© Matthias Rauterberg, 2009 1/26 Memetics and Morphogenetics: the Duality of Knowledge Matthias Rauterberg Eindhoven University of Technology The Netherlands

© Matthias Rauterberg, 20091/26

Memetics and Morphogenetics:the Duality of Knowledge

Matthias RauterbergEindhoven University of TechnologyThe Netherlands

2009


Titian. Adam and Eve. c.1550Icon of Jesus, St. Katherine's Monastery, Mt. Sinai (6th century)


The Expulsion from Paradise, 1740

A is-element-of PH is-not-element-of PConclusion:

D is-applicable-to AD is-not-applicable-to H

A E

H E’E

P

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Heritability of full scale IQ is 87% in the Netherlands (N=664), 83% in Australia (N=858), and 71% in Japan (N=606).

REF: M. Wright, E. De Geus, J. Ando, M. Luciano, D. Posthuma,Y. Ono, N. Hansell, C. Van Baal, K. Hiraishi,T. Hasegawa, G. Smith, G. Geffen, L. Geffen, S. Kanba, A. Miyake, N. Martin, and D. Boomsma (2001). Genetics of Cognition: Outline of a Collaborative Twin Study. Twin Research Volume 4 Number 1 pp. 48–56.

Nature or Nurture

Francis Galton (1822-1911)

http://press.princeton.edu/images/k8505.gif

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galton.html


Data, Information and Knowledge

data information knowledge

Creationdiscoverygatheringstorage

presentationorganization

communication

interpretationevaluationintegration

storage

producer consumer


Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543)

Nicholas Copernicus'De revolutionibus(written about 1520-1541)

Shortly after publication of Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World – Ptolemaic and Copernican in 1632 the Inquisition banned its sale and ordered Galileo Galileito appear in Rome before them. The truth of the Copernican theory from 1514-1543 was not an issue therefore; it was taken as a fact at the trial that this theory was false. This was logical, of course, since the judgment of 1616 had declared it totally false.Galileo Galilei

(1564-1642)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei


res cogitans - mind

res extensa - body, matter, etc

René Descartes (1596-1650)

Karl Popper (1902-1994) (1903-1997) John Eccles

World-3: knowledge in objective sense

World-2: states of consciousness

World-1: physical objects and states

about 350 years later…

GOD


Differences between West and East

Cross-cultural psychologist’s juxtapose Western analytic and Eastern holistic reasoning.

Western reasoning tends to focus on objects and categories, and is driven by formal logic.

Eastern reasoning embraces contradictions among objects in a yin–yang field of constant change.

REF: Nisbett RE., Peng K., Choi I. & Norenzayan A. (2001). Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic versus Analytic Cognition. Psychological Review, 108(2), 291-310 .


particle view field view

Knowledge

Particle View: Meme and Memetics


Richard Dawkins (1941--)


Most notably, the theory about morphogenetic fields of Rupert Sheldrakein 1981 reveal a substantial change in the way how we should look at reality. He developed the idea of morphogenetic fields, and has researched and written on topics such as animal and plant development and behavior, telepathy, perception and metaphysics. For example, Sheldrake began working in the 1990s on the alleged telepathic powers of animals, which he thinks could be explained by morphic resonance between two brains.

REF: Sheldrake, R. (1981)..A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation

Rupert Sheldrake (1942--)

Biologist Rupert Sheldrake proposes that our physical bodies are organized by morphogenetic fields, our habits by behavioral morphic fields, and our thoughts and ideas by mental morphic fields. He suggests that our conscious self may be a higher level of our being which interacts with the lower fields and, through them with the physical brain and body.

Field View: Morphogenetic Fields


C.G. Jung: the Collective Unconscious


The World of Quantum MechanicsEinstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox

locality

Albert Einstein

Nathan Rosen

non-locality

David Bohm Alain Aspect

A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen, Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete? Phys. Rev. 47, 777 (1935).

Boris Podolsky


Global Consciousness Project

Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Roger Nelson

Mindsong MicroREG

(video, 2:30)


Penrose – Hameroff ‘Orch OR’ Model

Stuart Hameroff (1947--)

Roger Penrose (1931--)

Quantum computation in microtubules

Orchestrated Objective Reduction


What would be a Cyclotron for the Mind?

Possible Answer:

- an interactive experience based on the story of Alice in Wonderland

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson1832-1898


ALICE-Lab at TU Eindhoven:


Stage-1: In the Park


Stage-2: Down the Rabbit HoleFlow stair lift

(video, 1:03)


Stage-3: Drink me – Eat meFive sides Cave

(video, 1:25)


Stage-5: The Caterpillar

‘Who are YOU?’ said the Caterpillar.This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly,‘I–I hardly know, sir, just at present– at least I know who I WAS when I got up thismorning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.’‘What do you mean by that?’ said the Caterpillar sternly. ‘Explain yourself!’‘I can’t explain MYSELF, I’m afraid, sir’ said Alice, ‘because I’m not myself, you see.’‘I don’t see,’ said the Caterpillar.

(video, 2:18)


Stage-6: The Cheshire Cat

‘‘Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. ‘Would you tell me,please, which way I ought to go from here?’‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.‘I don’t much care where–’ said Alice.‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.

(video, 0:19)


Let’s get aware about our connections to the collective unconscious…

Team Members

Sjriek AlersDimar AliakseyeuChet BangaruChristoph BartneckMarco CombettoRazvan CristescuJun HuElco JacobsJoran JessurunTijn Kooijmans Hao LiuJeroen PeerbolteMatthias RauterbergBen SalemChristoph SeyferthVanessa Sawirjo Joran van AartDirk van de MortelGeert van den BoomenTon van der GraftArrens van HerwijnenTijn van LieropChee Fai Tan


Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)

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About 230 years

About 230 years


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