Signals in the noise.

Abstract

Examination of the functions of the human brain can give rise to useful speculation in several areas. Firstly, the brain necesarily imposes patterns and classifications on the outside world and events. Secondly, for problem solving it needs to work on a detectable structure. Complex problem solving involves the use of graphical and algebraic languages. Education has helped to perpetuate unhelpful subject divisions without which it would be possible to create, at the higher level, a curriculum based on mathematics, philosophy and systems analysis as core subjects, together with an emphasis on pattern and structure which would transcend traditional disciplines and lead to genuine advance and creativity. -J.Welford