A draft outline exploring mind, substrates, computation, neurobiology, and possible futures of cognition beyond biological constraints.
This is a draft. It’s currently an outline / scratchpad for a longer essay.
Table of Contents
- What is mind?
- functionalist
- identity
- computational
- Mind in general
- Patterns and thought
- recursive structure
- Language and reasoning
- symbolic and non-symbolic reasoning
- how is language represented in the brain?
- Spiking neural assemblies
- neurobiological plausibility
- Biological chauvinism
- fractal structure
- biological structures are not good at everything
- interactions BETWEEN units, not within units
- is a body required?
- Possible substrates
- is consciousness substrate independent?
- neural nanotechnology (silver nanowires)
- Von Neumann vs. neuromorphic approaches
- Chimera states
- synchronous and asynchronous dynamics
- Information processing in mind
- global workspace theory
- dynamic core theory (Gerald Edelman)
- Attention
- “Attention Schema”: consciousness as a brain’s representation of its own attentional processes
- Cortical circuits
- neuronal motifs
- Statistical thermodynamics of mind
- energy equilibrium methodology
- Self-organizing capacity
- Learning
- ways in which long-range metacognitive patterns improve one’s own learning rate
- plasticity
- meta-plasticity
- dynamic learning
- hebbian learning
- Critical states of a second-order differential model of global transient state phenomena
- The evolution of mind-like substrates and structures, and what happens when they become untethered to biological constraints
- Frameworks for qualia and artificial subjectivity
- functionalist emergence of information processing
- emergentist dynamic arisal from simple components and their complex interaction
- phenomenological analysis
- categorical semantic segmentation