Peter G Burton
is an independent scientific researcher pursuing two major themes, the fundamental explanatory principles of the human mind and human higher brain function, and the fundamentals of physics linking an explanation of gravity with relativistic quantum theory, for which detailed articles posted as PDF downloads at site http://homepage.mac.com/blinkcentral/[2]
He claims a scientific solution to the mind-brain duality problem [[Media:[3]]].--peter g burton (talk) 13:38, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Human Cognition: Cognitive Process Consciousness model (CPC)
editThe first is a quest for a scientific understanding of human consciousness. An initial survey, published in the journal Psychobiology in 1990 (Vol 18, pp 119-194) has been followed by a monograph on human learning:- 'Cognitive Analysis of Consciousness: the cognitive infrastructure of human intelligence' ("CAC2004", AIPL 2004, pp157) and a second on the development of the human mind:- 'The Mind: Theory, Practice & Problems: the cognitive framework of personal growth' ("MTPP2006", AIPL 2006, pp165). Both of these draw on a common brain-control and case-management model of learning, called the Cognitive Process Consciousness (CPC) model. While the first begins with the child's discovery learning in the 3-6yr span, the second documents how knowledge is generated and structured from this 'learning engine,' leading to a detailed and explicit articulation of the structure, perspectives and layers of the self-model from earliest childhood through adolescence and beyond. With CAC and MTPP as stepping stones, a final monograph of the trilogy:- 'How We Are: Cognition, Consciousness & Human Animation' ("HWA2007": pp552) was completed in June 2007. Building upon CAC2004 and MTPP2006, HWA2007 provides an integrated and coherent operational explanation of the the brain & consciousness; learning and knowledge; and the mind & the self as three independent dimensions of human consciousness: learned control; the knowledge transformation; and mental development, respectively. E-prints of CAC and MTPP, together with 'roadmap' posters and related articles and presentations are lodged as downloadable PDF files at the repository site homepage.mac.com/blinkcentral [4]
Consciousness as a system of processes
editThe many aspects of consciousness itself, the link to the human mind and the concept of self, and the relationship of consciousness to learning and knowledge has led to the formulation of human consciousness as a system of processes operating under a regulatory framework called pure consciousness, some of which operate under forms of brain control which are not inate but which must be learned. The Cognitive Process Consciousness theory by Peter Burton is such an approach, developed in terms of forms of attentional control possible over the brain, and the conception of the conscious brain as a time-division multiplexing system operating in coherent bursts.[5]
--pgburton 00:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
System Theory of Cognition: Implications
editThe competent real-time case management system for human learning of CAC2004 [the CPC model: 42kWords] is complemented by a structured and differential learning framework to account for the imp[act of experience and reflection on that primary learning in MTPP2006 [the CPC framework: 39kWords]. Together these form a binary model of learning, corresponding to perception and to reason as the dual sources of learning. This binary model fails to account for the role of explicit tasking, which in the CPC theory forms an homologous ternary layer of learning. This tertiary structure is foundational in the CPC learning model, and the reflections over experience that modify primary perceptual memory are also indexed into three distinct kind of segmented memory in the CPC framework of development. Together with the tasking 'layer' these three cognitive subsystems require a regulatory framework capable of operating objectively to allocate each of these three independent subsystems time and resources. HWA2007 [the CPC theory: 139 kWords] poses the regulatory and conditioning framework (operating to modulate and condition attention) called pure consciousness, and provides the basic rules for autonomy, animation and directedness required for the system to operate as a competent model of human higher brain function.
HWA2007 makes the case that the CPC theory of cognition is no more, but certainly no less, complex than the science of thermodynamics, as characterised by its four laws. 'Cognodynamics', considered as a system theory of constructive cognition requiring energy to drive it, operates in the opposite direction to the entropic 'arrow of time' of energy-dissipating thermodynamics: notwithstanding this reversal, counterparts for all the constructs required to develop the four laws of thermodynamics can be found in the CPC theory.
As the CPC system theory of cognition decribed by HWA2007 is a scientific conceptualisation of the system of cognition responsible for human higher brain function (but not the detailed individuated contents of that system, which are encapsulated in the templates over which the system operates), extant theory of knowledge and its representation was reviewed to assess its compatibility with the implications of the CPC theory. The review, '[Natural Knowledge and its Development' ["NKD2008": 82kWords], compares extant theory step by step--from the most elementary forms of knowledge and its representation--with the competence of the CPC system theory of knowledge management. It becomes clear that a new 'dimensional' concept for the characterisation of knowledge itself is admitted by the theory, a model which is sketched in Ch 9 of NKD2008 in terms of abstract forms of knowledge. The dimensional concept is turned back on the system theory of cognition itself to reveal a twenty-dimensional structure (Ch 8 of NKD2008), and tested in respect of the structure of fundamental physics (Ch 10 of NKD2008) which is simpler in being only 11-dimensional [the explanatory QSC model of coherent spin correlation is developed on the QSC page of the website repository, see below].
The fifth and final monograph of the course of analysis, called 'Cognition, Metacognition and the Self' ["CMS2008"; 82kWords] describes how the self-model develops and becomes authorised as the seat of consciousness, usurping the control function of consciousness.
The ability for the CPC model, framework and theory of cognition to not only account for, but fundamentally extend, extant concepts about the manner in which knowledge and knowhow is actually held in the brain, and also independently provide the objective (autonomous, animated and directed system theory) basis for the acquisition of the 'Self' [itself a unified composition of two experienced and familiar but separate senses of the passive/receptive 'self' (a.k.a. phenomenal consciousness) and the proactive/creative 'SELF' (a.k.a executive consciousness)], qualifies the CPC theory as an encompassing and ecologically valid theory of the human mind. Henceforth (from July 2008), the theory as unified and coherent body of work [running over 410 kWords] is denoted Cognitive System Theory. --peter g burton (talk) 13:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Cognitive System Theory 2008
editCognitive System Theory (CST) in 2008 now comprises five distinct analyses of the human system of cognition and consciousness: 1. Cognitive Analysis of Consciousness (CAC2004; 42kW) on a system algebra in brain control of learning; 2. The Mind: Theory, Practice & Problems (MTPP2006; 39kW) on the subject to object transition and experience; 3. How We Are: Cognition, Consciousness & Human Animation (HWA2007) provides an explanation of mechanisms of consciousness; 4. Natural Knowledge & its Development (NKD2008) on representation, and vector-attribute models of abstract knowledge; 5. Cognition, Metacognition & the Self (CMS2008) on the cognitive acquisition of the self-model.
As the slide-show referred below shows, CST2008 'completes the circle' by addressing the three cognitive barriers that have made consciousness seem mysterious, and mind-brain 'duality' difficult to understand. These relate to: (i) the issue of coherence (and so control) in brain computation; (ii) the issue of consciousness as a biological phenomenon in the brain; and (iii) the origin of the ownership we have of the sense of self.
On 27 August 2008, at a research Seminar at the University of Tasmania's Philosophy School, I formally announced the scientific resolution of the 390 year old mystery, as posed by Descartes in 1616, of mind-brain duality. The presentation slides and 2hr audio is available on the University's official site[[Media:[6]]]:
http://ilecture.utas.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=506
All background documentation, including explanatory posters and presentations, is downloadable from my website repository at http://homepage.mac.com/blinkcentral
[[Media:[7]]]
On 18 September 2008, coinciding with a research Seminar at the University of Tasmania's School of Computing and Information Science, I released a detailed account of Cognitive System Theory's development, and an overview of its content and significance. [[Media:[8]]]
--peter g burton (talk) 22:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
The Quantum Spin Coherence model (QSC) solves the mystery of gravity
editThe second theme of research follows two earlier decades of interest in the quantum phenomenon of spin through the study of intramolecular electron correlation and intermolecular van der Waals interactions. This follows the heritage of Planck, Einstein, de Broglie, Schrodinger, David Bohm and John Bell, and employs an explicit matter-wave model of spin-cooperative symmetry-breaking within electron pairs. The model, called the Quantum Spin Coherence ("QSC") model, appears powerful as a descriptive model in a wide range of sub-nuclear as well as atomic and molecular phenomena, and may be implicated in the originating physics of the gravitational attraction. E-prints and 'roadmap' posters and presentations are lodged at the same site [[Media:[9]]]
The presentation dated 10September2008 (Chemistry School, University of Tasmania) downloadable from the QSC homepage show how the QSC concept, with its attendant explicit model of spin, brings the fourth force of nature (gravity) into the modern quantum theory of nature. A complete reconceptualisation of the foundations of Quantum Mechanics arises when spin is introduced via QSC as a matter-wave phenomenon instead of being incorporated topologically.
QSC has major implications for the experimental program of the Large Hadron Collider (seeking the Higgs particle) and both major search programs for Gravitational Waves (LIGO and LISA), seeking evidence for the background field of gravity. For the LHC, no 'particle' less than a spin-paired 'atom' of (1s)2 electron configuration, e.g. He or perhaps a variant of positronium in the early universe, is capable of generating a 'Higgs boson'. For LIGO and LISA, search frequencies may find amplitude modulation of the gravitational field from binary pulsars, but not the background field itself, which operates in the TeraHertz range (near-IR).
--peter g burton (talk) 02:36, 1 September 2008 (UTC)