Prolegomena to the Complete Physical and Mathematical Theory of Rational Human Intelligence in Boolean, Lagrangian, and Maxwellian Mode

Abstract

Book description: Rational human intelligence has preoccupied the author since the late 1990s, when he became acquainted with G. Boole’s Laws of Thought. But for a long while, it was not clear to him what he was doing: Cognitive Science? Linguistics? Logic? Philosophy? G. Boole seems to have thought that he was doing mathematics. Then, in late 2012, it became evident that the theory of rational human intelligence is a theory of physics with its own mathematics. Much is owed to J. C. Maxwell in reaching this conclusion. Later, in the summer of 2014, it became apparent that all of rational human intelligence developed in the brain by exploitation of a single physical principle. J.-L. Lagrange likewise derives all of the physics of mass and motion from a single principle. Meanwhile, the author’s study of rational human intelligence had branched out into mathematics. When SCIRP proposed to publish the resulting mathematical articles together as a book, it seemed opportune to take stock of where the whole effort is at by describing the developments of 2012 and 2014 in the book’s front matter and outline the five digitalities making up rational human intelligence: Contrast Digitality, Selection Digitality, Nexus Digitality, Certification Digitality, and Supplement Digitality. Rational human intelligence is the common platform on which all rational minds meet. When one walks up to another human being speaking the same language, one expects to be understood. And that in spite of all kinds of differences in terms of other types of intelligence, such as emotional intelligence, kinetic intelligence, musical intelligence, and so on. And also in spite of differences in terms of knowledge. Rational human intelligence is the same in all people. That is why it is mathematical. It is a kind of operating system. It is now generally assumed that G. Boole tried to explain how we think rationally and failed. The position taken here differs radically. He took us much of the way there. His theory would have been worth not one, but two, Nobel prizes in physics. Just as I. Newton described the motions of celestial bodies in the universe, G. Boole described the motions of rational-thought-and-language in the brain, the most complex structure in the universe. About the Front Cover (click here for front cover) The Greek text is attributed to Heraclitus and translates as “War is the father of all,” “war” meaning more or less the contrast between opposites, between what something is and what it is not. The five persons depicted are Anaximander (top left), Heraclitus (top right), James Clerk Maxwell (bottom left), Joseph-Louis Lagrange (bottom right), and George Boole (center). Their selection is clarified in the front matter and elsewhere in this book. Evidently, it is not really known what Anaximander or Heraclitus looked like. In the background, as texture, is a view of the ruins of ancient Milete, now in western Turkey, Anaximander’s hometown, generally regarded as the birthplace of Western philosophy.The following three images were acquired from www.shutterstock.com under the “Standard License” agreement: 1) Image ID No. 226881742 (“Greek Amphitheater in Miletus City with Honorary Seats and Columns”); 2) No. 88369543 (Maxwell); 3) No. 81841846 (Lagrange). The statement from Chapter 11 of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching means, more or less, “We work with being but non-being is what we use.” About the Back Cover (click here for back cover) In the background is a view of the ruins of ancient Ephesus, now in western Turkey, Heraclitus’s hometown. The image was acquired from www.shutterstock.com under the “Standard License” agreement. It is No. 259978859 (“Theater and Arcadian Street (Harbor Street), Ephesus”).