Cognition in Dreams |
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Dreams and religions are computer programs. They prepare their subjects, the individual or the objective mind, respectively, for future action. Using a metaphor taken from Information Technology, one might say that dreams are uploads, while the thoughts of the individual or the history of the acts of the objective mind are downloads. In dreams, concepts become objects of visual perception by taking the shapes of three dimensional surfaces, i.e. of, e.g., anthropomorphic, theramorphic, etc. ones. These surfaces obey to the logic inherent in concepts as Hegel described it in his metaphysics of concepts (cf. his "Phenomenology of Mind"). Using these surfaces as ontological basis one could build a computer of human intelligence. This computer would share the property of the objective mind, viz. to work error-free, although being dependent on empirical knowledge, viz., here, the knowledge of surfaces, for encoding concepts into these. In dreams, the (i.e. any) ego exists devoid of self-esteem. Such an ego is identical to the objective mind (always sensu Hegel). This emptiness leaves the ego as pure structure ("pure" always sensu Kant), and obviously is the prerequisite for concepts to become shapes. Mathematics predicting physics translates abstract concepts into surfaces. The ontological status remains the same, though. If mathematics predict the existence of a tenth planet, and if that planet is indeed found at the location predicted, then this is no proof that it exists. It merely proves that concepts can be translated into surfaces. No ontology can be derived from epistemic symmetries. To building a conscious computer this does no damage, because Deep Thought is merely supposed to think as we do, not to establish the world on a firmer ground. |
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