Comments on: The missing hierarchical level http://charbonniers.org/2009/12/19/the-missing-hierarchical-level/ A blog on consciousness by Janet Kwasniak Wed, 23 May 2012 04:19:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Mariana http://charbonniers.org/2009/12/19/the-missing-hierarchical-level/#comment-3539 Mariana Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:17:02 +0000 http://charbonniers.org/2009/12/19/the-missing-hierarchical-level/#comment-3539 <p>Very interesting post Janet, actually it took me a long time to dare commeting about your ideas about hierarchies and stuff. I always thought that somehow we needed to link the different disciplines, like math, chemistry, biology, genetics, evolution and much more stuff. I think that is one of the things you are proposing here with a hierarchical kind of structure in mind, which I think it can be very productive and greatly enlightening for scientist, probably more than mine, which was about linking the different disciplines by somehow describing and picturing the interacting among them, but not just the hierarchical ones. It is as if you do an analogy with the representation of the language and meaning of stuff, one way you can represent them is by hierarchical categories that subdivide or just go deeper down, and another one is by developing an ontologie that relate the concepts and also might have inference rules and absolute truth that work inside this model of what things are.<br /> Hope you are doing well dear JK</p> JK: I certainly do not think there are right ways and wrong ways of drawing analogies - the more the better. Some people though have difficulty in thinking about the brain and mind because the connection between psychology and biology is not clear. Very interesting post Janet, actually it took me a long time to dare commeting about your ideas about hierarchies and stuff. I always thought that somehow we needed to link the different disciplines, like math, chemistry, biology, genetics, evolution and much more stuff. I think that is one of the things you are proposing here with a hierarchical kind of structure in mind, which I think it can be very productive and greatly enlightening for scientist, probably more than mine, which was about linking the different disciplines by somehow describing and picturing the interacting among them, but not just the hierarchical ones. It is as if you do an analogy with the representation of the language and meaning of stuff, one way you can represent them is by hierarchical categories that subdivide or just go deeper down, and another one is by developing an ontologie that relate the concepts and also might have inference rules and absolute truth that work inside this model of what things are.
Hope you are doing well dear JK

JK: I certainly do not think there are right ways and wrong ways of drawing analogies - the more the better. Some people though have difficulty in thinking about the brain and mind because the connection between psychology and biology is not clear.

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