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Chemical compounds, including primitive biochemicals, probably

appeared on the surface of the Earth before proto-cells and genes, con-

sistent with the Princetonator model of biological information (see

Section 4.9). The appearance of the brain then followed that of cells, and,

after the invention of spoken language, mind must have emerged. This

postulated chronological order is indicated by the Arabic numerals shown

in Figure 10.4.

In analogy to the so-called “Santiago theory of cognition” formulated

by H. Maturing and F. Varela based on G. Bateson’s suggestions [400], the

theory of mind depicted in Figure 10.4 is named the New Jersey Theory

of Mind (NJTM) in order. To acknowledge my indebtedness to the resi-

dents of the state of New Jersey, whose tax money has been supporting my

teaching position at Rutgers for over three decades now, during which

time I have been able to carry out my theoretical research in biology,

leading to the formulation of the theory of mind presented here.

The connection between the NJTM and the three theses described in

(10.8) through (10.10) can be represented schematically as shown in

Figure 10.5.

The NJTM is unique in that (a) to the best of my knowledge, it takes

into account and is consistent with all of the contemporary molecular

biological and neurobiological knowledge concerning the material basis

of the brain, (b) it is based on a topological principle formulated as a

generalization of the properties of the Möbius band visualized as BCT,

and (c) the same topological principle underlying the NJTM was found

also to apply to living cells, the human body, Peircean signs, and the

Universe (see Section 10.19).

Pinker thesis+Crick thesis+Marcus thesis

+theMöbius pentad

The New Jersey Theory of Mind

Figure 10.5 The NJTM as the integration of the Pinker, Crick and Marcus theses based

on the topological principle of the Möbius pentad.

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