Symbolic Languages and Natural Structures a Mathematician’s Account of Empiricism

Burchard, Hermann G. W.

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“…But there also are essential concerns relating to the ontological status of various natural and logical entities (Burchard 2005). Prominent mention should be made of phenomena, long construed as mental entities but here identified as types of environmental structures.…”

Section: Understanding Perception Consciousness Self Ego: a Problementioning

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“…Unlike the radiation that acts as a causative agent this U-data stream transmits linguistic information to be processed recursively in neural centers (Burchard 2005), cf. Sect.…”

Section: Understanding Perception Consciousness Self Ego: a Problementioning

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“…Based on this linguistic understanding of neural processes, we see the mental world as a Language L, or a Language System LS, to set it apart from a Universe U deemed to be ultimately inscrutable (Burchard 2005). The LS codes and stores linguistic items, from the scene as it appears, the map-making function of the L.…”

Section: Understanding Perception Consciousness Self Ego: a Problementioning

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“…In principle, the idea of a selfgoverning brain is implicit already in Language L, perhaps better: in Language Machine LS, functioning as or comprising a World Map NK, as our substitute for the vast territories of Universe U, where we started from the observation that humans systematically mistake their internally stored idyllic world L of beauty and ease with a Universe U that is inscrutable and even hostile (Burchard 2005). LS exercises control over its perceptive apparatus by means of a pervasive system of feedbacks, referred to as top-down processing, reentrant, or recurrent processing, higher centers modifying processing in lower centers, cf.…”

Section: Understanding Perception Consciousness Self Ego: a Problementioning

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“…In Ego's decision processes we can see a Language Machine-LS at work. Heidegger's Chasm (Burchard 2005) separates the logic of thought from the biochemical substrate. 11 Logic underlies voluntary action, choices can be described using verbal language, so we may see these as dealing through orderly symbolic arrangements, in form of neural memory structures.…”

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The Role of Conscious Attention in Perception

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This is the proper place for explaining the paradox which must have struck everyone in our exposition of the form of inner sense: namely how this sense presents even ourselves to consciousness, not as we are in ourselves, but only as we appear to ourselves. For, we perceive ourselves only as we are internally affected, which seems to be contradictory, in that we should thus have to be in a passive relation to ourselves; hence, in systems of psychology, people prefer to identify inner sense with the faculty of apperception (which we have been distinguishing carefully). Immanuel Kant [B152-3], Transcendental Deduction, Critique of Pure Reason. Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. Pope Benedikt XVI, Encyclical Caritas in Veritate, Sect. 77.Abstract Impressions, energy radiated by phenomena in the momentary environmental scene, enter sensory neurons, creating in afferent nerves a data stream. Following Kant, by our inner sense the mind perceives its own thoughts as it ties together sense data into an internalized scene. The mind, residing in the brain, logically a Language Machine, processes and stores items as coded grammatical entities. Kantian synthetic unity in the linguistic brain is able to deliver our experience of the scene as we appear to see it. Uniquely, the brain records its own history, synthesizing a Movie-in-the-Brain, called the Noumenal Cosmos. Attempting thereby to represent the actual Universe, this makes for a sovereign brain that governs itself. The brain is domicile of an Ego, with its selfhood at stake at all times. Yet, it can know itself only by its actions, in which it appears as an actor in its own movie. Phenomena enter garbled, as confused apparitions, and must be put in good form using top-down feedback control by Ego, so that each movie frame makes rational sense within the overall context of the Noumenal Cosmos. A stack of frames is processed typically in 40 Hz rhythm with 300 ms process time each, for about 12 in the stack at any time. Successive neural centers are processing the stack in the brain assembly line, based on data from increasingly global receptive fields. Ego stitches together the movie frames, but only the top frame is in consciousness for 25 ms. The top frame contains the whole scene where the Ego makes an appearance as the actor that imposes Kantian synthetic unity on the scene, merely an assembly of grammatical

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Section: Understanding Perception Consciousness Self Ego: a Problementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unlike the radiation that acts as a causative agent this U-data stream transmits linguistic information to be processed recursively in neural centers (Burchard 2005), cf. Sect.…”

Section: Understanding Perception Consciousness Self Ego: a Problementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Understanding Perception Consciousness Self Ego: a Problementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Understanding Perception Consciousness Self Ego: a Problementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Understanding Perception Consciousness Self Ego: a Problementioning

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Solution Behavior of Trimethylsilyl Cellulose of Different Degrees of Substitution, Studied by Static and Dynamic Light Scattering

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Eight samples of trimethylsilyl cellulose (TMSC) with different degrees of substitution (DS) were investigated by static and dynamic light scattering in tetrahydrofuran at 25 °C. Six of these sample were prepared from Avicel cellulose (DPw = 221) by controlled silylation with stoichiometric amounts of hexamethyldisilazane in liquid ammonia at elevated temperature in an autoclave. The two others were obtained by controlled desilylation of the sample with DS = 2.72. The TMSC samples were soluble in tetrahydrofuran, but in all cases strong aggregation was observed with aggregation numbers of 80 for DS = 1.96 up to 270 for DS = 2.72. Surprisingly, the aggregation number considerably increased for the samples obtained by desilylation. These very large aggregates permitted a detailed analysis of the angular dependencies which resulted in rather rigid structures with Kuhn segment lengths of l K = 122−174 nm, about 6 times the segment length of molecularly dissolved cellulose derivatives. This increase in chain stiffness is caused by a side-by-side alignment of 2−4 chains, which further increased to about 13−14 chains for the samples obtained by partial desilylation. The structure of the aggregates resembles that of branched macromolecules built up from stiff chains in which the junction zones of 2−4 aligned chains act as branching points.

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Symbolic Languages and Natural Structures a Mathematician’s Account of Empiricism

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

The Role of Conscious Attention in Perception

The Role of Conscious Attention in Perception

Solution Behavior of Trimethylsilyl Cellulose of Different Degrees of Substitution, Studied by Static and Dynamic Light Scattering

Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, 2006

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