Abstract
In spite of paradigmatic advances in cognitive science, there exists an unbridgeable gap between neurology and psychology. This can be directly traced back to Descartes. It is necessary to build a novel structural template to explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. In the accompanying chapters, a topological model of neuronal organization has been articulated. In this chapter, we deploy the same model to formally represent the relationship between the brain and the mind. The proposed topological model of the involuted manifold employs a higher dimensional manifold to represent the duality of the brain and the mind. Thus, this model explains why the Cartesian split must be treated as an artifact arising from the particular topological framework of the relationship between the brain and the mind. The human mind exists, even though we cannot have independent access to it. The modified operator of involution ensures that the mind has access to the information present in the brain without total reciprocity. This partial reciprocal information transfer between the brain and the mind also tells us why the computation paradigm of cognition is an inadequate template for cognitive science.
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Chhaya, P.J.N. (2024). Nature of the Relationship Between the Brain and the Mind. In: On the Origin and Nature of Cognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51105-9_3
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