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88 CHAPTER 4 The Brain-Mind-Computer Trichotomy: Hermeneutic Approach

FIGURE 4.3
Pioneers of schizophrenia and connectivity.
From G. Collin, E. Turk and M.P. van den Heuvel, Connectomics in schizophrenia: from early pioneers to recent
brain network findings, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 1 (2016) 199e208

4. TOWARD THE ALGORITHMS OF NEURAL/MENTAL
HERMENEUTICS
4.1 UNDERSTANDING SITUATIONS: NEEDS HERMENEUTIC
INTERPRETATION

• logic, rule-based algorithms, and similar computational methods are too rigid to
interpret ill-defined situations,
• hermeneutics, “the art of interpretation” can do it,
• hermeneutics: emphasize the necessity of self-reflexive interpretation and adopts
circular causality.
Biological systems contain their own descriptions, and therefore they need
special methods. Hermeneutics emphasizes the necessity of self-reflexive interpre-
tation. Both natural science as “objective analyzer” and (post)modern art reiterate