The main earlier “intelligence” studies are reported below in §D.

KEY WORDS
Piaget, ncRNA, schéma, coaxial, myelin, hippocampus, Kant, neurogenesis, UPE, infrared, Long-Term-Memory, epistemology, bio-optics, Scientific-Method, Brain-mechanism, Jerne, neuron-migration, vertebrate-intelligence, human intelligence.

§B    Books  

• Mind and Micro-Mechanism:   a hunt for the missing theory
  ISBN 0-9577737-0-6     R.R.Traill (1999)
• Physics and Philosophy of the Mind :  some new insights in an extended neuro-project (.pdf)
  ISBN 0-9577737-1-4     R.R.Traill (2000)      

† Printed — $25 Australian (AUD) — now all-inclusive (free of postage and tax).

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§C    Two Theses:


Thesis 2   —   Anna-Marie Cushan (1983/2014).

Investigations into Facts and Values — Groundwork for a theory of moral conflict resolution

    Many people still believe that, by using specially privileged logical strategies, we can get to perfect certainty — at least on some issues. Until the 1970s, many philosophers thought that too; but they eventually agreed this was a mistake because those special strategies can never be rigorously justified, so they lose that supposed privilege.
    However without such pretentions, we all make many everyday decisions, and often in a reasonable way despite the admitted uncertainties and biases. So how do we do it?
    And are those traditional 'logical' arguments just one end of this 'everyday' scale — rather than being within a world of their own as previously supposed?   If so, it becomes especially important to better understand those 'non-deductive' strategies; and that is the objective of Dr.Cushan's thesis, which can be seen as having two phases of this argument:

    Phase 1. (Mainly in Chapters 3 and 4): Review of how the old strategy-system fails us, and the arguments used in its demise in the 1970s within philosophy and psychology, even though it often persists elsewhere.
    Phase 2.: Cuts new ground in explicating 'ordinary' everyday logic, its long established use in ethics, aesthetics, and social institutions such as the law-court — and how traditional 'facts' fit into this picture. Finally Dr.Cushan seeks to apply these insights to conflict problems.




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Thesis 1   —   R.R.Traill (1978/2006).

Available as two files (Part B + The remaining 207pp) via Brunel University Research Archive (BURA):  
— to get Part B: electrical & optics aspects
— to get all the rest, incl. Parts A and C


Or else (from this site) as the 7 separate files itemized below:

"Molecular Explanation for Intelligence — including its growth, maintenance, and failings"

• Preliminaries + Part A (361KB) — This file includes "Contents", Introduction, and Part A itself (previously published in Kybernetes 5 and 7).   Part A summarizes Piaget's relevant concepts, but also considers what general-types of submechanism could possibly explain such human abilities.
• Part B (409KB) — here, and originally, published as the self-contained Brunel Monograph #24: "Toward a theoretical explanation of electro-chemical interaction in memory use:   the postulated role of infra-red components and molecular evolution".   This accepts the hard-science challenge posed by Part A — moving the debate beyond abstract philosophy into physics and information-technology whilst retaining the biological context.
• Chapters C1-C5 (471KB) — The hierarchical-organization concepts of W.R.Ashby are added, and tentatively identified with Piaget's "developmental stages" such as to explain the advanced mental capabilities of humans.
• Chapter C6 (424KB) — "The system looked at as a whole, and some inherent weaknesses to be expected"
• Chapter C7 (93KB) — "Mechanisms for neuroses", applying the above concepts.
• Chapter C8 (450KB) — "Developing a consistent and reasonably comprehensive structural theory of psychosis"
• References (165KB)

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§D   Other Work Important to Main Project         (in Date Order)