Published August 20, 2023 | Version 1.1
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ENCODING THE MIND. A small article about justification of the perspective and a Python script in that regard

  • 1. INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER

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In the first section I present a definition of life that does not contradict the natural sciences and I conclude that life should be defined according to its observable purpose, and then it would be a Self-articulated-composition-of-the-Unity, where unity is a totality of possibilities. Afterwards I appreciate that the reconstruction of large-scale neuronal populations is unlikely to take place for at least two main reasons: the energy cost of running it, and the difficulty if not impossibility of one third party holding the keys to another's neural links. If the structure of the brain, besides being extremely different from person to person, and is also indecipherable to a third-party observer, then we must turn our attention to another field of activity, to culture and language. If Hegel was right when he argued that human beings are essentially cultural beings, and the cultural pattern can be framed semiotically, then all that remains is for us to try to encode the signs into a common language and, once we are there, to take the next step of translating the signs into computer codes. In the final section I note that language works as a physical tool and  a simulation of the mind is possible with the help of language.

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