Announcing ... Bouton Ideation
I am most pleased to announce that after 40 years of effort we
are ready to go ‘on record’ with Bouton
Ideation, or BI for short. This
means we are ready to describe how a human mind is built by symbolic
experience, within the neuronal structures of the brain/mind organ. This means my “philosophy of information
processing, as it relates to business,” the initial college quest, can now be
shorten to saying BI. The value: knowing
how boutons ideate can make any person smarter.
Before I do go ‘on the record,’ let me first offer honest gratitude to Dr. Mark A. Smith for his work back in 1997, in 2002 and his most dedicated accomplishments of the past year (2012). A project of such magnitude, any new and really valuable insight, cannot be accomplished alone. I consider Dr. Smith to be an active co-author of the BI thesis. He is my partner. I am proud of this association.
BI was intuited by me years ago, and became clearer (more mechanical)
in 2006 with the quantum nature of consciousness. However, Dr. Smith, through his steadfast
commitment to the precise scientific process has made it much more real. Without Mark’s unselfish and lifelong commitment
to Corporate Construct Theory, Idea Field Theory, and creative work on Bouton
Ideation; this announcement would not be made today, and our world would suffer.
What is the announcement?
Simply, if you link Kant’s “thing in itself” with Cajals “synaptic bouton”
and the quantized and materially formative energy physics of “Quantum Mechanics”
then a coherent theory of human mental development can be hypothesized, tested,
and validated. A science of ideas
emerges. That science is called
Cognitive Science.
We name that theory Bouton Ideation (BI) because the boutons
are the mind pixels, which are ideated. Boutons
are the physical bits of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom forms which
we consciously see in all minds. They
form a community of ideas that collaborate, built for your life.
What is a bouton?
Bouton Ideation has two parts. It is physical (the bouton) and an idealized form
(the ideation). The bouton is the
physical part of the BI theory.
Sensation energy-waves harmonize and collapse, creating
synaptic boutons, as physical growths, using the E=MC2 mathematical
relationship. In growing by consuming
energy (a laminin molecular function), the boutons close the synapse, wiring up
cortical circuits, causing conscious thoughts and behaviors.
To commercialize the BI discovery, Mark and I have formed a company
called Boutonics, Inc. (www.boutonics.com). It is the atomics of boutonology. That is, it is the practical application of
this Cognitive Science. We find it very useful
to emphasis this atom-to-bouton analogy.
Both ideas and things are assembled and destroyed.
What an atom is to chemistry and physics, the bouton is now to
education and psychology. The bouton is
the basic unit of thought, the atom of ideation.
Boutons are used to sense and store data events. These data events are correlated into information,
so we know what worked in the past. That
information is transferred to future knowledge: know how. Finally, over time the
data-information-knowledge linkage becomes more abstract wisdom: judging what
to do. In Boutonics™ we abbreviate this
data-information-knowledge-wisdom linkage as Dikw.
Cajal was the first to see and image boutons. For this work Cajal shared the 1906 Nobel
Prize in medicine. Click here www.boutonics.com/reference/cajal-lecture.pdf
to download Cajal’s acceptance speech. This
explains a bouton and its contiguous nature.
Hebb, Eccles, Kandel, Deines, and Smith have all built upon
Cajal’s pioneering work. A bouton is a
real thing that grows in the synapse, changing idea conductivity. This means each bouton is a bit of mind. Or said another way, in modern computer
parlance, a bouton is a mind-pixel.
Why Quantum Mechanics
Newton created Classical Mechanics, Einstein Special and
General Relativity, and a group of scientist developed Quantum Mechanics (circa
1925), starting with Heisenberg’s Uncertainty.
Affect Mechanics, a new insight, is coming out of Cosmology (Dark Matter
and Dark Energy are affective) and to help explain the bouton energy tropic
movement in Cognitive Science (the affects of intelligent Opportunity).
Classical Mechanics (CM) is push. It measures energy forces that effect all
thing-vector movement, in formative, material spacetime. These rules do not apply to the small mass things
like photons and electron particle/waves.
At the atomic level, Quantum Mechanics (QM) measures and predicts the
probability of energy coming into atomic forms.
Yet, QM is not complete. As Einstein stated, after publishing one of his 1905 papers commonly name “The Photoelectric Effect,” that his equations were not complete. They did not model, predict, and account for the direction that the electron left the material. In a relativistic frame, direction of energy movement is additional energy (Doppler effect). Einstein argued his whole life about the incompleteness of QM, with Bohr and Heisenberg (to name a few), and summarized his thought in the EPR paper, while at Princeton. This energy became known as “spooky action at a distance.”
Where CM is material push and QM is probable becoming,
Affect Mechanics (AM) is emerging to explain the energy impact of formative context. The electron leaves and decides to move in
the direction of least resistance. Where
Einstein, in the Photoelectric Effect, is measuring the local factors, there is
a global factor at work. There is a
photoelectric affect. It is these global
factors that human intelligence can discern.
Why Quantum Mechanics?
Why must you have a full understanding of QM to be a Cognitive
Scientists? Boutons are affected by four
directional forces, they are quadrated.
Why is this? Boutons are real and
all real things are quadrated. QM is the
most tested scientific theory ever and it says all real things are quad force affected.
This means that ideas, the thinking process itself is
accomplished in quads. Or said another
way: if you can identify your ideas, about an ideal, and place into the quad
form, then intellect will advance.
Let’s say this in computer terms. Computers use a binary bit and are 2-tuple:
on and off. The mind is smarter; it uses
4-tuple simultaneous structures, called a qubit. This means the human mind is a Quantum
Computer.
That is why you must learn and integrate Quantum Mechanical
mathematics to understand the nature of mind, and its intelligent decision
making process. It is also why the
physics must be placed into and related to the ideological sciences: like
information theory, psychology, philosophy and practical anthropology.
Emanuel Kant and the
thing in itself
Type “Cognitive Science” into Google and select the
Wikipedia entry. This will give you a
brief introduction to this relative new science.
One of the first things to notice is that Cognition is an eclectic
science. That means it integrated discoveries
from many scientific sources. One is
philosophy. Kant was a very good philosopher.
Kant’s major work came late in his life (he was in his 50’s)
because philosophy is a wise science and wisdom takes a few years to
acquire. In the ‘Critique of Pure Reason”
Kant attempts to answer the Empiricist vs. Realist argument, then raging in the
European philosophical circles. Is the empirical,
a posterior, or reason, a priory, more real?
Which of these (the physical reality ‘that is’ or the potential reality ‘that
can be’ consciously perceived) is more fundamental to knowing.
Kant successfully argued that both perspectives are useful
and influential upon what is and can be known. Or said in ancient language, there is a heaven
(ideological) and earth (physical).
In this work, Kant introduces the ideas of the (1) thing, in
and of itself, and (2) our mental perception of the thing. Kant states and then proves that these are
two different things. The thing is real
and our perception of the thing is a symbolic image, carried on an energy wave.
Kant had little to say about the electromagnetic nature of
that symbol and its carrier wave, which is perceived and processed by bouton
developments. We moderns have added this
insight.
Why is this insight imperative for the cognitive
scientist? If you do not understand that
an idea, a piece of data, is only a symbol carried on an energy wave, then you
are not understanding that idea forms are really just energy density variation,
in framed spacetime.
This is a key insight.
All reality is “virtual” as it relates to cognition. The mind never has a direct relationship with
the thing “in and of itself.” Instead,
we sense, learn, store, and act upon the symbolic representation of the thing,
as we observe and interpret its meaning.
Observation is affective.
Or said another way, Al Gore did not invent the Internet,
Kant did.
Summary
Today we are announcing Bouton
Ideation, BI. It is a theory of mind
existence, in bouton pixels, based on symbolic processing. BI states that brain is the neurons (mainly)
and mind is the boutons (mainly).
Brain is nature, put in place by DNA and mind is nurture,
ideated into existence: hence Bouton Ideation.
With this insight, each person can learn how to craft and
refine the mind, to their design. With
this insight, each person can consciously create themselves anew.
That personal mental power is our goal. Enjoy that power.
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Caveat emptor: Click here www.boutonics.com/reference/ListofScientists.pdf
to see a list of 48 modern Cognitive Scientists and a synopsis of their current
work, as of May 2012.
In like manner, the bouton is not the only influential force
affecting mind sensing, storage, cognition, and decision making. The neurons are affective, opportunity for
life is affective, different regions of the brain are affective, molecules called
laminins are affective. According to
Einstein, there is even a morphogenesis, a “Spooky action at a distance” that
has impact upon what we all think.
Why give primacy to the bouton? Cajal tells us why. The bouton is the contiguous gate. All other elements, viewed from the
perspective of the bouton, are continuous.
This makes the bouton very special.
It makes the bouton the atom of mind.
The idea of a bouton is what we scientists call “a useful
generalization.” It is not completely
true, in all that we attribute to it, from all perspectives. It is just a really useful concept to
understand and further our objective.
If you think about and understand a bouton, and how they
quad ideated, then you become smarter.
That’s the practical goal of Cognitive Science. BI insight makes you smarter because you are
more integrated on the right point for you.
