title: Towards Topological Mechanisms Underlying Experience Acquisition and Transmission in the Human Brain.
abstract: Experience is a process of awareness and mastery of facts or events, gained through actual observation or second-hand knowledge. Recent findings reinforce the idea that a naturalized epistemological approach is needed to further advance our understanding of the nervous mechanisms underlying experience. This essay is an effort to build a coherent topological-based framework able to elucidate particular aspects of experience, e.g., how it is acquired by a single individual, transmitted to others and collectively stored in form of general ideas. Taking into account concepts from neuroscience, algebraic topology and Richard Avenarius' philosophical analytical approach, we provide a scheme which is cast in an empirically testable fashion. In particular, we emphasize the foremost role of variants of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, which tells us that, when a pair of opposite (antipodal) points on a sphere are mapped onto a single point in Euclidean space, the projection provides a description of both antipodal points. These antipodes stand for nervous functions and activities of the brain correlated with the mechanisms of acquisition and transmission of experience.
authors.affiliation: Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #311427, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, USA. tozziarturo@libero.it.|Computational Intelligence Laboratory, University of Manitoba, R3T 5V6, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. tozziarturo@libero.it.
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8426-4860
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tozzi
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, 75A Chancellor's Circle, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V6, Canada.|Department of Mathematics, Adıyaman University, 02040, Adıyaman, Turkey.
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Peters
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013850:Thinking / Q000502:physiology
keywords: Borsuk-ulam theorem; Brain; Mind; Sensation