever...”
(Bateson, 1972, p. 457)

“the transform of a difference traveling in a circuit is an elementary idea”
(1972, p. 460)

Operational Closure & Entrainment