Abstract
MENS is a bio-inspired model for higher level cognitive systems; it is an application of the Memory Evolutive Systems developed with Vanbremeersch to model complex multi-scale, multi-agent self-organized systems, such as biological or social systems. Its development resorts to an info-computationalism: first we characterize the properties of the human brain/mind at the origin of higher order cognitive processes up to consciousness and creativity, then we ‘abstract’ them in a MENS mathematical model for natural or artificial cognitive systems. The model, based on a ‘dynamic’ Category Theory incorporating Time, emphasizes the computability problems which are raised.
Highlights
The “understanding of computational processes in nature and in the human mind” [1] has been central in the development of the Memory Evolutive Neural System, a mathematical brain/mind-inspired model of a cognitive system, allowing for the emergence of higher order cognitive processes, up to thought, consciousness and creativity.MENS proposes a common frame accounting for the functioning of the neural and of the mental and cognitive system at different levels of description and across different timescales
This paper shows how to model a “theory of mind”, in which a hierarchy of mental objects and processes emerges from the functioning of the brain, through the iterative binding of neuronalassemblies
We show that the degeneracy property of the neural code is the characteristic which makes this emergence possible, and we explain how it allows the development of a flexible memory, with a central part, the Archetypal Core AC at the basis of the Self and of the formation of higher cognitive processes up to consciousness and creativity
Summary
The “understanding of computational processes in nature and in the human mind” [1] has been central in the development of the Memory Evolutive Neural System (or MENS), a mathematical brain/mind-inspired model of a cognitive system, allowing for the emergence of higher order cognitive processes, up to thought, consciousness and creativity. MENS proposes a common frame accounting for the functioning of the neural and of the mental and cognitive system at different levels of description and across different timescales. It is not intended as a model of the invariant structure of the neuro-cognitive system, but as a dynamic model sizing up the system ‘in the making’, with the variation over time of its configuration and of its information. The conclusion proposes an extension of MENS to artificial cognitive systems, and emphasizes the computational problems which it raises
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