The "psychological map of the brain", as a personal information card (file), - a project for the student of the 21st century

Emanuel Gluskin, " The psychological m ap of the brain … " 17.Jan.2011 arXiv:1101.3465v2 [cs.AI ] 1 The " psycholog ical map of the br ain ", as a pers onal information card (f ile), -- a project for the stude nt of the 21 st century Emanuel Glus kin Galilean Sea Academic College and Braude Academic College, Israel, gluskin@ee.bgu.ac.il , http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~gluskin/ Abstract : We s uggest a proce dure that is relevant both t o elect ronic performance and human psychology, so th at the creative logic a nd the re spect for human nature a ppear in a good agreement. The idea is to create an electronic ca rd containing basic information about a person's psychological behavior in order to make it possible to quickly decide about the s uitability of one for anothe r . This " psychological electronics" approach could be tested via student projects. The point The point of the fol lowing suggesti on (briefly m entioned in [1]) is merely logical, not of any c omplicated electronic technology. Everyone might be interested in thi s suggestion, because it should make our life easier. The unusual degree of freedom used in this s uggestion is that the e lectronics (program) design is led by a prel iminary ps ychological test . The union of the electronics means, making it possible to quickly read and analyze information, and the relevant psy chological approach related to the individual, is seen to be constructive, promising good effects. To start with, let us note that as the huma n popula tion becomes more and more dense, and close to one a nother in many senses , we often meet the uneasy nece ssity to we ll fit each other, usually having a ver y limited time for achieving this important goal. In marriages, job c ontacts, and some othe r situa tions, an unexpec ted feature of a part ner or co-worker c an lead to serious t rouble. Just think of a girl ha ving i n her br ain the ce nter defining her love feeling be ing uncontrollably (unconsciously) connected with the c enter of anger (aggressivene ss), or about a Boss's skillful driver w ho i s unable to quie tly sit and wait f or half a n hour, or a bout one whose relation to mone y or other "home matters" are those of a pl ayer , -- should a girl who wishes to create a serious family with educated c hildren marry suc h a pers on? As well, it can be unpleasant or shoc king, if your co-worker suddenl y e xhibits impatience with your national mentality. Of course , one can accept any suc h disadvantage of the other, seeing the other's "pluses" as against a particular disadvantage, but it should be seen that: a. One has the right to k now the situation a pr iori , and, definitely, in such important cases a s marriage or a job agreement, the information about the disadvantages should be required to be provided, which, as we shall expla in, i s physically (technically) possible. Emanuel Gluskin, " The psychological m ap of the brain … " 17.Jan.2011 arXiv:1101.3465v2 [cs.AI ] 2 b. Even a himself-problematic pers on should be f inally interested in not being in contact with a human environment which i s not s uitable for he r or him. Thus, though one does not a lways wis h her or his psychological features t o become known, it may be expected that in general people will be interested in providing (and re ceiving) such kinds of information; stressing that the right to obtain the information is a mutual one. It is ob viously too late, redundant, a nd e ven phy sically impossible, to st art with the psychological investig ation when a c onflict a lready s tarted. However, -- when, in a f riendly atmosphere organized by a psychologist, not associated with any existing conflict, just see n as a scientific or philosophica l conv ersation, or an amusing test, one answers t he questions about some releva nt situations, -- a sufficiently comple te picture of one's characteristics ca lled here "c onnections between t he main brain centers" can be e asily obtained. As the poin t of the t echnical contribution, this information is meant to be finally rec orded in an e lectronic card ( file), to be checked when it is necessary to avoid the possible dangerous conflicts as much as possible. The logistics of the proposition When speaking about the " brain ce nters ", we mean, of course, s ome real physical (biological) c enters that can, electrically or chemically, interact with each other, but not, however, the placement of the centers in the brain, nor their form (which need not even be well loca lized), and no such physical brain-maps as the known (see, e. g., Google) CT or MRI maps are required here. We approach the brain as a "system", i.e. in the simple sense of the input-output mapping , and see the results of the psychological tests as a graph the vertices of whic h a re the " main brain c enters" and the branches, -- the possible connections. Whi le the ce nters are, more or less, the same for all of us, the c onnections between the centers a re much more individual a nd they are our focus. We thus have the main stages of the procedure as follows. 1. A psychologist (preferably together with a sociologist) de velops a test, a nd a person under s tudy (p resumably over 18 years old) fills a questionnaire that is then turned into a s uitable electronic-file form. Suc h a test s hould not be once pe r life, of course, it can be repeated (refreshed) once per several years. 2. The i nformational (elect ronic , magnetic, etc.) ca rd is used/involved then t o inc lude the personal data obtained in the test, this data to be easily read when it is needed. 3. A program is de veloped f or mut ually comparing two such personal inform ational cards, in order to see the matching ( fitting) between the card's owners and thus estimate the probability of success in the proposed undertaken, e.g. in marriag e, -- a case whe n the use of the card i s, perhaps, m ost mandatory, beca use stresses and scandals in families sometimes end tragically. A draft of some such unc ompleted psychological test is s hown in Fig. 1. The (nonzero) value of a certain coefficient a ik showing the probabi lity of t he inf luence of center number i on c enter number k is determined by some subte st, after the initial test reveals that this probability is not ignorable. The stage of the performance of the test shown in this figure, takes place afte r the general pa rt a nd the subtest that determines a 12 and a 21 are performed. Emanuel Gluskin, " The psychological m ap of the brain … " 17.Jan.2011 arXiv:1101.3465v2 [cs.AI ] 3 Love feelings Anger 0.4 1 2 3 0.1 Patience Responsibility ( a 12 =0.4; a 21 =0.1) 4 Fig 1: The p syc hological test of a "4-center"-person i s being conducted. The connec tions of the centers are observed at first. The n the relevant subtests r eveal and determine, via intensities of the i nterac tions (in bo th directions), the probabilities of the influ en ces between the ce nters, expressed by the numerical values of a ik , here the a lready found for a 12 and a 21 . The matrix characterizing connections between the centers looks at this stage as: 11 12 13 14 14 23 21 22 23 24 31 32 34 31 32 33 3 4 43 41 42 43 44 0 0.4 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a             =                 . One agr ees that the valu e 0.4 of the probabilit y of influencing the center of anger of love feelings is really frightening! Of course, one can use the diagonal elements in or der to express the re lative "strengths" of the centers, having a ii nonzero, say, in the range 0< a ii <1. To the students The proposition of the "psychological electronics appl ications", which we put her forward does not belong to any well established or popul ar field, and i t i s always objectively difficult to pre sent a new a pproach in a perfect f orm. The present general consideration is suggested, however, to be c ontinued by the students who ca n invent a simple game involving some primiti ve creatures (or a " society" of the se creatures), having very few of the "brain centers". Take for the fi rst experiment 2 centers (e.g. those of hunger and justice ) which can be mutually connected wit h some individual a 12 and a 21 . Give some distributions for Emanuel Gluskin, " The psychological m ap of the brain … " 17.Jan.2011 arXiv:1101.3465v2 [cs.AI] 4 a 12 and a 21 . What is the state of mood (defined by you a s some quantity) of this funny "society"? Are your cre atures " happy "? Deriving some conclusions, try t o pass to a model of 3 centers, etc.. The competition of s uch games (projects) might be an interesting event i n the school or the college. The extended card One can also propose a n extended information card that would include, in a ddition to the information about brain centers, some important i nformation about the person, provided by those who know him well, and on whom he can rely. It is quite reasonable to ask, e.g., your old mom (who hardly will be able t o help you with her advice in some 20 years), or your older f riend who well understands you, to add t o the c ard their advice as regarding what would suit you well; to what kind of people you s hould be (o r not be) close. The fact is, that under many circumstances, when we are attracted by something, we f orget about the great treasure given to us by society, -- the wise advice of those who are cl ose to us, love us and can correctly see us "f rom outside". Thus, recording some good advice f or future reference can be important. In particular, you can be sure that your g irl will be very interested i n the advice and the characteristic ascribed to you by your mother. For instance , one's mother m ight say: " He will always choose the most difficult way ", and one 's older friend might say: " Marriage to a religious girl would be a stable state for him." Even you you rself can quietly "observe/consider yourself" a nd record on the card some important advice for you future. Thus, a ssume that you t hink a bout yourself: " I always get more important results when I think about som ething simple, than w hen I try to quickly r each the heights" and: " I should always count up to 10 before responding ". You ca n derive from these two thoughts the brief: '' It is desi rable for me to be in a quite work at mosphere " whic h is constructive for dec iding whether or not to work with another person, or in a certain human environment, and worth rec ording i n some technically proper form. Perhaps, such free-will a ddition to th e inf ormation card c an be don e via so me special entrances prov ided in a n e xtended psycholog ical test. In any case, t he ta rget of presenting the inform ation in an electronic form for automatic comparison o f different c ards becomes more diff icult with the extension a nd f inding a common electronic f ormat f or t he " Brain Centers " and the " Friendly Advices " parts of the collected information would be an interesting solu tion. One sees that some freedom exists already in the basic logic of t he initial psychology test, and in the way of presenting and comparing the inform ation. Last, but not least, since t echnological d evelopments have their ow n laws and tendencies which by th emselves have no c onnection to human m oral, the involvement, via the psychological aspect, of the respect for human nature , ma y be a point for correct direction of the future applied science. Reference [1] Emanuel Gluskin, "The cemetery", S outh African Journal of Art H istory, vol. 24 no 1, 2009, 196-200. (See the second paragraph in page 199.)