Physics of the mind: Concepts, emotions, language, cognition, consciousness, beauty, music, and symbolic culture
arXiv Preprint Archive December 17, 2010 Leonid Perlovsky
A review of mathematical approaches to modeling the mind since the 1950s highlights difficulties linked to the fundamental incompleteness of logic discovered by Gödel. A recent advancement, dynamic logic (DL), overcomes these past difficulties and is described conceptually in relation to neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy. DL models higher cognitive functions such as concepts, emotions, instincts, understanding, imagination, intuition, and consciousness, and is related to the knowledge instinct that drives understanding and serves as a foundation for higher cognition. Aesthetic emotions and beauty perception are tied to everyday mental functioning.