Paper: The Frame(s) Problem and the physical and emotional basis of human cognition

By Carlos Acosta

Abstract: This paper focuses on the intriguing relationship between mathematics and physical phenomena by arguing that the brain uses a single framework to order, arrange, and process basic information into more complex thought and knowledge. It argues that multiple incremental permutations of this single format eventually give rise to all abstract thought. The main thesis overcomes the epistemological complexities of the Frame(s) Problem by proposing that the primal frame of reference from which all conscious thought ultimately emerges is essentially an abstract representation of the four-dimensional properties of existence plus the genetically derived causal objective and the embedded emotional behaviours that even the lowliest cognitive organisms are born with, and which they automatically express as they struggle to exist within an ever-changing and often hostile environment.

Comments/Discussion: The thesis explores the intricacies of the “Hard Problem” from a non-computational frame based prospective. It is argued that the brain may construct a hierarchy of concepts (Piaget-style) from a lowly set of criteria imbued by physical existence, evolution, and emotional experience. Moreover, it is further proposed that the brain then incrementally refines, re-expresses, and then repeats the underlying format over and over and over again in a never ending cycle of creative discovery. The content and format of this article varies slightly from the original version as it appears in vol. 4.2 of the Technoetic Arts Journal.

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