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Jerome Heath

Object Oriented Mind

Object Oriented Mind

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Demythologizing Jung  
 
Demythologizing and deconstruction is the territory of the post-structuralist. But reconstruction should be the goal of such endeavors. Here the deconstruction of Jung's archetypes is reconstructed into a meaningful, workable, and useful concept of how the mind works.

The process of interpreting conversation is to compare the text of a sentence with contextual information we have. The question is: "How do we store and retrieve the context in our grammar?" It is not stored using relational algebra, which is the method we use to store computer database data for efficient computer store and retrieve mechanisms. Relational data storage is not fast enough and it is not broad enough in its combinatorial strength to explain the minds process.

The mind has a way of producing mental objects out of the interpretation of external information. A fresh encounter with the outer world is analyzed by a neural network. The information is carried by nerves from the sensing point. The nerve signals are then filtered through neural networks.

The archetype [Jung] for that area of mental processing is the link with the conscious. From this link, a memory object can be extended from the archetype (as base class). Then the archetype layer becomes the output layer of the neural network Note the archetype layer serves both as the interpretation function determining layer (how the input is interpreted) and, in the instantiation of the object, as the base class to extend a memory object from (based on the neural interpretation).

This follows a probabilistic process that is under constraints. The process is probabilistic but the constraints provide limitations so the result is controlled by these limitations. Thus the constraints prevent dissipation, and encourage meaningful results. The constraints in the young child are the archetypes. As we grow older our minds develop aggregate (abstract) classes that are useful as though they were archetypes. These constrain the mental process so that meaningful patterns result from the interpretation process.

The features of the archetypal classes, relating to the attributes and methods of a class, are then the same as the neural network activation functions. With input (our nerves send these signals about our present context) these features are used to interpret the signals (our internal program adapts them to interpretation of the input signals). When applied to a memory object in our conscious mind, the features (activation functions) are used in a way that they make the memory object useful and meaningful in our thought process. Remember the class here is a (hidden) layer of the neural network not a single node. Also an abstract class can be extended into a memory object (real class).

This short book is an excerpt of chapters from Reverse Engineering the Universe via Post-Structuralism.

Dr. Jerome Heath
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