On Modelling the World: Some General Principles

Abstract

Neural models of the world, and of ourselves in the world, may best be pictured as representations of the ‘content’ of dynamic state spaces that encompass bodies and environments along with brains. These neural representations must be fractally structured and are viewed as consisting in the dynamic patterning of ionic shifts with their associated e-m fields. Calcium ion dynamics is likely to be especially important to modelling because of its roles in memory formation. Memories are regarded as ‘attractors’ in the dynamic state space of mind that mould re-creation of particular neural models. It is further suggested that conscious modelling is a property of what might be termed a structural or topological aspect of temporality that has a non-commutative relation to the patterning of (a proportion of) the energy eigenstates that subserve neural modelling.