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From Primary to Conventional Science

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This paper is focused on investigation of the structure of the Primary Language of the human brain as introduced by J. von Neumann in 1957. According to this hypothesis, the Primary Language empowers all the human symbolic languages and sciences. This is the first paper that provides the details of communication between the primary and conventional science and demonstrates examples of such communication. In our previous papers, we introduced the hypothesis that the Primary Language is the Language of Visual Streams (mental movies) that operate via multiple thought experiments. In the first part of this paper, we introduce various types of visual streams including communication and internal streams as well as mundane and science streams. The communication streams include expression and impression streams. The expression streams pass information from the internal streams to the outer world via converting it into the strings of symbols. The science streams may generate new knowledge because they include the discovery streams controlled by the Algorithm of Discovery (AD). The streams may initiate additional thought experiments, program them, and execute them in due course. The streams are focused employing various themes including proximity and mosaic reasoning. In the second part of this paper, we demonstrate a series of thought experiments that turn a piece of the primary science to the secondary one, the conventional science. Specifically, we introduce several internal visual streams that operate with the theme of Pictorial Linguistic Geometry (LG) as well as the streams of Linguistic LG. Then, we demonstrate how the AD constructs a series of expression streams that operate with a mix of the Pictorial and Linguistic LG, gradually approaching the pure Linguistic LG.

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Stilman, B. (2018). From Primary to Conventional Science. In: Sgurev, V., Piuri, V., Jotsov, V. (eds) Learning Systems: From Theory to Practice. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 756. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75181-8_5

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