A Logical Inquiry of Emotions and Cognition
bioRxiv Preprint Server November 15, 2016 Arturo Tozzi, Colin James, James F Peters 1 citation preprint
The mind is not divided into separate cognitive and emotional faculties; instead, all mental activities are logically equivalent. Using first-order predicate logic, the authors show that nervous activity is equivalent to mental faculties and that cognition and emotion are not separate functions. Every mental faculty necessarily has a counterpart in others, and seemingly different faculties can be unglued from a condensed form. Thus, the same logical framework underlies all brain activities, regardless of their boundaries or magnitude, challenging the common-sense belief that cognition and emotion are distinct.