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The Brain-Mind-Computer

Trichotomy: Hermeneutic 4

Approach

Pe ´ter E ´ rdi 1,2
1
Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, United States ; Institute
for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest, Hungary 2

CHAPTER OUTLINE
1. Dichotomies.........................................................................................................79
1.1 The Brain-Mind Problem........................................................................ 80
1.2 The Brain-Computer Analogy/Disanalogy.................................................. 81
1.3 The Computational Theory of Mind ......................................................... 83
2. Hermeneutics.......................................................................................................84
2.1 Second-Order Cybernetics...................................................................... 84
2.2 Hermeneutics of the Brain ..................................................................... 85
2.3 The Brain as a Hermeneutic Device ........................................................ 85
2.4 Neural Hermeneutics............................................................................. 86
3. Schizophrenia: A Broken Hermeneutic Cycle..........................................................87
3.1 Hermeneutics, Cognitive Science, Schizophrenia ..................................... 87
4. Toward the Algorithms of Neural/Mental Hermeneutics...........................................88
4.1 Understanding Situations: Needs Hermeneutic Interpretation ................... 88
Acknowledgments.....................................................................................................89
References ...............................................................................................................89
Further Reading ........................................................................................................92

1. DICHOTOMIES

The term “brain” is often associated with the notions of “mind” and of “computer.”
The brain-mind-computer problem has been treated within the framework of
three separate dichotomies, that is, the brain-mind problem, the brain-computer
analogy/disanalogy, and the computational theory of mind. Fig. 4.1 visualizes the
skeleton of a unified approach.

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