Neural Mechanisms of the Mind, Aristotle, Zadeh, and fMRI

作者：Perlovsky Leonid I^*

来源：IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2010, 21(5): 718-733.

DOI：10.1109/TNN.2010.2041250

• Brain imaging
• computational complexity
• dynamic logic
• emotions
• fuzzy logic
• Godel
• imagination
• instincts
• intelligence
• intuition
• knowledge instinct
• logic
• mind
• modeling fields
• neural

Processes in the mind: perception, cognition, concepts, instincts, emotions, and higher cognitive abilities for abstract thinking, beautiful music are considered here within a neural modeling fields (NMFs) paradigm. Its fundamental mathematical mechanism is a process "from vague-fuzzy to crisp," called dynamic logic (DL). This paper discusses why this paradigm is necessary mathematically, and relates it to a psychological description of the mind. Surprisingly, the process from " vague to crisp" corresponds to Aristotelian understanding of mental functioning. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measurements confirmed this process in neural mechanisms of perception.

• 出版日期2010-5