Posted by Gauge on 7/9/2002, 7:48 am His idea appears to be at the conceptual stage only, where he has given a heuristic setting for his "mentomatics". Hardly any comment is possible without further construction. But hey, who knows, it is an idea in it's infancy and maybe he can prove something with it as he explores it. It may turn out to be completely different from what he or we apprehend. The response is published in Mukto-mona forum ( http://www.mukto-mona.com )
Avijit,
At present, he has tried to apply elementary techniques used in maths and physics to elucidate his theory and thus to motivate a "mentomatics". How he expects to quantify such subjective and relative criteria such as "feelings like love, fear, hope, faith, courage, etc" has not been established. His idea, while novel, is purely conjecture at the moment. He needs to flesh out his "mentomatics" before comment is possible. However, examining his model above at face value for it's validity for even being formulated as a coordinate problem in maths is revealing. The axes that he chooses as Love, Faith and Hope are orthogonal to each other which would imply (using the standard vector dot product) that there is no projection of Love into Faith and vice versa, Faith into Hope and vice-versa and Hope into Love and vice-versa thus implying they are independent degrees of freedom. Now, anyone familiar with these subjective emotions would argue that such projections happen all the time. Thus, the model would appear to need modification already, even at the conceptual stage. Of course, if in "mentomatics" orthogonality is defined as something different, then this might be possible indeed, but then the model given above is certainly misrepresenting the form such "mentomatics" will take.
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