Archetypes: In The Shadow

This web page is associated with a book called called The Object Oriented Mind.

The book can be bought at: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Dr_Jerome_Heath_Object_Oriented_Mind?id=4mI7DQAAQBAJ

The book gives a more complete explanation of these issues. The concepts of object oriented mind or polymorphic mind are discussed in detail.

A fresh encounter with the outer world is analyzed by a neural network. The information is carried by nerves from the sensing point. The nerve signals are filtered through neural networks. The starting point for interpreting these signals in the learning child is the archetypes. As the mind develops, often used memories and even recent memories can be part of the filtering process. This is where the context both implied and immediate, speeds the process of interpreting information.

The archetype for that area of mental processing is the link with the conscious. This picture is of the Shadow class entity as handed to the archetype. From this initial link, a memory object can be extended from the archetype (as base class). Then the archetype layer becomes the output layer of the shadow of the neural network output.  So the archetype layer serves both as the interpretation function determining layer (how the input is interpreted) and, in the instantiation of the object, as an base class in order to extend a memory object from the shadow (based on the neural interpretation); with the help of the shadow. In this process the archetype that was extended into the new object memory provides the meaning of that object through polymorphic links.

Once the memory object is produced the functionality of the archetype also defines how the object works in memory. Here this becomes the “attributes and methods” of the mental object. These ideas are developed from the concepts of Carl Jung.

Reverse Engineering the Universe              Object Oriented Mind

Jerome Heath