http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=224 Index terms fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4633 We present a theory that surmounts the Cartesian Cut through self-reference, torsion geometry, multivalued logic, paradox, cybernetics, time-waves, quantum physics, the Moebius and Klein bottle surfaces, philosophy and semiotics. We introduce a Time Operator, and discuss its role in self-control, chronomes, will and a third-order time derivative. We apply the theory to visual perception and the problem of brain hemisphere integration for stereoscopic vision and its relations to micro and macroscopic non-local entanglement, torsion vortices and anticipation. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:34:35 +0200 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:34:43 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4633 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=978 After briefly reviewing cunent psychological and neurophysiological knowledge about cognitive processes it is presented a chemical reaction paradigm which allows quantitative analysis of their dynamics. It is also made a reinterpretation of the model in terms of dendrodendritic local computations as well as of somato-axonal communication at a distance. It is suggested the possible utility of this model for the understanding of psychopharmacological therapy of mental disorders. Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:59:30 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:26:33 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=978 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2490 We first consider the information flow and processing that is involved in perception considering the requirements necessary to explain the passage of elementary mappings to object representation and cognitive characterization of representations. The relationships between procedural implicit cognitive processes, and on the other hand, linguistic declarative processes is discussed. A reference to Marcus's results is made, taking into account experimental data and theoretical proposals, involving concepts of Quantum Chemistry made by our group. Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:01:17 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:23:12 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2490 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1282 The integration between psychological concepts and neurophysiological data pose many epistemic difficulties which create almost unsolvable problems. We used the strategy of reconsidering experimental data and theoretical concepts within the frame of reference of some concepts from Quantum Physics and Chemistry. The model of a particle in a box against a potential barrier proved to be adequate to describe and interpret behavioural data from a neurophysiological viewpoint. Concerning cognitive processes we used the model of atom orbitals and of isolobal fragments to build a model of information processing in the frequency domain. After examining some problems related to anticipation, hypothesis construction and transformation we tested experimentally some of these ideas. Analysis of EEG records using Lee method of cross-correlation with Dirac delta waves repeated periodically yields distinctive spatial distributions of patterns of periodic waveforms for cognitive-affective states- joy, sadness, anxiety, anger and mistrust. It was possible, using exclusively electrophysiological indicators in the frequency domain, to classify adequately a group of 35 subjects that experienced these five cognitive-affective states. Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:30:11 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:21:33 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1282 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4419 Few studies in French concern anticipation in language, and much of this research draws on computing and its algorithms which are based on the vocabulary of linguistics, using terms such as semantics and grammar. This raises a major problem, however, which is bound to the notion of anticipation, namely that of recursion (the role of the subject's linguistic competence and memory). These two interrelated functions of anticipation and recursion contribute to constructing sequences. However, while we can legitimately speak about sequences and concatenation in computing, this is not possible with respect to language, because language is based on a continuum, a combinatorial structure that is constantly evolving. De facto, language and its production rely on a dynamic and complex cognitive operation, anchored in space, time and the subject's knowledge: the speaking subject has to constantly adapt to this ever-changing space, time and knowledge in the continuous information flow. Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:18:28 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:18:44 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4419 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4414 This paper concerns human language, which is linked to the process whereby the human brain developed and adapted to its environment via the body, the senses and the intelligence of the speaking subject. We can say, first, that the subject's unconscious reaction to the impact of a sensory percept, whether complex or not, is emotional stricto sensu and physiological; a statement produced in response to this impact still pertains to feeling. A fundamental point in the problem posed here and one that entails an epistemological revolution is that, in self-awareness, various levels of consciousness come into play. We shall see how these concepts can be organized into a coherent and relevant whole in order to put forward the following hypothesis: the eruption of emotion, strictly speaking, anticipates the production of language. Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:17:32 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:17:50 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4414 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2488 Is cognition possible without a priori assumptions ? Many philosophers and physicists claim that a reference frame for the ordering of the measurements is needed, before cognition can start. Our objective is to reduce the a priori assumptions and to deduce a reference frame directly from empirical data with an Anticipation Principle: Put the measurements in such an order that the credibility of your forecasts will be maximised. The structure of space and time, obtained with this principle provides an explication for some phenomena of quantum mechanics Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:45:19 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:17:36 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2488 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2364 What we think is part of reality and at least partly determined by reality at the same time. The advent of knowledge engineering asks for a shift from lifeless representational and blind reductionist models towards a relational and teleological interpretation of cognition in order to embed the cognitive events in processes of meaning production or semeiosis. Such embedding is determined by the properties of perception (the senses) and the types of distinctions that can be made by semeiosis. The selection of elements in such processes that are formalizable asks for a model in which the phases that make up the process, the decision moments and their degrees of freedom ale clearly indicated. In this paper we will outline such a model for two levels : the level of sign recognition and the level of response to a sign. The decision moments will only be indicated. The practical importance of this structure lies in its potential to be interpreted as a methodolory for (formal) specification. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:34:54 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:04:46 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2364 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1344 This paper deals with the ongoing research on conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), introducing the notion of metaform, in order to link CMT with other dimensions of cultural symbolism, not just language. Specifically, it is argued that conceptual metaphors are types of forms that are created by various associative processes that can be called layering processes. Each layer onstitutes a type of abstraction that itself becomes a source for further abstract thinking nad modes of representation. Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:18:37 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:35:15 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1344 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3328 In this exposition attention is drawn to a fifty years old article of Ralph Holloway, the content of which is insufficiently known outside the discipline of anthropology. Holloway observes that the standardized form of the earliest stone tool artefacts, exposes a turning point in cognitive organisation of the hominid species. The arbitrary form can be understood as the introduction of the concept of "object" and the act of projection itself implicates a cognitive posture of taking distance. The latter could as well be understooda s anticipation. Apart of drawing attention to this most interesting point of view, some critical questions and remarks are also formulated. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:58:54 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:34:50 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3328