Work

Review of: "A Unified Psychology as Part of a General Social Science"

Year: 2023
Type: peer-review
Abstract: Through the unique "Algorithmic" reasoning, the author finds out that running of our thinking system leads to consequences like various psychological phenomena, therefore the thinking system and psychological systems can in principle synthesize into a wholeness where, through the same Algorithmic principles, a general social science can be established."How do you differentiate the "Thinking System" and "Psychological System"?If you combine these two into one, which means they are two different objects through algorithmic principles, as you claim, what are those algorithmic principles?Moreover, from the computation theory, we know that algorithmic thinking and algorithmic computation are entirely different from that of carbon-based thinking in our brains.As such, the data format, which we think is a protein-based structure, is totally different; hence, it is an altogether different system.Here is a thinking exercise: In which format and where do we keep the data in our brains, if ever being kept there?What is the transfer mechanism so that the data is transferred over neurotransmitters?It seems to be the only "bus" we have discovered. ALGORITHM FRAMEWORK THEORY"…that human uses multiple "Instructions", as the innate universal tools in the brain, to process information to compute or think, serially, dynamically…"We do not know that!Do you know any molecular pathways for it?It is not like silicon-based computation models like the Turing Machine and John von Neumann's model.Along with that, unfortunately, we do not know what information is.And since there is no definition for it yet, there is no way to measure it, and we do not have any unit for it either.Also, we do not know how an organic molecule, which is transferred by a neurotransmitter to a neuron, gets processed by a neuron!Therefore, a claim such as yours above, namely a serial, parallel, static, or dynamic computation that is taking place in our brains similar to a computational model that we know of, is a bit early at the moment, I'm afraid."The structure of "Instruction + information" as a new dualism represents the interactions between human and the environment.…" Please see the above paragraph.
Source: Qeios
Institution: Yaşar University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4389680296
Cites:
Cited by:
Related to: 10