From: Venkata Rayudu Posina <posinavrayudu@gmail.com>
To: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: "MENS: a categorical model for Emergence and Consciousness" by Andrée Ehresmann
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:13:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1l2l8c-0007eS-F6@rr.mta.ca> (raw)
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
Friday, January 22
15:00 Berlin Time
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