ABSTRACT
This chapter describes consciousness, thinking and decision making as integrative, created as an intentional voluntary action and involving the mind, body and environment. It looks at issues in Artificial Intelligence (AI). There are many parallels between these areas, with many problems being essentially the same, though coming from various directions and couched in different language. The epistemological frame problem in AI and the perception of risk and how decisions are made are closely allied problem areas. In physics, mathematics enters into the picture in the form of equations, the terms and quantities of which represent defined entities or processes in the world. In short, the difference between pure mathematics and applied mathematics is that in the latter case, mathematical entities stand for something in nature, whereas in the former case, referred to as pure mathematics, all quantities are abstract – they don't stand for anything.
