comaze
- I'm a member of the Harmonious editing club supporting Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary, and Wikipedia:Forum_for_Encyclopedic_Standards
- I'm also a web designer and php programmer: www.comaze.com.
- I'm currently signing my posts as --'c' 23:00, 8 March 2006 (UTC) and -=-C-=-
Technical
- I'm an advocate for open internet standards (w3c including xhtml, css, ...) and open source software.
- Programming: php, java, ... I'm also interested in Ruby on rails, Unified_Modeling_Language, ...
- Open Source Software: GNU Linux, ...
- Human brain functioning
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
- Trans-cranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
- Linguistics
- Epistemology
- Modeling, logic and formal systems
- Alfred Korzybski: The map is not the territory / human modeling
- Alan Turing
- Logic
- formal systems, such as predicate calculus
- Bertrand Russell
- Alfred North Whitehead - logic, mathematics, philosophy of science and metaphysics. His best known work in mathematics is the Principia Mathematica which he wrote with Bertrand Russell.
- Karl Pribram
- intensional/extensional distinctions
- Type theory
- Ronald Langacker (founder of cognitive linguistics movement and the creator of Cognitive Grammar, a type of construction grammar).
- Memory
- Scientific Method
- Computational Models of the mind and body
- Neural Networks
- cybernetics
- artificial intelligence
- systems theory
- William Ross Ashby
- finite state automata
- Turing Machine
- See also, Computer science
Computational modeling
Computational models are often used to simulate specific aspects of intelligence. These models can help us understand the functional organization of a particular cognitive phenomenon.
- Connectionist/neural network models. Connectionism relies on the idea that the mind/brain is composed of simple nodes and that the power of the system comes primarily from the existence, and manner of connections between the simple nodes. Neural nets are textbook implementations of this approach. Some critics of this approach feel that while it may be true as a repetition of how the system works it does not have explanative powers, as complicated systems of connections with even simple rules are extremely complex, and often less interpretable than the system they model.
- Symbolic models
Philosophy
- Thomas Kuhn - esp. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant and his Critique of Pure Reason
- Socrates
- Plato
- Descartes, who is often called the father of modern philosophy, proposed that philosophy should begin with a radical skepticism about the possibility of obtaining reliable knowledge.
- William of Ockham offered an important alternative to Thomistic philosophy.
Approaches to communication and change
- Dr. John Grinder - New Code of NLP
- Stephen Gilligan PhD - Generative Self