MENTAL PROCESSING OF INFORMATION- Abstract

The paper is a general review of the problems of mental phenomena in the light of the general scientific theories which describe the physical and biological worlds, of the recent discovered possibilities of molecular and quantum processing of information, and of the new effort to build electronic brains after the model of the neural system of the natural brain. New philosophical ideas, not without some scientific bacground, are also taken into account.

The summary of the paper is the following:

1.  Introduction;
2.  In what type of world, described by science, are we living?
3.  Biological brains and electronic brains;
4.  The extension of the structural science into a structural-phenomenological science;
5.  The psyche of intelligent agents;
6.  Hugo de Garis’s electronic brain;
7.  The levels of information processing of the biological brain;
8.  The molecular processing of information ant its role in the functioning of the natural brain;
9.  Quantum information processing;
10.  Closing remarks.