Mapping the Mind-Brain Duality to a Digital-Analog Perceptual Duality
Could the abstract ideas of our minds originate from neuronal interactions within our brains? To address this question, we examine interactions within 'brain-world' (BW) and 'brain-brain' (BB) domains, which represent the brain's physical interactions with its environment and the mental interactions between brains, respectively. BW interactions are characterized as analog - dynamic and continuous, whereas BB interactions are digital - non-dynamic and discrete. This distinction allows BB interactions to facilitate effective, albeit information-limited, communication through categorization. We review existing data showing that cascades of neural circuits can convert between analog and digital signals, thereby linking physical and mental processes. Importantly, we argue that these circuits cannot fully reduce one domain to the other, suggesting that the mind-brain duality can be mapped to the BB-BW duality. Such mapping suggests that the mind's foundation is inherently social, offering a novel explanation for the physical-mental gap while acknowledging the coexistence of the physical body and the non-physical mind.
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