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The Basis of Thinking from Behavior Elements

Authors:
Peter H. Pfeifer
Julian Pfeifer
Niko Pfeifer

Keywords: cognitive modeling; psycholinguistics; psychology; psychophysiology of cognition

Abstract:
In brain decoding research, one thing in particular is neglected: basic drives and their relationship to behavior. Basic drives ‘drive’ to fulfill basic needs that are important for survival, the situation of life, reproduction, and good social relationships. The brain controls the behavior needed to attain these goals. This work shows that behavior is based on thousands of combinations of only 5 drive-related basic behavior elements. Since these behaviors vary in more than 100 different areas of life, they add up to a large number of human behaviors. These 5 drive-related basic behavior elements are the components for thousands of behaviors and terms that describe behavior. They have representations in the brain that give thinking its basis. These elements are the basic building blocks for both behavior and thinking about that behavior. It is an approach to reduce the thinking processes in the brain from very many different to very few building blocks. It can be an approach that helps brain research to get closer to understanding thinking through this reduction of elements in the direction of think modules.

Pages: 39 to 50

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: June 26, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-68558-046-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from June 26, 2023 to June 30, 2023