On YouTube, its at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMrzdk_YnYY
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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From: Rich Cooper
[mailto:rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 5:34
PM
To: '[ontolog-forum]
'
Subject: RE: [ontolog-forum] Self Interest Ontology
If there is any interest in this topic, here is a TED
talk by Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist, who correlates the self with
conscious awareness of self, locates it in the brain, and describes many
related thing (structure, fiber pathways, damage to specific regions …)
and how those things interact with the experience of self.
http://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness.html
His rendition from a neurosci perspective, is that the
information sensed by each body sensor, and processed in the cortex, visual,
auditory parts of the brain, is “made available to the motor cortex and
the hindbrain”.
That is where he locates the self, in two small
regions adjacently spanning the width of the brainstem.
His perspective is literate and informative and he
spells out his theories of how that perspective was justified in his view. I
propose that his rendition of the self is what needs to be nominated as the
official
SELF INTEREST ONTOLOGY
And I so nominate it. Now the problem will be to
codify it into assertions that can be agreed on. It would be useful to
transcribe his statements into text. Does any agree, disagree or has quit
reading object to this?
Damage in each one of those two regions has unique
results, which he describes eloquently as “consciousness” on the
one hand, and “paralysis” on the other. So I propose
this, in my own chosen form of logic:
type Self =
Consciousness : TBD0;
Paralysis : TBD1;
;
At this point, that’s all I have to contribute
about how to refine the Self in each of the ways that the good professor
related so well.
Refinements of TBD0 and TBD1 according to his
perspective would be welcome comments if anyone wants to make one. Are
there any specialists in the crowd?
-Rich
The regions seem to be paired parallel to the kidney
pairing further down in the brainstem than I find comfortable.
Together, a cross-section of the region would be the
size of your neck bone’s nerve bundle. That’s thinner than I
am comfortable with, but who would have known?
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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