HUMAN SUBCONSCIOUS AS A P-ADIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEM

We propose a mathematical model of the process of thinking based on dy namical systems over a configuration space of ideas. These dynamical s ystems are assumed to be located in the human subconscious and are con trolled by the human conscious which fixes parameters of the dynamical systems in the subconscious and transmits to the subconscious generat ing ideas which initiate iterations of the dynamical systems in the su bconscious. Thus, we present the mathematical model which is not based on the rule of reason. Mathematically the space of ideas is described by so-called p-adic numbers. In fact, a p-adic metric on the space of ideas corresponds to the following nearness between ideas: two ideas x and y are close if they have sufficiently long common root. Already the simplest p-adic dynamical systems might describe some sides of hum an psychological and social behaviour. (C) 1998 Academic Press