Equilibrium in Nash’s mind

Donald Capps suggested the hypothesis that “the Nash equilibrium is descriptive of the normal brain, whereas the game theory formulated by John van Neumann, which Nash’s theory challenges, is descriptive of the schizophrenic brain”. The paper offers arguments in its favor. They are from psychiatry, game theory, set theory, philosophy and theology. The Nash equilibrium corresponds to wholeness, stable emergent properties as well as to representing actual infinity on a material, limited and finite organ as a human brain.

Equilibrium in Nash’s mind

Donald Capps suggested the hypothesis that “the Nash equilibrium is descriptive of the normal brain, whereas the game theory formulated by John van Neumann, which Nash’s theory challenges, is descriptive of the schizophrenic brain”. The paper offers arguments in its favor. They are from psychiatry, game theory, set theory, philosophy and theology. The Nash equilibrium corresponds to wholeness, stable emergent properties as well as to representing actual infinity on a material, limited and finite organ as a human brain.

Equilibrium in Nash’s mind

Donald Capps suggested the hypothesis that “the Nash equilibrium is descriptive of the normal brain, whereas the game theory formulated by John van Neumann, which Nash’s theory challenges, is descriptive of the schizophrenic brain”. The paper offers arguments in its favor. They are from psychiatry, game theory, set theory, philosophy and theology. The Nash equilibrium corresponds to wholeness, stable emergent properties as well as to representing actual infinity on a material, limited and finite organ as a human brain.

Principlist Bioethics and Pastoral Theology

This chapter begins with a discussion of principlism, focusing on its limits, thereby providing an opening for pastoral theology to contribute to bioethics. It then discusses several definitions of pastoral theology, giving special attention to various ways theology and psychology may be related in pastoral theology. A specific vision of pastoral theology is offered (Robert Dykstra’s view of pastoral theology as aesthetic imagination) as well as a means of positioning bioethics and pastoral theology (Paul Tillich’s method of correlation, informed by art theory). The discussion focuses on the theories of pastoral theologian Donald Capps and art theorist Rudolf Arnheim. The chapter closes with a discussion of images and ethics.