Re: The fun with "categorization" 2

From: Just Playing (gms2004_at_lycos.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: 11 Jul 2004 19:31:30 -0700

gms2004@lycos.com (Just Playing) wrote in message news:<543191fc.0407070531.347b22b0@posting.google.com>...
> Just Playing
>
> If categorization is an accepted phenomenon what is next?
> How does the brain use the categories?
> How are categories reducing the amount of information to be processed
> by brain?
> How do categories relate to each other?
> The idea seems to be that by using categorization the amount of
> information to be processed is reduced but when you include the
> connections between the categories doesn't it actually increase?
> It must be another re-categorization along different lines that will
> reduce the amount of information to be processed.
> Is this re-categorization something like a value creation?
> It seems that the mental capacity per unit of time is limited and so
> it is necessary to create a process to compress the information
> existing in the categories to this limit.
> Is this a process where each category receives a value, maybe similar
> to assigning a price to a product?
> Instead of working with a lot of categories the brain may just do
> something similar to assigning a value along a scale and a sign,
> positive, neutral or negative to each category?
> And every category will have 2 characteristics, one that will describe
> a "something" and one of that will be a value, created by each
> individual
> And then instead of working with the specific categories and the
> relationships between them it works with these values and their
> respective signs?
> Or it this "value creation" or re-categorization just a result of the
> language, education?
> This seems to be a way to reduce the information to be processed but I
> suppose it is not the only one, and my question is if this is
> something similar to how the brain is processing the information?
> Something similar to replacing the concepts with values and using
> these values and their respective signs for faster processing of the
> information?
> It does not have to be values, it could ma anything else that
> resembles this type of information processing.

Just Playing

But how do we create values?
It seems that each individual creates his/her own values but the
process has to be similar.
Next is just a simple model that I intend to use as a reference.
I can imagine a "mechanism" and a "process" to describe the
"categorization" and "value creation".
As a mechanism I will replace the brain with sets of strings of
switches, each switch having 2 positions.
For process I will assume that each perception results in the movement
of some switches from one position to another.
This movement creates a new configuration of the affected switches,
and a sum, spread, etc. of the positions of these switches.
I will define categorization as the new configuration resulted and its
respective sum, spread, etc. of position changes.
The next step is to look at these switches and configurations and
assume that they have a "natural", "optimal" position.
Now I will assume that each perception will bring these switches and
configuration closer or farther from the "normal", "optimal" position
and this change will constitute the "value".
It will be a positive value if it brings the switches and
configuration closer to the "natural", "optimal" position and vice
versa.
I will go on and define "decision" as the process of moving a switch
from one position to another.
Next I will assume that the brain's, mind's function is to keep these
switches and their configurations between some parameters that I will
call "balance zone".
In this "balance zone" the number of possible configurations can be
huge but their sum, spread of values may be much smaller.

J P

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