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Monday 25 January 2016

Postulates of a No-Control Theory

I will start by hypothesising possible postulates for a theory that could describe, but quite importantly not predict, the actions/behaviours of human beings.
Some assumptions can be made;

  1. For a prenatal human at the time, T_0, which I define as the time that exists between its embryonic state and its birth in which the human is able to access information from the world via it's body. I'm no expert on human development or any biology in fact, but I assume there is a point where a human starts to take in information, even if it is not placed into memory, the body experiences sounds, movements etc. to which it can respond to accordingly. I will succinctly call this time T_0, the constructor time, the reason for this will become clear later.
  2. As a continuum of assumption (1), no information, apart from that of DNA, is passed to the prenatal human from an external source before the constructor time. I.e, no memories from another human being are passed on. Any information that can be stored in the prenatal's mind can only be from their experiences after the constructor time. As to my point about DNA, as the body develops, it will do so following the instructions from genetics, which is passed down from the parents. This genetic structure will provide the physical body for which includes the mind of that individual which will start to hold new information at the constructor time, which will depend on the genetic build of the body.
  3. I assume that our thoughts are wholly dependant on our mind at current time t. By mind I mean the result of t-T_0 units of time of acquiring information from the environment, which may be altered by algorithms developed using previous information. Since our intake of information is a continuous parameter so is the rate of change of the algorithms. Faced with a situation at time t, the thoughts we have are a direct result of the current algorithms in place.  
N.B. You may disagree with my use of the word algorithm whilst describing human thought processes. There is slight difference to a computer algorithm in that they are not continuously been updated. I speak of algorithms that are highly complex and could never be reproduced by computer code.

This has been a start to, hopefully, a future project involving PhD student Steph Acaster and a fellow student and close friend of mine Pasha Ab. The above are entirely initial 'ideas' that I came up with without researching the current science in the field. Obviously this will be done and could potentially change everything, please comment if you have any ideas on the very short list of assumptions above. 
MT out.

2 comments:

  1. That's all well and good, Marcus, however you fail to take into account the inevitable occurrence of magic in the subject's daily life.

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  2. Hi Robert,
    I am interested to know what you define as 'magic'.
    KR
    MT

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