User:Peterburton
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Peter G Burton
Peter G Burton[1]
is an independent scientific researcher pursuing two major themes with detailed articles posted as PDF downloads at site http://homepage.mac.com/blinkcentral/Menu7.html [2]
[edit] Human Cognition: Cognitive Process Consciousness model (CPC)
The first is a quest for a scientific understanding of human consciousness. An initial survey, published in the journal Psychobiology in 1990 (Vol 18, pp 119-194) has been followed by a monograph on human learning:- 'Cognitive Analysis of Consciousness: the cognitive infrastructure of human intelligence' ("CAC", AIPL 2004, pp157) and a second on the development of the human mind:- 'The Mind: Theory, Practice & Problems: the cognitive framework of personal growth' ("MTPP", AIPL 2006, pp165). Both of these draw on a common brain-control and case-management model of learning, called the Cognitive Process Consciousness (CPC) model. While the first begins with the child's discovery learning in the 3-6yr span, the second documents how knowledge is generated and structured from this 'learning engine,' leading to a detailed and explicit articulation of the structure, perspectives and layers of the self-model from earliest childhood through adolescence and beyond. With CAC and MTPP as stepping stones, a final monograph of the trilogy:- 'Cognition, Consciousness & Human Animation' (CCHA: pp543) is due for completion in May 2007 [ http://www.blinkcentral.net ]. Subsuming CAC and MTPP, CCHA provides an integrated and coherent operational explanation of the the brain & consciousness; learning and knowledge; and the mind & the self as three independent dimensions of human consciousness: learned control; the knowledge transformation; and mental development, respectively. E-prints of CAC and MTPP, together with 'roadmap' posters and related articles and presentations are lodged as downloadable PDF files at his homepage.mac.com/blinkcentral site: [3]
[edit] Consciousness as a system of processes
The many aspects of consciousness itself, the link to the human mind and the concept of self and the relationship of consciousness to learning and knowledge has led to the formulation of human consciousness as a system of processes operating under a regulatory framework called pure consciousness, some of which operate under forms of brain control which are not inate but which must be learned. The Cognitive Process Consciousness theory by Peter Burton is such an approach, developed in terms of forms of attentional control possible over the brain, and the conception of the conscious brain as a time-division multiplexing system operating in coherent bursts.[4]
--pgburton 00:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Quantum Spin Coherence model (QSC)
The second theme of research follows two earlier decades of interest in the quantum phenomenon of spin through the study of intramolecular electron correlation and intermolecular van der Waals interactions. This follows the heritage of Planck, Einstein, de Broglie, Schrodinger, David Bohm and John Bell, and employs an explicit matter-wave model of spin-cooperative symmetry-breaking within electron pairs. The model, called the Quantum Spin Coherence ("QSC") model, appears powerful as a descriptive model in a wide range of sub-nuclear as well as atomic and molecular phenomena, and may be implicated in the originating physics of the gravitational attraction. E-prints and 'roadmap' posters and presentations are lodged at the same site: [5] --pgburton 00:58, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
