The semantic theory of mental development

It has been held for centuries that mind and body are divided by an unbridgeable gulf, but in reality there is no actual proof that they develop with totally different mechanisms. There are, on the contrary, some intriguing common features in their developments. We have seen that a universal grammar must appear in a very early phase of mind development, and in that phase we can rightly say that a child has a species-specific mind, or a specietypic mind, because that mental state is shared by all members of our species. 

Let us now summarise the main points (1) there is a phylotypic stage in the development of the body and a specietypic stage in the development of the mind (2) there is a body plan in the development of the body and a universal grammar in the development of the mind (3) there is incomplete information in the development of the body and incomplete stimuli in the development of the mind. If we put these conclusions together, we obtain a semantic model of mind development just as we did for embryonic development  

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The third model of semantic biology, in conclusion, is the idea that The mind is a trinitary system made of mental genotype, mental specietype and mental phenotype. Another version is the semantic theory of mental development Mental development is a sequence of two distinct processes of reconstruction from incomplete information, each of which increases the complexity of the system in a convergent way. The first process builds the specietypic mind (the universal grammar), while the second leads to the individual mind. ... 

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