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ITOATTRACTORS
CONSCIOUSNESS AND ATTRACTORS
Topics to be covered: What is an attractor? Define mental attractors. mentapathattractors Define physical attractors. Menattractors Phyattractors Awarattactors Menterrain a multidimensional terrain of probabilities for Physipoints Phyterrain a multidimensional terrain of probabilities for physipoints
ITOATTRACTORS
Itoattractors refer to the concept of attractors for all the identity theory. There are forces that push certain itopath into certain itovenues and not others. Itoattractors can be any thing that causes one or more itopaths, itovenues, itofields, to be more likely than others. Itoattractors can be represented with theocept equations.
What is an attractor in mathematics?
It can be looked as a center of gravity. It is an area or point in space where a function seems to gravitate around. In a space there can be more than one attractor. This concept is very useful when dealing with change. It plots a function over time with feed back from the function. It can also be looked at as a process that utilizes the output as input. For the process to work each input must produce a different output from the input. If the output is the same as the input there it will stay the same and there will be just one point that is produced on a graph. Unless the input changes the equation. If the input changes the equation and not the output each time the output can eventually change. For a given equation or process there can be spaces where there are attractors and places where there are no attractors or no effect do to attractors. This means that no pattern will be produced in certain areas of the field. This same process can be applied to theocepts. It does not have to apply to only numbers or number processing
What is an attractor?
What is an attractor? A mathematical attractor is a special kind of mathematical function that has the properties of reducing the possible output into certain patterns. The function can use output as input and thus refines a pattern. The use of attractor functions allows us to approximate the behavior of real objects. The concept of attractor functions can be applied to theoceptic functions. Every mathematical function is a theoceptic function. The mind and the body is such a complex structure that a mathematical function can not represent them completely. There exist attractors for theoceptic equations that go beyond mathematical equations. Theoceptic equations give us another tool to deal with understanding and solving problems.
Why is the concept of an attractor important to the identity theory?
Why is the concept of attractors important to the identity theory? If a mental attribute or other physical system connected to consciousness can be represented by an attractor function then complex behavior can be represented by these functions. What then appears to be chaotic behavior of a physical system can be predicted by a function; represented by an attractor function. Each point on a physifield or physiterrain has a probability of being in a physipath. The points can map out a n - dimensional space. Mathematics can be applied to this. We can look at these terrains as surfaces where water or balls are traveling. The senput supplies the gravity or power to supply the motion and thus create the path. If we put a ball on this terrain with some momentum in some direction we will produce a path. The path is influenced by the topography of the surface. When the ball hits a hill or incline it can be forced to change directions. It is more likely to stay in valleys than to follow the tops of the ridges. We will find that certain paths can follow the ridges but that most will follow the valleys and this is the way with mentapaths and awarepaths also. Even though there are a continuum of possibilities some possibilities are more likely than others. These are caused by the structure and functioning of the brain. We can apply to a person at any stage of his life any senpath. If we take the summation of the mentapaths that are produced we will usually not produce a continuum of possible mentapaths. The mentapath will be concentrated in certain avenues more than others. In fact, there will be many mentapaths that can not be produced no matter what the senput is. What is the proof of this or the reason for believing this?
Mentinuum, the mental continuum.
Phytinuum, the physical continuum that applies to consciousness or mentapaths.
I am sure that like water traveling through a pipe there will be problems like turbulent flow with the mentapaths and physipaths.
DYNAMICAL SYSTEM THEORY
The brain is a very complex system. It is a system that is based on feed back. Many times systems that are mathematically modeled with feedback produce what is called attractors. They are areas in an n dimensional space that represents the dynamical system where the operation of the system operation seems to gravitate. This type of system is a convergent system rather than a divergent system. The brain is a complex dynamical system what it produces is the mind if the brain produces preferred functioning -- mathematical attractors then there will be preferred mental activity. What this means is that certain mentapaths will be more likely than others. Like the reduction theory the theory of attractors has a tendency to reduce the number of mentapaths.
Some examples of what this might mean is that giving a person a different environment, he will still gravitate to a certain personality. A farmer type personality would normally be drawn toward growing plants and animals. What happens to this person when he is made to be a soldier? He will experience a different world. But will he gravitate back to being some how a farmer? If this desire is centered around an attractor (which can be any concept that can apply) he will try to grow things -- a soldier with a garden or a desire to be in the country around plants and animals. Certain genes may not facilitate themselves in this way. But genes or groupings of genes may can influence the awarepath, behaviorpath, and the physipath that are produced given a certain senpath. A divergent personality would be one that wonders from one personality to another never centering on any. Pain my be considered an anti attractor where as pleasure is considered an attractor. This is because pain can make a person keep from doing something. Whereas pleasure can inspire a person into doing something. In this sense pain can be considered hills and pleasure valleys.
There is always the temptation to over simplify a concept, theory, process, etc. because we can never know everything about anything we try to simplify to the bare necessity whether it is for use (utility) or other reason.
The brain is a very complicated system. It is not a simple mathematical equation. But it seems that in certain cases the brain might be approximated by simple mathematical equations. The way the brain is set up is like a filter. In each level of the filter possibilities and complexities are cut out . For instance, There is not a nerve firing for each photon that inters the eye. Every neuron that fires in the eye does not stimulate all the other nerves that it is connected to .
Genes influence the structure of the brain. Which in turn influence the mentapath. Experience influence the structure of the brain.and the mentapath. The brain is a dynamical system. Small initial changes in input can cause large changes within the system. An example would be an emotionally traumatic experience. Such as the loss of a friend or relative through breakup death or injury. One way of looking at attractors is like a ball going over a terrain of mountains and valleys. If the ball is going along a mountain ridge it is relatively unstable many small changes will cause the ball to go down into a valley. But once the ball is in a valley it takes a large change to get it back on the mountain ridge. In this case gravity is causing certain paths to be more likely to occur than others. The brain has its structures that cause certain paths to occur more often than others If we
Output is behavior or the mentapath produced.
We can visualize a graph where sensual input is graphed against the mentapath. Versus different starting points.
Mentapath over time
Aspects of the mentapaths over time
Delienapath = a delineate part of a mentapath it does not have to be specific in nature or be tied to the brain parts and in fact will not be a part of the brain but an aspect of the functioning of it. Where the mentapath may not center around an attractor part of the mentapath will center around the attractor as the input varies.
What is the use of the concept of the attractor in terms of the mentapath. It can in a way explain why the brain will produce certain personalities under varying environments. It also would explain why certain thoughts reoccur. it would be one of the reasons that more divergent behavior is not seen with people. It might also explain why certain behaviors come to exist over time that would not seem to be generated by the environment that a person was rased in. It gives a mathematical view of the mentapath over time.
Given certain types of physipaths it would seem that certain mentapaths will be produced rather than others this is because the physipath is a dynamical system where there is feedback into the system. We can
How do attractors relate to senpaths?
There is processing of the senpaths, so that the processing can center on certain attractors and can produce certain outcomes that are not within the senpaths themselves. Patterns of consciousness can center on these attractors given the input which is the senput and given the processing
Senpaths
Sensepath (senpath) is a path of sensual data that a physipath receives since there are five senses there can be at least five types of sensepaths for humans.
The five are: visensepath for vision Visenpath
sosensepath for sound Sosenpath sesensepath for sensation Sesenpath tasensepath for taste Tasenpath smesensepath for smell Smesenpath
These five can again be divided down into subgroups for different purposes. The sensepath is all the information that the senses receives over time in a sequence form. The sensepath is the sensual data that a processor receives through its senses through time. What are the senses the senses are a connection of the mind with a reality. They divert the progression of the mind or mentapath. The physipath will change as the sensepath changes.
There are different levels of processing. There is what is available to the senses and then there is what the senses can and does sense.
GLOSSARY for senpaths
Types of Senpaths
Visensepath for vision Visenpath Sosensepath for sound Sosenpath Sesensepath for sensation Sesenpath Tasensepath for taste Tasenpath Smesensepath for smell Smesenpath
The sub paths are
Visenpath, for each color, for shapes visual differentiations
Sosenpath, for the different pitches, melodies, sound differentiations,
Sesenpath, heat, cold, touch, vibration
Tasenpath, each chemical that can be tasted, sweet, sour, bitter, salty.
Smesenpath, every chemical that can be smelled.
Every one can be conceptually organized into a group depending on the concept to define the term. They do not have to relate to the physical side of the senput they can relate to the mental side as well. For instance, they can be senputs that define the pleasurable part of the senput or senpath. There are many different types of pleasure so that each type can have its own senpath.
Glossary for attractors
Awattractors, Attractors for awarepaths
Mentattroctors, attractors for mentapaths
Phyattractors, attractors for physipaths.
Awaterrain a multidimensional terrain of possibilities for awarepoints.
Menterrain, a multidimensional terrain of probabilities for mentapoints.
Phyterrain, a multidimensional terrain of probabilities for physipoints.
Awatinuum, an consciousness continuum.
Mentinuum, the mental continuum.
Phytinuum, the physical continuum that applies to consciousness or mentapaths.