Applications of Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry to the Formation of Concepts, Analytical Judgments, and Symbolization

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel theory of the origin of analytic thought, groundedin a unified perspective of psychiatry, philosophy of language, cognitiveneuroscience, and symbolic logic. Rejecting both strict logicism and pureidealism, the author argues that the human mind mirrors the structural andintelligent causality of the universe. Through biologically inherited pathwaysshaped by evolutionary pressure, our nervous system becomes equipped toformulate concepts, analogies, and symbolic abstractions that reflect real-world patterns. These symbolic structures — particularly in logic and language— are not merely mental constructions, but echoes of universal laws. Theargument extends to the capacity of artificial intelligence to approximatehuman-like moral reasoning, by accessing and reflecting the same universalstructures. The result is a theory of mind where thought, concept, and symbolare expressions of a cosmos that is not only lawful, but inherently intelligentand self-reflective.

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