Mosaic Reasoning for Discoveries

Abstract

Abstract We investigate structure of the Primary Language of the human brain as introduced by J. von Neumann in 1957. Two components have been investigated, the algorithm optimizing warfighting, Linguistic Geometry (LG), and the algorithm for inventing new algorithms, the Algorithm of Discovery. The latter is based on multiple thought experiments, which manifest themselves via mental visual streams (“mental movies”). There are Observation, Construction and Validation classes of streams. Several visual streams can run concurrently and exchange information between each other. The streams may initiate additional thought experiments, program them, and execute them in due course. The visual streams are focused employing the algorithm of “a child playing a construction set” that includes a visual model, a construction set, and the Ghost. Mosaic reasoning introduced in this paper is one of the major means to focusing visual streams in a desired direction. It uses analogy with an assembly of a picture of various colorful tiles, components of a construction set. In investigating role of mosaic reasoning in the Algorithm of Discovery, in this paper, I replay a series of four thought experiments related to the discovery of the structure of the molecule of DNA. Only the fourth experiment was successful. This series of experiments reveals how a sequence of failures eventually leads the Algorithm to a discovery. This series permits to expose the key components of the mosaic reasoning, tiles and aggregates, local and global matching rules, and unstructured environment. In particular, it reveals the aggregates and the rules that played critical role in the discovery of the structure of DNA. They include the generator and the plug-in aggregates, the transformation and complementarity matching rules, and the type of unstructured environment. For the first time, the Algorithm of Discovery has been applied to replaying discoveries not related to LG and even to mathematics