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Willard L. Miranker

2 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2008-2011

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Modeling consciousness as an adaptive phenomenon

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics March 9, 2011 Willard L. Miranker 1 citation

We start at the level of a bacterium where an observer feature associated with foraging measurements motivates introduction of a notion of awareness (a proto-consciousness) as a primitive, a dualist construct. The relative simplicity of Darwinian concepts at the level of a bacterial colony then leads to development of an analytic theory of perceptual consciousness that includes colonial notions...

Mathematical Foundations of Consciousness

arXiv Preprint Archive October 23, 2008 Willard L. Miranker, Gregg J. Zuckerman

We employ the Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms that characterize sets as mathematical primitives. The Anti-foundation Axiom plays a significant role in our development, since among other of its features, its replacement for the Axiom of Foundation in the Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms motivates Platonic interpretations. These interpretations also depend on such allied notions for sets as pictures, graphs,...