Mind as Process

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        <b>Mind as Process.</b>
      
      
        
      
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        Mark H. Bickhard
      
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        <u>PDF <http://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/mindasprocess.pdf></u>
      
      
        
      
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        One of the major themes of the history of science is the replacement of substance 
        assumptions about the phenomena of interest with process models. Thus, phlogiston has been 
        replaced by combustion, caloric by random thermal motion, and vital fluid by 
        far-from-equilibrium self-reproducing organizations of process. The most significant 
        exceptions to this historical pattern are found in studies of the mind. Here, substance 
        assumptions are still ubiquitous, ranging from models of representation to those of 
        emotions to personality and psychopathology. Substance assumptions do pernicious damage to 
        our ability to understand such phenomena. In this discussion, I will focus on the problem 
        of representation
      
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