The Scientific Brain Theory: How Does The Mind Work?

A careful analysis of Nature reveals that a perfect equilibrium of competition an cooperation is the key for any complex system fitness and success. Clearly, if the various parts unite and cooperate towards a common goal, the system will be stronger. Yet, who or how is such goal going to be set? Evidently it is no good to pull in the same direction, if the goal is a bad one and all efforts are aimed towards a wrong target. Nature seems to indicate that competition is the optimal form for a very complex system to determine what goals to strive for: several different prospective goals will be raised and compete against each other. Whichever comes out on top will be naturally selected as the system's next objective. Animal species are living proof of the optimality of this model of cooperation and competition. Indeed, the animal's brain will have all the cells in the organism work together in the same direction. On the other hand, inside the brain, various groups of neurons will r...

The following is the second part of Chapter IV-1 of "A Scientific Model Of The Brain: From Instinct to Reason, How Does The Mind . The first half of this chapter can be found following this link .  If a theory does not make testable predictions, it is simply not scientific, full stop, end of story. It is often said that before we ask how intelligence works, we should ask what is intelligence. Yet, considering that intelligence is not really any kind of 'thing' that we can interact with, does it make much sense to ask how intelligence works, in the first place? Would it not be more productive to investigate how intelligent behavior comes about, or - better yet - how to bring about intelligent behavior? The fitness of a scientific theory is determined by its simplicity and predictive power. 1. If a scientific theory's prediction fails, the theory can conclusively be deemed proven wrong. Considering these shortcomings, the crucial contribution of the scientific method is...

The following is part of Chapter IV-1 of "A Scientific Model Of The Brain: From Instinct to Reason, How Does The Mind Work" .    Since we can only reasonably trust a theory if its predictions are confirmed, if a theory does not make predictions, - regardless of how intelligent its author is believed to be - the theory has 0.0 (Zero) scientific value. 1. The answer according to which a concept is formed when our brain's intelligent agent has an aha moment and becomes aware of it, not only is not scientific, but is nothing but pure magical thinking and, therefore, most absolutely useless. Scholars in Human Studies adamantly reject neuroscientists' observation, according to which humans basically operate on autopilot. For some truly lamentable reasons, since the rise of monotheistic religions and still to this day scholars in Human Studies have always insisted to lecture scientists in the Life Sciences on how the world works. How could human beings possibly operate on a...