The Operationalization of the unconscious from Matte Blanco's bi-logic to computation

摘要

This paper presents the conceptualization proposed by Ignacio Matte Blanco of the functioning of conscious and unconscious thinking. In his original view the two ways of thinking are conceived as two distinct logics, “symmetrical” and “asymmetrical” logics. In this study the fundamentals of his concepts are identified and re-elaborated in a more formal way, with the aim of developing an operational and dynamic functional structure that evolves over time and that includes the affective value of objects. On this basis a computational implementation of the conscious-unconscious interaction that employs Learning Classifier Systems (LCS) is put forward. The reason for this choice is that LCS have a structural affinity with the proposed ideas, and in particular they allow to model directly the psychodynamic concept of “internal reality”.