“FACTS ABOUT ‘P-E-M’ (Psycho-enhanced Memberships) YOU MUST KNOWABOUT”
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2003
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Conference Paper
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Cognitive Psychology, non-linear thinking, "Memory-Personality Prototype", "Info-Projected Being".
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Information Systems/Technology
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http://www.caiia-star.net/production/conref-03/
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-396-838
(Last edited on
2003/11/16 10:38:09 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
The study of the brain is not just a biological science; it is also chemical, electrical, cultural, psychological. In fact, ever since the Hixon Symposium in 1948, cognitive science has been regarded as an interdisciplinary field. Most people date the beginnings of cognitive science from this symposium, the title of which was Cerebral Mechanisms of Behaviour. Today, six major disciplines work together under the banner of cognitive science to explore the workings of the brain/mind: psychology, neurobiology, information science, anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics. Some academic programs emphasize information science, while others emphasize neurobiology. Traditionally, the brain has been defined as the subject of biology, while the mind belonged to psychology. That dichotomy became entrenched when Descartes supposedly made a deal with the church, that they would leave him alone if he professed only to study the brain and left the mind to the theologians. Current thinking does not view these two subjects as separate; one makes no sense without the other. Without the brain, there is no mind; with no mind, there is no brain. Recent findings in Cognitive Psychology have shown that thousands of freshly born neurons arise each day in the cerebral cortex, the outer rind of the brain where higher intellectual functions and personality are centered. Ever since German psychiatrist Hans Berger investigated the physical basis for mental functions and devised the procedure of electroencephalography (EEG), which became a standard diagnostic tool in neurology by way of recording human brain waves, electrical activity has been seen as the key to the nature of personality and memory.
From this position, the paper asks a number of questions. What if it were possible to register electrical activity and neuronal patterns in the brain such as to create a ‘print’ of someone’s personality: a data-produced “memory-personality prototype” (MPP)? What if such patterns and activity controlled in order to change someone’s personality? And what if new patterns overlapped older ones, allowed for the creation of a new personality print: an “info-projected being” (IPB)? What if this process was made available to purchase voluntarily personal forms of entertainment, whereby for specific periods of time one could steps into a fictional personality for fun? A “psycho-enhanced membership” (PEM)?
The author reflect these issues in his writing of fiction, taking the view that only through literature can one deal with the blurred line now separating cognitive science and science-fiction.
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