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A Close Study Of The Pioneering Efforts Of Princeton Physicist J. J. Hopfield’s Mathematical Theory Of The Mammalian Brain, Is Necessary To Understand How => In Response To Life’s Problems Coming At Us => Our Problem Solving Brain, Has The Ability To, Automatically, Spontaneously, Generate, Construct, Create Into Conscious Mind, Best Or Near Best Solutions (Answers),

… OF COURSE, IT IS A FIRST ORDER PUZZLE, Just How The Above Is At All Possible (Even Indeed Thinkable), For A Physical Biological Brain, To Accomplish This!!
… AND THE ANSWER TO THIS PUZZLE, Is Factually And Mathematically Established by the Physics Theory of Princeton Physicist J. J Hopfield. To understand just how this could be possible, please read below =>

Physicist J J Hopfield, Provides a Clear Mathematically Established Foundation For EXPLANING, Just How A Physical Biological Brain, Can Accomplish What We Know Actually Happens. … Professor Hopfield’s Theory Gives Us A Needed & Rock Bottom Basis & Proof For ANY “Theory Explanation Of How Our Mind Works”. And thus indeed Professor Hopfield Indeed Shows Us That A Coherent Theory of Mind Is Thinkable, & Indeed Ultimately Possible.

… TO UNDERSTAND MIND, THE ABSOLUTELY MOST VITAL CLUE Is Supplied By Princeton Theoretical Physicist J. J. Hopfield’s Neuron Network Theory. =>
… The Hopfield Physics Theory, with its Mathematical Proof, tells us in broad brush strokes how a collection of interconnected neurons automatically, spontaneously, unsupervised, following its own rules, indeed might truly be able to find optimal, “Best Or Near Best” Solutions (Answers).
… In addition, Hopfield’s Physics & Mathematical Theory, With Its Mathematical Proof => Solidly establishes how a network of neurons will produce a good, but not perfect, result very quickly. For a biological organism, this is clearly an ecologically advantageous trade off … (This is in contrast to the usual digital computer that will produce a Perfect, highly accurate, result but may take a very long time on certain problems).

Prof Hopfield’s Theory Can Be Introduced By An Analogy =>

THIS ACTION SHOULD BE SEEN AS ANALOGOUS TO =>

To learn More Details About Hopfield Theory =>
…In this Seminar I gave a brief simplified overview of Professor Hopfield’s Mathematical Physics Theory of Mammalian Brain Operation which shows us how our Mind Works:
… This above Blue Link will take you to My MPPS Article => “Memory, Perception, Insight, and Problem Solving – AHA---!!!” This is A Fun, Easy To Read Introduction To The Essentials Of My Theory Explanation of How Our Mind Works, Please Study:
This above Blue Link will ALSO REALLY Help You Learn A Deep, Full Understanding Of The Flash Of Insight Phenomena And Other Similar Mental Arrivals (such as => AHA Suddenly Realized, It Hit Me. Light-Bulb, Lightning Bolt, Bolt-From-The-Blue, It-Just-Dawned-On-Me, Epiphany, Etc) : You must learn this understanding, and appreciate the reasons why, because this AHA Experience (and the brain machinery which creates it), is what my Theory (Explanation) is totally built around. => As You Will See => It Is Important For YOU, To Experience Flash Of Insight AHA’s First Hand, And Clearly Observe VITAL Important Facts, As Follows =>

SIDE NOTE: The Above-Mentioned “Re-Construct” Relates To Modernism’s So Named “Constructivism”, Or More Properly “Constructivist Epistemology”. '''
… “Constructivist Epistemology is a branch, in philosophy of science, maintaining that natural science consists of mental constructs that are constructed with the aim of explaining sensory experience (or measurements) of natural world. According to it, scientific knowledge is constructed by the scientific community, seeking to measure and construct models of the natural world.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology

A CONSTRUCTIVIST BOTTOM LINE, FOR THIS PAGE DOWN TO THIS POINT =>
… As Robert Pirsig Says =>
"…Quality is the continuing stimulus which causes us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it."

Click Here For =>Complete Discussion Of Topic Of Constructivism, Including: Details, & Further Explanations For Henry Gurr’s “ List Of Mental Arrivals. ” …. Here You Will Learn More About Mental Construction, Constructivist Thinking, & Constructivist Epistemology. Plus A Full Expounding Of Just What Henry Gurr Means By His Specialized Term “Mental Arrival”.

To Repeat => Our Problem Solving Brain Generates CONSTRUCTS Creates “Reality”, Or Better Said “Constructs In Our Mind’s Eye, The World Around Us!!”. “Every last bit of it!” As Robert Pirsig Would Say.

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SUMMARY OF CONSTRUCTIVISM =>
… As Viewed By Constructivism, Our Problem Solving Brain Generates, Constructs, Creates => Solutions (Answers) To The “Problems of Life Coming At Us”, Which Suddenly Automatically Spontaneously Mentally Arrival Into Conscious Mind!
… These Are Examples of the “Stepping Stones” Used By All Humans To Generate, Create,-Construct,-Build, An Entire Self-Organized Mental-World.
… In Other Words => Our Problem Solving Brain Generates Constructs Creates “Reality”, Or Better Said “Construct In Our Mind’s Eye, The World Around Us”.
… It is hoped that the reader will realize that this Self-Geneated, Self-Constructed, Self-Ceated, Reality (in total), is vitally necessary. (and corollary) to assembling a properly self-organized behavior, plus “Primary Consciousness , '' in the “Building, Constructing, Creating, & Getting-On-With-Life”!!!
… As Robert Pirsig Says =>
"…Quality is the continuing stimulus which causes us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it."
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… Moreover, this automatic, spontaneous, self-organized behavior, comes from self-built Problem Solving Brain Machinery, is a result of our evolutionary heritage, and is in common with all animals (or at least mammals). Survival is thus accomplished.
… To see how these admittedly fantastic assertions (really hypothesis), could be true, the reader must have a good understanding of the pioneering efforts of Princeton Physicist J. J. Hopfield. This document below, will discuss at length, why Hopfield’s work is important, and how Professor Hopfield’s Mathematical Theory of the Mammalian Brain, provides the solid mathematical based secure foundation, for what could be called => “A Strikingly Different New Science of How Our Mind Works", => Learn More Here =>
… In this Seminar I gave a brief simplified overview of Professor Hopfield’s Mathematical Physics Theory of Mammalian Brain Operation which shows us how our Mind Works:
… This above-mentioned Seminar, was presented In My 1987 Seminar '' “Memory, Perception, Insight, And Flash Of Insight Problem Solving [=*** AHA!! *** ” ''

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OVERALL SUMMARY =>:For The Above Stated Reasons, I Believe That The Princeton Physicist J. J. Hopfield Ideas (And Theory), Are An Exceedingly Important Explanation Of How => All These Above-Mentioned, Mind-Brain Actions Are Indeed Possible:

...And Further, Professor Hopfield’s Theory SHOWS, Us => HOW Our Mind-Brain Accomplishes => '''

Thus, Physicist J J Hopfield’s Theory Provides =>
… A Clear Mathematically Established Foundation For Understanding =>Just How A Physical Biological Brain, Can Accomplish What We Know Actually Happens. … Indeed, Professor Hopfield’s Theory Gives Us A Needed & Rock Bottom Basis & Proof For ANY “Theory Explanation Of How Our Mind Works”.
… Professor Hopfield Indeed Shows Us That A Coherent Theory of Mind Is Thinkable, & Indeed Ultimately Possible,
… And I believe this, in turn, will open up "New Science of Mind" with a potential for a Brain Science Paradigm Shift of similar to that of => Charles Darwin's book "Origin of the Species". And I don't say this lightly!

Moreover, I believe these ideas (Like Darwin’s 1859) are the leading edge of yet another “Copernican Inversion!! The term “Copernican Inversion” is in Robert Pirsig’s book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” (ZMM). In Ch 11, Robert Pirsig quotes Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason”, which discussed such a major change in scientific point-of-view.
(Pirsig, following Kant, called such major changes a “Copernican Revolution”, or a “Copernican Inversion” where => “The objective world producing our sense data did not change, but our a priori concept of it was turned inside out. The effect was overwhelming”. (You can find Pirsig’s discussion in his “High- Country of the Mind”, overview of philosophers, on p 119, of his ZMM Book.)

YES: I believe Professor Hopfield’s Theory is a New Copernican Inversion, that broadly helps us understand how =>

And Thus A Close Study Of The Pioneering Efforts Of Princeton Physicist J. J. Hopfield’s Mathematical Theory Of The Mammalian Brain, Is Necessary To Understood The Workings Of The Human Mind!

Also, a good full Understanding of both Pirsig & Hopfield, should prepare you for the remainder of this page below.

Let me know what you think.

Sincerely Henry Gurr

The Hopfield Theory of the Human Brain, Is Entirely Consistent With The Findings of Gestalt Psychology:

… I just discovered this introductory summary statement in Wikipedia and instantly realized you, dear reader, should be aware of it. And =>

An Important Excerpt from Wikipedia’s Page on Gestalt Psychology,
… " Gestalt psychology or gestaltism (German: Gestalt "shape, form") is a theory of mind of the Berlin School. The central principle of gestalt psychology is that the mind forms a global whole with self-organizing tendencies. This principle maintains that the human mind considers objects in their entirety before, or in parallel with, perception of their individual parts; suggesting the whole is other than the sum of its parts. Gestalt psychology tries to understand the laws of our ability to acquire and maintain meaningful perceptions in an apparently chaotic world.”
… “In the domain of perception, Gestalt psychologists stipulate that perceptions are the products of complex interactions among various stimuli. Contrary to the behaviorist approach to understanding the elements of cognitive processes, gestalt psychologists sought to understand their organization (Carlson and Heth, 2010). The gestalt effect is the capability of our brain to generate whole forms, particularly with respect to the visual recognition of global figures instead of just collections of simpler and unrelated elements (points, lines, curves...).”
… “In psychology, gestaltism is often opposed to structuralism. The phrase The whole is other than the sum of the parts is often used when explaining gestalt theory, though there is a common mistranslation of Kurt Koffka's original phrase to ‘The whole is greater than the sum of the parts'. Gestalt theory allows for the breakup of elements from the whole situation into what it really is.”
To Read The Whole Wikipedia Page On Gestalt Psychology, Click Here.

The Hopfield Neuron Network Theory Shows Us How => A Problem Solving Brain, That Automatically, Spontaneously, Finds => Best Or Near Best Partial Fit Solutions (Answers) => Is Entirely Consistent With Robert Pirsig’s Conclusions Concerning His => Quality '''

In The Next Below italicized ZMM Book Quoted Passages A), B), C), and D)., We Learn Of Robert Pirsig’s => Meaning Of His Word Quality, As Presented In His Book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” (ZMM).

…'And As A Person Reads Mr Pirsig’s Book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” '' Eventually They Will Begin To See That His Quality => Can Be Most Usefully Understood As An Operation Of Our Mind!!
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… NOW, with the above understandig, please read Mr. Pirsig’s below italicized ZMM Book Quoted Passages A), B), C), and D).
And As You Read, Please =>

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A) "…Quality is the continuing stimulus which {+causes us to {+create the world in “which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it." …”Men invent responses to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what they themselves are. … It’s an analogue to what you already know. It has to be. It can’t be anything else. And the mythos grows this way.” ''
… “By analogies to what is known before. The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues. These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last bit of it. The Quality is the track that directs the train. What is outside the train, to either side—that is the terra incognita of the insane. “The facts do not exist until value {Quality] has created them. If your values are rigid you can’t really learn new facts.

B) “…Quality is not just some abstraction; it's something that guides your life every minute of every second [of every day] even though you do not intellectually recognize that it is so”…..”When you're trying to {+create a painting or a piece of music you've got to have this feeling of what's better. ““And just this feeling of what is better, will guide to whatever you want to do.”

C) “…Quality, in terms of this analogy, isn’t any "part" of the train. It’s the leading edge of the engine, a two-dimensional surface of no real significance unless you understand that the train isn’t a static entity at all. A train really isn’t a train if it can’t go anywhere. In the process of examining the train and subdividing it into parts [dualism] we’ve inadvertently stopped it, so that it really isn’t a train we are examining. That’s why we get stuck.”
… “The real train of knowledge isn’t a static entity that can be stopped and subdivided. It’s always going somewhere. On a track called Quality. And that engine and all those 120 boxcars are never going anywhere except where the track of Quality takes them; and romantic Quality, the leading edge of the engine, takes them along that track. [Thus] .. [Quality] is the cutting edge of experience [and] what then becomes in our mind generated, constructed, created reality}. … ”
… “It’s the leading edge of the train of knowledge that keeps the whole train on the track. At the leading edge there are no subjects, no objects, only the track of Quality ahead…” [our problem-solving-brain, is dynamically choosing , and creating, what next we are going to do =>] “So we preselect on the basis of Quality, or to put it another way, the track of Quality preselects what data we’re going to be conscious of, and it makes this selection in such a way as to best harmonize with what we are becoming.”

D) “…"Man is the measure of all things." Yes, that’s what he is saying about Quality. Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists and materialists would say.”
… “The Quality which {+creates the world+} emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things—it fits. And they taught rhetoric—that fits.”

EXPLANATION: These italicized ZMM Book Passages Above A) Thru D), Are Really Statements Of-Modernism’s So Named “Constructivism”, Or More Properly “Constructivist Epistemology”.
… “Constructivist Epistemology is a branch, in philosophy of science, maintaining that natural science consists of mental constructs that are constructed with the aim of explaining sensory experience (or measurements) of natural world. According to it, scientific knowledge is constructed by the scientific community, seeking to measure and construct models of the natural world.”

Of interest To Philosophers: Professor J. J. Hopfield’s Neuron Network Theory Shows Us How => A Problem Solving Brain, That Automatically, Spontaneously, Finds => Best Or Near Best Partial Fit Solutions (Answers), Goes A Long Way To Explain => How It Is We Humans So Quickly & Easily => “Know “What Is BETTER” or “What Is BEST.” Which Extends To "What is good, and how do we know it?,"

… And As Extensively Discussed Above, The Hopfield’s Neuron Network Theory Conclusions, Are Entirely Consistent With The Findings of Robert Pirsig =>
And as is also extensively discussed above, it is through a good understanding of => The Hopfield Neuron Network Model, that we have an explanation of => How we can easily & instantly recognize Robert Pirsig’s => “What Is Best,” and “What Is Good”, and “What Is OF High “Quality, “ ”, …. when examples of such are presented to us in our lives, abd.in Robert Pirsig’s book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” (ZMM).
… For example, we instantly understand, when Robert Pirsig asks => "And what is good Phaedrus And what is not good - Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?”
… Below is my discussion, which expands on this quote.
… In an interview (link below) Mr. Pirsig, again asks the above italicized question, and then goes beyond to some VERY important insights, which would benefit everyone to study at length and take to heart! Pirsig gives us some very practical messages, really a theory, for guiding our every action, and ultimately our lives!!!! To help you get started, I show below the portion of Anthony’s transcript, a part where Pirsig discusses just how “Quality” and “BETTER” ... come into our daily actions ... each moment …. leading then to the next moment, wherein these actions continue & repeat.
From Interview (Blue Link Below) Mr. Pirsig Said =>
… “And, of course the answer is "No!" ” [to the above question “need we ask anyone to tell us these things” ] “Everybody knows what Quality is. You can't take a step forward without deciding that step is better than standing where you were. You can't take a meal without feeling it'd be better to eat than not to eat and you can't go upstairs without deciding that it will be better to go upstairs… and so on. ”
… “And so Quality is not just some abstraction; it's something that guides your life every minute of every second [of every day] even though you do not intellectually recognize that it is so. ”
… “So, I found that certain people know this automatically and they are usually skilled artists. When you're trying to create a painting or a piece of music you've got to have this feeling of what's better. And just this feeling of what is better, immediately will guide to whatever you want to do. ”
…(Bolds are by Henry Gurr)

Thanks Go To Dr. Anthony McWatt, For Making Available This Above Important Transcription of Mr. Robert Pirsig’s Interview Discussion, Titled => ‘’An Overview of the MOQ by Robert Pirsig’’, July 2005.
Pirsig’s words (given paragraphs above), were excerpts from his “complete and definitive” => “The transcript of the third film on the "The MOQ at Oxford" DVD”. =>
Click Here For This Transcript at Archive.org.

More Information Concerning Robert Pirsig and His Book “Zen And the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” Is Here =>
1) http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Main/HomePage
2) http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/ZMMLinksPage

Robert Pirsig’s Conclusions Stated In Italics(Throughout This WebPage), Are In Many Ways, Statements Of His Observations About How Our Mind-Brain Works!!
… Mr Pisig Is Offering, Essentially The Beginings Of A Theory Of Mind!
… And, These Pirsig Statements, Really Get My Attention, Because They Overall Solidly Confirm What Professor J. J. Hopfield’s Theory Says Should Happen!
… In Other Words => Robert Pirsig’s Message and Observations, Come From => Directly Observable, Intrinsic Consequences Of How Our Mind-Brain Works!!
… And this fits Professor Hopfield’s work (that in essence) says => Our brain is a biological mechanism to seek the “best" line of action for whatever situation is encountered, and this is the exact basis for how we so quickly & easily can see => “What Is Best” And “What Is Good” and “What Is Quality.” .
…Here you should recognize, that each new real world situation, faced by a person, is really “a problem to be solved”, as Pirsig says "every minute of every second [of every day]" !

And All The More So, Because (As I Recently Realized) Professor Hopfield’s PHYSICS THEORY Of BRAIN Operation, Shows FACTUAL REASONS For The LITERAL TRUTH Of What Pirsig Says! Specifically, Pirsig Statements =>

Building On The ABOVE italicized ZMM Book Passages Concerning > “ What Is Best” And “What Is Good” =>

We Instantly Know “What Is Best” And “What Is Good” !!! And “What Is Quality.” =>

These Are Built Into Us!! It From Our Evolutionary Heritage, IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY!!!! AMEN !

No Matter What Is A Living Organism Encounters, Its Survival Depends, Moment By Moment, Instant by Instant, The Deducing Of The “Best Line Of Action”, Irrespective Of The organism’s Circumstances!!!
… Automatic, Spontaneous, FAST and ACCURATE, and Yes BEST, Is Of Utmost Importance For Survival!!! (Of course, by “Best”, I mean “best”, most of the time.)
… As a summary of the above discussion we must realize that any living organism, in any place and at any time, must deduce (or know) “What Is Best” . (Which is a mental (brain) operation, Mr. Pirsig calls Quality.)
… No matter the situation and no matter what is to be done about it, whether foraging for food, choosing a mate, or taking quick, appropriate action, if suddenly in danger or attacked. In all circumstances the organism must immediately automatically spontaneously, formulate a BEST plan of action, and simultaneously start to activate an optimal overall body action response.
… And very soon thereafter coordinate (and accomplish), the organism’s continuing optimal muscular action responses, such as body motions, and then decoding of the ongoing new circumstances in response to those continuing and changing body motions, orientations, and spatial locations of the body, not to mention the changing circumstances of the external world, that surrounds the organism. That’s a tall order, but one that we daily see very successfully accurately accomplished, all around us!!
… AND because we humans have received the evolutionary benefits of the living organisms that went before us we humans, of necessity, have all this same body and mind machinery. In other words, we are not different! (Or at least, not too much when it comes to this ability.)
… Thus we likewise have built into us, through biological evolution, brain machinery to instantly, automatically, and inescapably, deduce and know “What Is Best” This is precisely what is necessary for any creature (or species) to survive, nay excel, on this fair Earth!
… This overall mental (& brain) operation to find Best Or Near Best Solutions, Pirsig names Quality. And Quality is of course, Mr Pirsig’s central focus in his above interview, throughout this WebPage, and also throughout his books “ZMM” and “Lila”.
… Accordingly, In Reading Robert Pirsig’s ZMM, We Should Keep In Mind His Stated Book Purpose On Page Seven => “I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?”
… Strange to say, our society does not seem to intellectually recognize the full impact of the above-mentioned Robert Pirsig Three Interview Paragraphs! … As Pirsig Points out in “ZMM”, at least since the time of Aristotle, What Is Best has been subordinated to what is Logical (Rational or Scientific). And at least since the First World War our Western Culture, in addition, seems to have been infected by the whole attitude of Nihilism:

SIDE NOTE1: My Summary of the Whole Attitude Trap of Nihilism: A Similar Trap Comes From Materialism.
… In the Nihilist View, as well as a large portion of our society, this universe is “just” here because of the “accident” of the Big Bang, which made the Laws of Physics and all the atoms. Thus we are just this accidental pile of atoms following the laws of physics, and the laws of tooth-and-claw biology! The only things “real” and material are objects made of atoms. As an extension of this, Ideals, Values and Quality don’t exist because they are not material, rather they are a collection of thoughts put together by piles of atoms! Thus, there is no meaning (or value) to our existence; Nothing has Quality. Somehow, the facts (described above) that we know and seek What Is Best escapes the persons of the Nihilist persuasion. Likewise it escapes them that that Ideals, Values, and Quality are the prime movers of people and societies!
… In fact, the Nihilist and many (or most) mail line philosophers go out of their way to prove and promote this conclusion. Even Philosophers the likes of Existential Nihilist, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, were driven to deep emotional depression, to the point of suicide, but still promoted this viewpoint with no attempt to find a way out of it! Somehow the adherents to Nihilism considered this valuable insight and the “airtight logic” of the Nihilism viewpoint convinced these persons there was no use to look for a way out of their predicament, no matter how depressing!
… This at least was where I was some 30 years ago. They and I forgot that there were 200,000 years of happy human beings on this earth, before Nihilism set in, in the aftermath of 1st World War! They, and I, failed to observe children, or to even remember themselves as a child, and see that Nihilism is NOT true as an observable fact. Even the Ancient Egyptian paintings of happy domestic scenes were ignored. In other words, what should be (or have been) obvious from direct observation: persons infected with Nihilism, most of our culture, are blind to its consequences and blind to seeing their way out! What’s worse, they will fail to even question the depressing, suicidal conclusion of either Materialism or Nihilism. Moreover, it is an observable fact that the literature that would help such persons out of their position, such as Pirsig, Polanyi, Barfield, and more, have practically NO effect and are ignored for the most part. For examples continue reading down to the double line.

SIDE NOTE2: Owen Barfield, In His Writing, Says Or Implies: “What Do You Mean, There Is No Meaning? Just Look Around You!!! This World Is Pregnant With Meaning!!
Barfield’s book “The Rediscovery Of Meaning”, starts off with a passage that (approximately) says “How is it that the more we are able to control the physical world, the less we see any meaning in it??

SIDE NOTE3: The Conclusions of Nihilism, Come From A Totally Wrong Interpretation Of What Science Is, Or Can Say!!!
… These Nihilistic (or Materialistic) conclusions (seemingly based on good science and inescapable logic), are the unquestioned starting point of most 20th Century Philosophers. Even I, as a PhD physicist, was caught in this devastating, demoralizing, deadening, trap! I was stuck, with no way out until I read various works of Owen Barfield, Michael Polanyi, and Robert Pirsig. They pointed out these conclusions of Nihilism come from a totally wrong interpretation of what science is, or can say! (These three authors share similar distress with our culture’s Modernism, Materialism, Nihilism trend, thus propelling them to seek (and write up), their answers. All three see an improper understanding of science as a major cause.)

SIDE NOTE4: In actual fact The REAL Situation Is Exactly the REVERSE of The Whole Attitude of Nihilism!!
… Robert Pirsig points to the “real” situation: Quality is ‘’’NOT’’’ non-existent and un-real!!! Rather, Quality is the most real, and central “thing/force/action” around you!!
… And HERE is how why Meaning & Purpose, can solidly be present in our lives! And thus exactly contrary to Nihilism.
… This, for me personally, illustrates the importance of Pirsig’s writing, just to mention one importance of many in his books “ZMM” and “Lila”.
… As Pirsig says in “ZMM”: “Quality is the parent, the source of all subjects and objects."
And in later chapter, Pirsig continues =>

AND, exactly this is the Origin Of Meaning & Purpose, in our lives!!

APPENDIX I: Our Darwinian Evolutionary Developmental Heritage, Has Given Animals A Problem Solving Brain. This Is The Reason Primates, Especially Humans, Excel At Problem Solving.

TO REPEAT THE TITLE AT TOP OF THIS WEBPAGE =>
… The Close Study Of The Pioneering Efforts Of Princeton Physicist J. J. Hopfield’s Mathematical Neuron Network Theory Of The Mammalian Brain, Is Necessary To Understood How => In Response To Life’s Problems Coming At Us => Our Problem Solving Brain, Automatically, Spontaneously, Generate, Construct, Create Into Conscious Mind, Best Or Near Best Solutions (Answers),For Life’s Oncoming Problems:
… The above is the basis for => We have a natural ability to see => "What is best?." And this naturally extends to "What is good, and how do we know it?,"
… From the above it follows that humans are Natural Problem Solvers, and Robert Pirsig is among the most outstanding. This is studied next below.

FOOTNOTES:

1) Professor Hopfield’s Mammalian Brain Theory Click Here. was modeled after, and bears similarity to A Solid State Physics Model (and Theory) for a Spin Glass, called Ising Glass: Click Here.

2) A Passage from Robert Pirsig’s book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, applies here: “Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. (3) The cycle you’re working on is a cycle called “yourself. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.”

3) Why does Pirsig say the conclusion stated in 2) above? ANSWER =>: Pirsig’s Working Well and Caring produce “best” answers to problems (or other needed actions). You have to understand, that life on this earth, OF NECESSITY had to find and use the best actions, for survival!!! So evolution has provided us with this brain machinery, to automatically find, these best answers (which the brain IN-ESCAPABLE and ALWAYS automatically supplies): As you see, these are ALWAYS optimal solutions, which if you pay attention, you will see that such, in turn produces “peace of mind”!! (4)
… And, How Is All This Possible? => Physicist J J Hopfield, Provides a Clear Mathematically Established Foundation For EXPLANING, Just How A Physical Biological Brain, Can Accomplish What We Know Actually Happens. … Professor Hopfield’s Theory Gives Us A Needed & Rock Bottom Basis & Proof For ANY “Theory Explanation Of How Our Mind Works”. And thus indeed Professor Hopfield Indeed Shows Us That A Coherent Theory of Mind Is Thinkable, & Indeed Ultimately Possible.

4) Thus from 3) above, for every circumstance: It is highly recommended that we take on The ZMM Attitude of Working Well and Caring!! This will produce your Best Work, for whatever it is you are doing!! In other words: Here think Hopfield Theory! AND Think the Zen Attitudes recommended throughout “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. (5)

5) Also the recommendations of Physical Chemist, Michael Polanyi are relevant here.: See his book “Meaning”, where he describes his ideas (and practices) he calls “Personal Knowledge”

Announcing My Book Writing Project. By Henry Gurr, ZMMQ Site Master.

… I am gathering evidence, from my own extensive research observations and additional literature search, in preparation to write a major book that both builds upon and extends the pioneering efforts of Princeton Physicist J. J. Hopfield. This book will cover why Hopfield’s work is important and how his Mathematical Theory of the Mammalian Brain, provides the solid mathematical based secure foundation for what could be called a "A Strikingly Different New Science of How Our Mind Works".

… It is hoped that this book will clearly explain how Hopfield’s Theory is a new basis for nearly completely explaining a wide panorama of human mental phenomena and human abilities arising from their Central Nervous System activity. I will include the observations and conclusions of noteworthy researchers as well as my own, which the reader can learn about, by study of the “For Further Reading”, found at the end of this WebPage.

Looking For A Knowledgeable Person To Help Me With The Task Of Writing (And Getting "Out To The Public") My Above Mentioned Book That Builds On The Pioneering Efforts Of Princeton Physicist J. J. Hopfield. Please Contact me if you believe you are qualified:

Persons who have good knowledge of the relevant literature, and good writing skills, may contact me if they are interested in working with this project as outlined below. Your involvement could range anywhere from reading and commenting on my written chapters to becoming an editor- assembler of the book.

The work would proceed as described in the above mentioned Pirsig Interview: Pirsig makes the point by quoting Robert Redford’s saying " ‘That's how I make my films!’ Well, I don't know what I'm going to do [either], I just have to see what has Quality. If it has Quality then I'll do it. If it doesn't have Quality, I won't do it. If I look at it a week later and I see it doesn't have Quality, I'll throw it out. If I suddenly, in the middle of the night say, think of something better, I'll put that in.”

This reminds me of Frank Lloyd Wright’s statement: “The Architect’s two best friends are the eraser and the sledge hammer.” Meaning, that if you see “better”, immediately use these “removers’, and with no regrets (or looking back): You erase / sledgehammer “the not so good”! And also meaning: Don’t fret over the loss of your valuable investment of extensive previous work, no matter how difficult it was to do it, or how long this took!!!!!

Please Contact me if you believe you are qualified to assist me with this book writing project:
At the top of my Professor Henry Gurr Home Page, you will find my contact information, which is ONLY PARTLY correct. Cell Phone & Department Secretary are wrong, But correct, are my Email HenryG@USCA.edu and Home Phone 706 925 6401.

If You Know of Good Books, Authors, Articles, Or Have Other Suggestions/Observations, Etc …
…Please Feel Free Contact Me (Email Above), With Any Idea That Would Make Better =>

Sincerely Henry Gurr.
ZMMQ Site Master and Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of South Carolina Aiken.

G) FOR FURTHER READING => Below Is A Listing Of Henry Gurr’s NINE Cognitive Theory (Explanation) Pages, Which You Can Study To Learn About. …. You Will Find That => These Describe The Best Available Cognitive Theory Of How Our Mind Works, => In the Creation of Sudden, Automatic, Spontaneous Mental Arrivals, by UN-Conscious Brain Processes: This Theory Explanation, Which Is Confirmed By Direct Observation Of Our Mind At Work, Also Offers A Very Viable Answer To “The Mind-Body Problem”, And Effectively Closes “The Explanatory Gap”.

… … … As You See In The Main Menu, UPPER LEFT, Starting At The TOP =>
First Blue Menu Link: Suggest You START Your Study Here => H Gurr’s Compact Explanation: => A Unified Panorama View Into “How Our Mind Works”.

… THEN Suggest You Continue Reading Next Page Below, Which Is => :

2nd Blue Menu Link: Collected Properties & Characteristics All Mental Arrivals Such As => , Such As => Eureka!, Epiphany, The Light Came On!!, A Flash of Insight It **AHA**, It Dawned On Me, Light Bulb As In Cartoons, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, And Many Others Similar But Less Dramatic.
…From scattered places in Henry Gurr’s 8 WebPages (hereby listed) “How Our Mind Works” => Here collected into one WebPage, are the ALL of the Properties & Characteristics Of Every Mental Arrival: These are such as “Flash Of Insight”, Epiphany, Etc), which come automatically, spontaneously, Into Our Conscious Mind. Or similarly for the creation of our Primary Consciousness, for our Every Waking Moment, Second By Second:
…On this WebPage are also => A Picture Analogy of Before (& After) A Mental Arrival.
…… By reading this essential summary overview WebPage, you will prepare your mind for easier reading of Henry Gurr’s 9 WebPages (hereby listed) “How Our Mind Works”. …You will need to read this page => Because otherwise these various => Properties & Characteristics Of Each & EveryMental Arrivals , In Their Original Scattered Paces, Are Presented In A Way, Such That It Is Hard To See “The Big Picture”.

3rd Blue Menu Link: H Gurr’s FULL DETAIL Expounding => A Unified Panorama View Into “How Our Mind Works”,

4th Blue Menu Link: A Very Important IDEA => Even Partial Fit Problem Solution Is Highly Useful, especially for how Our Problem Solving Brain so easily gives us a Best Understanding for 1) Camouflage, 2) Concept Confusion, and3) Figures of Speech, Such as Metaphor, Analogy, Allegory, Simile, Similar, Similarity, and 22 more.

5th Blue Menu Link: Henty Gurr’s Explanation of => “How Our Mind Works”, Helps Illuminate What’s Happening In Procrastination, And Helps Avoid Procrastination’s Blockages.

6th Blue Menu Link: Hopfield Neuron Network Theory => Illuminates How Brains Generate (Construct Create) Optimal Solutions To “Life’s Problems Coming At Us”, plus Links To Other H Gurr Writing On Mind.
…. /\THIS /\ IS THE PAGE YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING

7th Blue Menu Link: Constructivist Epistemology +An Anatomy Of An Idea Come To Mind, Which Is A => Full Exhaustive Listing of Mental Arrivals, Such As => Eureka!, Epiphany, The Light Came On!!, A Flash of Insight It **AHA**, It Dawned On Me, Light Bulb As In Cartoons, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, And MANY OTHERS Similar, But Less Dramatic.

8th Blue Menu Link: It’s A Marvel! It’s SO Incredible!! …. The Wonderous, Wonderful, Amazing, Gift Of Consciousness!!.
… Our Brain Generates, Constructs, Creates => Our Primary Consciousness. And Subsequently, As A Specialized Mental Arrival, We Perceive A Glorious 3D World In Full Color Around Us!

9th Blue Menu Link: But How Do We Know What’s Good? [Or Best?],. .... You Just See It. ” ''
… Enthusiasts Of Book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. (ZMM), Will Find Solid Support For Robert Pirsig’s Quality”, In Henry Gurr’s Cognitive Theory Explanation Of => How ” Our Problem Solving Brain, Automatically & Spontaneously Finds Optimal (Best or Near Best) Solutions To Life’s Oncoming Problems” .
NOTE: You may access any of these by clicking (At Upper Left) on any of the TOP EIGHT Blue Links.

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You may access any of these above-mentioned WebPages, by clicking (Main Menu At Upper Left) on any of the TOP NINE Blue Links there.

A Good Place To Start Is Above 2), And Then Continue With Above 3).

Please let me know what you think.

Sincerely Henry Gurr
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B) A LISTING OF: MY FOUR WEBPAGES, WHICH ARE EFFECTIVELY “BRAIN OWNER’S USERS MANUALS”, WHICH ARE APPLICATIONOS OF => “Henry S Gurr’s Theory Explanation Of How Our Mind Works”:
1) For Further Reading => My WebPage, Where You May Learn MORE About => How The Problem Solving Brain, Gives Us Analogy, Metaphor, & Other Similar Sympathetic-Poetic Associatives (SPA):
After this WebPage comes up, please scroll down to => “Relation of Poetry to Metaphor”.

2) For Further Reading => My WebPage, Where You May Learn More About => Many, Many Examples of The Flash of Insights, as well Other Automatic, Spontaneous, Sudden Mental Arrivals Here:
After this WebPage comes up, please scroll down to where you see => This WebPage (and It’s Included Links)

3)Cont: For Further Reading => My WebPage, Where You May Learn More About => The Actions Of The Many Cases Herein Named => Sympathetic Poetic Associatives (SPA). Further discussion of my “Sympathetic-Poetic Associatives” (a new term coined by me Henry Gurr) is here => AFTER This WebPage Comes Up, Please Scroll Down To D) We All Use Mental Abilities Such a Metaphor, Analogy, Simile …

4) For Further Reading => My WebPage, Where You May Learn More => On How To “See In action” (& Thus Learn More) About Our How The Problem Solving Brain, Gives Us Clear Thinking, On Demand!
After this WebPage comes up, you will need to explore around, to see how this discussion supports my Theory.

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