Software for the brain
01/06/2008
In my book “The Mechanism of the Mind” published in 1969 I lay out the behaviour of the brain as a self-organising information system. That book was approved by the leading physicist in the world, Professor Murray Gell-Mann who got his Nobel Prize for the discovery of the “quark”. He commissioned a team of computer experts to simulate what I had described in the book and they reported that the system worked as predicted.
So for the first time in human history we can design software for the brain based on how the system actually works. This is very different from philosophers playing around with words and language. So the deliberate and formal tools of lateral thinking were designed from an understanding of how self-organising information systems form asymmetric patterns. There is no mystery about ‘idea creativity’.
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