Hageback Niklas. The Virtual Mind: Designing the Logic to Approximate Human Thinking

Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2017. — 173 p. — (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series). — ISBN10: 1138054038, ISBN13: 978-1138054035.The Virtual Mind: Designing the Logic to Approximate Human Thinking, through an in-depth and multidisciplinary review, outlines and defines the underpinnings for modelling human thinking through
approximating the mind. Whilst there are plenty of efforts underway trying to mimic the brain, its complexities have so far proven insurmountable. But replicating the abstract notion of the mind provides a viable and quicker route. Broadly, the mind consists of a conscious and an unconscious part with separate logic schemes and these absorbs reality in diverging chunks, with the former truncated through narratives and norms and the latter able to amass broader perceptions of reality. These are held together and controlled through a governing mechanism. With the replication and establishment of the mind's mechanistic rules and dynamic constants, tested through a big data approach from public media, it allows for standardization and machine generated human thinking, a Virtual Mind.
A virtual mind is able to cover a wide array of applications, in particular forecasting of human behavior and decision-making. In essence, the whole socioeconomic spectra can be captured, including politics, financial markets and consumer patterns. Another area of potential application would be to augment various game software and of course, it would be applicable for the man-machine connect.
The book guides the reader on how to develop and produce a machine generated virtual mind in a step-by-step manner. It is a must for anyone with an interest in artificial intelligence, the design and construction of the next generation of computer logic and it provides an enhanced understanding of mankind's greatest mystery, the workings of the mind.Introduction.
The Theory of the Mind.
The Earliest Thinking on Thinking.
The Religious Perspective.
Sigmund Freud.
Carl Gustav Jung.
The Dual Process Theory.
Current Thinking.
Neuroscience.
View of the Unconscious.
Views of Archetypes.
Conclusions.
Endnotes.
Bibliography.
There Is Reality and Then There Is (Social) Reality.
What Prevents Humans from Perceiving Reality as it Really is?
Normal and Norms.
Zeitgeist.
Taboo.
Conformity and Groupthink.
Defense Mechanisms.
The Sociological Views.
The Shifting Social Reality.
Conclusions.
Endnotes.
Bibliography.
How does the Unconscious Part of the Mind Operate?
How does the Unconscious Express Itself?
Symbols.
Metaphors.
The Process of Abstractions and Generalisations.
The Thinking of Ignacio Matte Blanco.
Stratum One.
Stratum Two.
Stratum Three.
Stratum Four.
Stratum Five.
Conclusions.
Endnotes.
Bibliography.
The Mind: The Meta-Model.
Gottlob Frege.
Jacques Lacan.
Rationality, Irrationality and Emotions.
The Uncanny.
Gestalt Psychology.
How do the Unconscious and Conscious Interact?
Understanding the Short-Term Versus the Long-Term Impacts.
When the Unconscious Shifts the Zeitgeist Boundaries for Conscious Thinking.
Symbol Analysis.
Capture and Cleansing.
Relativisation.
The Components of a Virtual Mind.
Endnotes.
Bibliography.
An Object-Oriented Architecture Perspective in Designing a Virtual Mind.
Introduction.
Artificial Intelligence.
Expert Systems.
Neural Networks.
Recent Developments.
Mathematics and Traditional Logic.
Programming Languages.
Designing a Virtual Mind.
Hardware.
Software.
The Functional Model.
Sensory [The Reality Perception].
The Unconscious Mind.
The Conscious Mind.
Holistic Governor [Integration Logic].
Dynamic Constants Analytics.
Monitor Social Reality Limits.
Memory Storage.
Data Model.
Architecture of the Data Model.
The Logic Functions.
Flow Model.
Endnotes.
Bibliography.
What’s Next?
Index.