Re: categories: "MENS: a categorical model for Emergence and Consciousness" by Andrée Ehresmann

[Venkata Rayudu Posina <posinavrayudu@gmail.com>]

Professor Andrée Ehresmann's seminar recording will be available at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Eq7alQ9gJgAVhVS3IcvQw

Mathematical Consciousness Science website:

https://seminar.math-consciousness.org/

thank you,
posina

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 6:55 AM Venkata Rayudu Posina
<posinavrayudu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Happy New Year :-)
>
> I thought you might find the upcoming seminar by Professor Andrée
> Ehresmann interesting.
>
> thanking you,
> yours truly,
> posina
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> Andrée Ehresmann
>
> MENS: a categorical model for Emergence and Consciousness
>
> Abstract:
>
> How do mental processes up to consciousness arise from the functioning
> of the brain? That is the question raised in MENS, an application to
> neuro-cognitive systems of the categorical model MES [1]. It is
> constructed as a Hierarchical Evolutive System having for level 0 the
> Evolutive System Neur (= sheaf of 'neural categories'). Its higher
> level components, called cat(egory)-neurons, are constructed via
> successive complexification processes of Neur. A cat-neuron represents
> a 'mental object' modeled as the colimit of a neural pattern it may
> activate; it has multiple "physical realizabilities" due to Edelman's
> "degeneracy of the neural code", which we model by the 'Multiplicity
> Principle'. This MP allows studying emergent properties in MENS and
> showing they support an "emergentist reductionism" (in the sense of
> Mario Bunge). MP also allows for the development of a
> Neurophenomenology (in the sense of Varela).
>
> The dynamic of MENS is controlled by a network of 'co-regulators',
> each operating on its own landscape. Through successive
> complexificaions they develop a robust though flexible Memory, with a
> higher level, the Archetypal Core. This AC plays a main role for
> consciousness by allowing the formation of a "Global Workshop" in
> which a retrospection/prospection process can detect conscious events.
>
> [1] Ehresmann & Vanbremeersch, Memory Evolutive Systems, Elsevier 2007
>
> Andrée Ehresmann is Emeritus Professor at the 'Universiité de Picardie
> Jules Verne' (where she was Professor since 1968), attached to its
> LAMFA (CNRS Unit). She is a pure mathematician, with an initial
> formation in Analysis and Control systems where she introduced
> categorical methods. In the late 60's she developed, together with
> Charles Ehresmann (her late husband), sketch theory and internal (e.g.
> multiple) categories. Since the 90's she has been developing the
> 'Memory Evolutive Systems' (MES) together with Jean-Paul Vanbremeersch
> (a physician), a categorical model for dynamic hierarchical
> multi-agent systems such as biological or social systems. MENS is an
> application of MES to neuro-cognitive systems.
>
> This talk will take place on
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> Friday, January 22
>
> 15:00 Berlin Time
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