COA Lecture: Know you Mind to Understand Yourself and Others

Roy Freed, a long-retired lawyer from Canton, used his own mind, by introspection, to derive a relatively simple explanation of the human mind that is especially informative for non-scientists like himself. It should help people mine their mental resources and possibly remedy their weaknesses. Roy fi nds it instructive to perceive the mind as a unique biological machine broadly analogous to computers, but far superior to them, and to compare their equivalent readily-recognizable basic features. Thus, his approach both capitalizes on the widespread familiarity with computers and provides a platform for understanding the burgeoning usually technically described discoveries of neuroscientists.