title: Number created by the interaction between consciousness and memory: a mathematical basis for preafference.
abstract: I would like to deal with a process that numbers are generated by the interaction between consciousness and memory, associated with time with a finite width. It is pointed out that this process can be related with the emergence of preafference. It is concluded that only humans can create numbers, whereas animals simply produce 'random' sequences of symbols because they lack intentionality to search for an appropriate internal observation window that makes intention and memory compatible.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. tsuda@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tsuda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015984:Causality; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008390:Markov Chains; D008433:Mathematics; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D008959:Models, Neurological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013995:Time; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology