Conciliating neuroscience and phenomenology via category theory.
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology December 2015 Andrée C Ehresmann, Jaime Gomez-Ramirez
The paper discusses how neural and mental processes correlate for developing cognitive abilities like memory or spatial representation and allowing the emergence of higher cognitive processes up to embodied cognition, consciousness and creativity. It is done via the presentation of MENS (for Memory Evolutive Neural System), a mathematical methodology, based on category theory, which encompasses...
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.07.004 (opens in new tab)
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Phenomenology
Category
Multi-scale self-organized systems
Neuro-cognitive system