DocumentCode :
3501241
Title :
Neural networks as a path to self-awareness
Author :
Werbos, Paul
Author_Institution :
NSF, USA
fYear :
2011
fDate :
July 31 2011-Aug. 5 2011
Firstpage :
3264
Lastpage :
3271
Abstract :
There has been important new cross-disciplinary work using neural network mathematics to unify key issues in engineering, technology, psychology and neuroscience - and many opportunities to create a discrete revolution in science by pushing this work further. This strain of research has a natural link to clinical and subjective human experience - the “first person science” of the mind. This paper discusses why and how, and gives several examples of links between neural network models and key phenomena in human experience, such as Freud´s “psychic energy,” the role of traumatic experience, the interpretation of dreams and creativity and the cultivation of human potential and sanity in general, and the biological foundations of language.
Keywords :
neural nets; Freud psychic energy; dream interpretation; first person science; human experience; human sanity; mathematics; neural network model; self-awareness; traumatic experience; Backpropagation; Biological neural networks; Humans; Mathematical model; Mirrors; Psychology;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2011 International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
ISSN :
2161-4393
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9635-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033654
Filename :
6033654
Link To Document :
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