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This is an article of the unusually broad scope, covering enormous conceptual territory. In the small format it touches a lot of topics and is able to connect them. Some of them are original ideas of Perlovsky, like his “knowledge instinct”. There is a lot of scientific speculations in the best sense of it, that is very intellectually stimulating.
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Ovsich, Alexander J. (1998). Outlines of the Theory of Choice: Attitude, Desire, Attention, Will. Philosophy of Action section of the proceedings of the 1998 Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy: http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Acti/ActiOvsi.htm -
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- How to cite: Ovsich A J.a very interesting article[Review of the article 'Physics Of The Mind: Concepts, Emotions, Language, Cognition, Consciousness, Beauty, Music, And Symbolic Culture ' by Perlovsky L].WebmedCentral 2012;2(11):WMCRW001135
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Is it possible to describe the major mind mechanisms in few pages? The paper gives a consistent description of mechanisms of higher cognitive functions. The ideas that concepts function like mental models of the world, and that emotions are related to neural mechanisms indicating satisfactions of instinctual drives are not new, the author should receive credit for properly referencing the original publications. This interpretation of emotions seems too narrow, many different psychological states and mechanisms are called emotions.
Similarly, language, cognition, and consciousness are too broad mental functions to be described within few pages. Yet, selecting few aspects of several mental functions in such a way that nearly entire higher mind functioning is presented concisely and consistently is a significant achievement of this paper. Especially impressive is a tour de force summarizing consciousness, beautiful, music and the essence of symbols and symbolic cultures. The format of a short paper may seem questionable for such a wide field. Yet this format makes possible for the author to achieve the elegant consistency in describing higher human cognition, touching on many topics, every one of which has seemed a mystery to the entire field of cognitive science, including many outstanding scientists. This seems to justify omissions and simplifications. This short paper seems to contain more answers about mysteries of mind than three years of subscription to Scientific American Mind.
This does not necessarily seem strange for those familiar with Perlovsky’s publications in mathematical, neural network, engineering, psychological, philosophical, linguistic, and aesthetic journals. -
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None - How to cite: Temkin A V.Untitled[Review of the article 'Physics Of The Mind: Concepts, Emotions, Language, Cognition, Consciousness, Beauty, Music, And Symbolic Culture ' by Perlovsky L].WebmedCentral 2012;2(2):WMCRW00521
The article is very explanatory and clear on an upper level of understanding. On the way down
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