In Pursuit of the Functional Definition of a Mind: The Inevitability of the Language Ontology

In this article, the results of conceptualization of the definition of mind as an object of interdisciplinary applied research are described. The purpose of the theoretical analysis is to generate a methodological discourse suitable for a functional understanding of the mind in the context of the pr...

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Main Author: Vitalii Shymko
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Language:English
Published: Pereiaslav-Khmelnytsky Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University 2018-04-01
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Online Access:https://psycholing-journal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/136
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description In this article, the results of conceptualization of the definition of mind as an object of interdisciplinary applied research are described. The purpose of the theoretical analysis is to generate a methodological discourse suitable for a functional understanding of the mind in the context of the problem of natural language processing as one of the components of developments in the field of artificial intelligence. The conceptual discourse was realized with the help of the author's method of structural-ontological analysis, and developed in the mainstream of the system-methodological tradition of the school of G.P. Shchedrovitsky and intended for descriptive research of subject areas of interdisciplinary objects of scientific study. As a result of the structural and ontological analysis of the super-system, the relevant place and role of the directly studied system (mind) are determined, and its primary process and material are localized and structural and functional connections are described. At the basic level, the mind is conceptualized as an energy process unfolding in a spatio-temporal environment and accompanied by archetypal structuring of neural impulses into images. The genesis of the system is separately analyzed by constructing a structural-ontological matrix that reflects the initial stage of the development of the mind. The primary process is concretized with the help of hetero- and homeostatic dichotomy, and also the most significant features of the consistent transformation of the material of the system and its ascent to verbal morphology are described. The structural-ontological comparison of the functioning of the verbal intelligence with the preverbal level has been carried out. The transformation of neural impulses of needs into words, as verbal units fixing semiotic values is analyzed. Structural-ontological connections that determine the reactive and prospective characteristics of the functioning of the system are disclosed. The position of the chronological primacy of "semiotic readiness" for language with respect to the debut of the latter as an information-sign model of the environment is argued. The hypothesis of domination at the initial stage of the development of the mind of exopsychic functions over endopsychic ones is formulated. The theoretical substantiation of the hypothesis of the inevitability of the ontology of language in the functional understanding of the mind is given, corresponding structural and ontological arguments are given, including those based on the ideas about the information relationship between affects and needs, according to the views of P.V. Simonov. The arguments are presented in favor of the non-alternative methodology of A. Turing in studies of artificial intelligence.
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spelling doaj.art-83c3247afd064d58b255002f0dab56762022-12-21T23:20:15ZengPereiaslav-Khmelnytsky Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical UniversityПсихолінгвістика2309-17972415-33972018-04-0123(1)32734610.5281/zenodo.1211593136In Pursuit of the Functional Definition of a Mind: The Inevitability of the Language OntologyVitalii Shymko0Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University, UkraineIn this article, the results of conceptualization of the definition of mind as an object of interdisciplinary applied research are described. The purpose of the theoretical analysis is to generate a methodological discourse suitable for a functional understanding of the mind in the context of the problem of natural language processing as one of the components of developments in the field of artificial intelligence. The conceptual discourse was realized with the help of the author's method of structural-ontological analysis, and developed in the mainstream of the system-methodological tradition of the school of G.P. Shchedrovitsky and intended for descriptive research of subject areas of interdisciplinary objects of scientific study. As a result of the structural and ontological analysis of the super-system, the relevant place and role of the directly studied system (mind) are determined, and its primary process and material are localized and structural and functional connections are described. At the basic level, the mind is conceptualized as an energy process unfolding in a spatio-temporal environment and accompanied by archetypal structuring of neural impulses into images. The genesis of the system is separately analyzed by constructing a structural-ontological matrix that reflects the initial stage of the development of the mind. The primary process is concretized with the help of hetero- and homeostatic dichotomy, and also the most significant features of the consistent transformation of the material of the system and its ascent to verbal morphology are described. The structural-ontological comparison of the functioning of the verbal intelligence with the preverbal level has been carried out. The transformation of neural impulses of needs into words, as verbal units fixing semiotic values is analyzed. Structural-ontological connections that determine the reactive and prospective characteristics of the functioning of the system are disclosed. The position of the chronological primacy of "semiotic readiness" for language with respect to the debut of the latter as an information-sign model of the environment is argued. The hypothesis of domination at the initial stage of the development of the mind of exopsychic functions over endopsychic ones is formulated. The theoretical substantiation of the hypothesis of the inevitability of the ontology of language in the functional understanding of the mind is given, corresponding structural and ontological arguments are given, including those based on the ideas about the information relationship between affects and needs, according to the views of P.V. Simonov. The arguments are presented in favor of the non-alternative methodology of A. Turing in studies of artificial intelligence.https://psycholing-journal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/136mind, functional definition, natural language processing, ontology of language, artificial intelligence, system, genesis, structural ontology
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In Pursuit of the Functional Definition of a Mind: The Inevitability of the Language Ontology
Психолінгвістика
mind, functional definition, natural language processing, ontology of language, artificial intelligence, system, genesis, structural ontology
title In Pursuit of the Functional Definition of a Mind: The Inevitability of the Language Ontology
title_full In Pursuit of the Functional Definition of a Mind: The Inevitability of the Language Ontology
title_fullStr In Pursuit of the Functional Definition of a Mind: The Inevitability of the Language Ontology
title_full_unstemmed In Pursuit of the Functional Definition of a Mind: The Inevitability of the Language Ontology
title_short In Pursuit of the Functional Definition of a Mind: The Inevitability of the Language Ontology
title_sort in pursuit of the functional definition of a mind the inevitability of the language ontology
topic mind, functional definition, natural language processing, ontology of language, artificial intelligence, system, genesis, structural ontology
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