The original Quad Net Model was published in 2006. This page maintains the chief substance of the original presentation.
Purposes of development are set forth in the 2011 draft of an essay (...) "How to Solve Free-Will Puzzles and Overcome Limitations of Platonic Science," a .pdf file (1.4 MB):
"Free will" puzzles are failed attempts to make freedom fit into forms of science. The failures seem puzzling because of widespread beliefs that forms of science describe and control everything. Errors in such beliefs are shown by analysis of forms of "platonic science" that were invented in ancient Greece and that have developed into modern physics. Static and quasi-static forms are suited for placid equilibrium conditions and relaxation processes. Linear forms, abstracted from geometrical space, impose rigidity and continuity. Such spatial forms fail to describe muscular movements of animals that have actual life. Limitations of platonic science are overcome by means of new forms with the character of time, e.g., a form of a beat and saccadic (jumpy) forms. New technologies of action and freedom generate and control temporal forms in proposed device models of brains. Some temporal forms have critical moments of transformation, e.g., a moment of overtaking during a footrace or a jury's moment of decision during a trial in court.Please see (...), a separate web page discussing the essay.
Recent technical developments are published in "Brain Models Built From Timing Devices" (2011). Timing devices are a simplified form of the Quad Net Model that has been developmentally productive. Please see the Timing Devices ( ... ) Opening Page.
The full set of ( ... ) Timing Device Links is listed below.
A formal presentation of the Quad Net Model is set forth in a research paper, with Abstract, Contents and related materials set forth on a separate ( ... ) page. The essential principles are shown on this page, e.g., through ( ... ) Images. The chief idea is that pulsing elemental devices are hooked together in a tiled spatial arrangement, called a Quad Net. A stream of energy flows into each elemental device and energy is periodically discharged in a pulse that can cause interactive responses in nearest-neighbors. There are ways to control the pulses and the interactive responses so that elemental devices discharge collectively in desired pulse waves and pulse bundles. Pulses are like neuronal spikes or action potentials in brains that drive the muscles of animals. The controls are like volume and channel controls on a radio.
I suggest that Quad Nets can be embodied in electronic form and manufactured in sheets, e.g., in a grid embedded in a flexible, stretchable plastic matrix with attached controls. Conceptually and in the Images, sheets of Quad Net are treated as construction materials. That is, "Quad Net device parts" are built from the construction materials. A Quad Net device part is designed to perform functions that resemble functions performed by parts of brains called "neuronal groups." Quad Net device parts are interconnected to resemble assemblies of neuronal groups, assemblies that are sometimes called "mappings." (Cells and activities in one neuronal group are "mapped" onto cells and activities in another neuronal group.) Of central importance in the Quad Net Model is the principle of Shimmering Sensitivity. The Quad Net Model is designed to generate Shimmering Sensitivity. Imagine that a Quad Net device is operating cyclically. Once each cycle, the pulse patterns and underlying energy configurations undergo a phase change, during which the pulse patterns change form completely from a meaningless static "blinking" or "flashing" into a population of germinal activity patterns that each potentially leads to a different actual activity pattern. As the cycle progresses -- passing through a critical moment -- one of the germinal activity patterns does lead to an actual activity pattern and the other germinal activity patterns are extinguished. This is a selection process that resembles a choice of action, e.g., taking one cookie instead of others. Then the selected actual activity pattern occupies the device part and influences other selections. Finally, the selected actual activity pattern is replaced by blinking and the cycle starts again. (See ( ... ) Image 35 and follow through to Image 38 showing the generation of Shimmering Sensivity.)When multiple Quad Net device parts are interconnected and pass through a critical moment together, Shimmering Sensitivity, a critical point phenomenon, unites the multiple selection processes and there is a single selection process extending over all the device parts. Critical point phenomena are nonlocal and able to unite activities that are spatially distinct.
The animated Image below shows very simple activity of a device part made from Quad Net material. It is possible to show very simple activity, but not more complex forms of activity, such as Shimmering Sensitivity.
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| The animated Image shows a hierarchical system of Quad Nets where a purple pulse wave in the coarse (large-mesh) Quad Net is driving green pulse bundles in the fine (small-mesh) Quad Net. It is like an elevated railway above city streets only here wavefronts travel together. As shown in the enlarged view of junctions and spatial elements (adjacent Image), the coarse Quad Net (blue framework and yellow junctions) is connected to the fine Quad Net (black framework with red junctions) using a 1-to-9 arrangement of projections that end in orange junctions. Red, yellow and orange junctions function like three classes of synapses between neurons; and pulsing elemental devices in the spatial elements function like neurons. (This system is based on Images 5 and 6.) |
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| The Images provide a visual and conceptual overview of the Quad Net Model. Images 1 through 6 come from the introductory Survey, § 1 in the "Quad Nets" research paper available on a separate page. Beginning with Image 7 ( Primal Quad Net), you can follow the progressive construction of Quad Net devices up through the Phase Transfer Controller (Images 30 - 35). Images 36 through 38 show the Principle of Shimmering, that generates co-existing phasic fragments during a "critical moment of selection." Superior views of Images are provided by computer, in contrast to Images printed on paper. Some Images of Quad Net constructions should be examined at several scales of magnification to balance views of collective structure with those showing granular detail. | ||||||||
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