Thanks Jon.
Recall that my goal is ultimately a calculus for biophysics, in addition to a
logic constructed upon it. Following your suggested approaches there is no way
to bind the characterization of sense with response potentials. So, different
goals perhaps.
On Boole and Frege, I am using the titles of the books only to highlight the
overall concern of the authors, rather than the particular approach of each
author. I decided to avoid the psychologistic divide in logic in this short
piece. I'll review that decision.
Steven
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Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
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On Mar 4, 2012, at 7:54 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote:
> Steven,
>
> Even as a veteran of the behaviorist-cognitivist wars of the late great
> twentieth century, who tended to favor the cognitive side and who found
> psychology a compelling enough subject to spend a parallel portion of a
> decade taking a M.A. in it, I too ceased belaboring the usual questions
> of consciousness in preference to catch-all categories like "experience"
> or the "contents of consciousness" as a primitive concept all by itself.
> I gradually came to the conclusion that consciousness itself demands no
> explanation, there being nothing surprising about awareness per se, and
> that only the contents of consciousness require explanation in terms of
> other contents of consciousness.
>
> One point about your references to Boole and Frege.
> I don't think there is much chance of establishing
> a psychologistic approach to logic from either one
> of those books, especially the one translated from
> German, as Frege was decidedly anti-psychologistic
> on that question, and Boole's book exhibits little
> interest in the usual questions of psychology that
> others tended to use as a basis for logical theory.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
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