Biology, Machines, and Mind and Reality to a World Famous Psychiatrist
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/06/12
Dr. Evangelos Katsioulis, M.D., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D. is a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist running his private practice in Thessaloniki, Greece. Having perceived the importance and impact of internet in our lives, he is also professionally active offering online psychotherapy and counseling for Psycall.com and Shezlong.com. He earned an M.D., Medical Doctor Diploma (2000), M.Sc., Medical Research Technology (2003), M.A., Philosophy (2012), and Ph.D., Psychopharmacology (2015), awarded by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Dr. Katsioulis is mostly challenged by expression, thinking and communication. Therefore, he is involved in writing articles, novels, quotes and screenplays. Since 2001, he is the Founder of the World Intelligence Network (WIN), an international organization targeting the detection, development and appreciation of abilities. Feeling a citizen of the world, he currently lives in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece.
On January 1, 2015, we published an interview. Here, we talk about the potential for the merger between biology and machines, and the ultimate relationship between mind and reality.
Asking Katsioulis about the future of biology and machines, and the potential for the merger of the two, he remarked on the control of machines by humans. Although, we remain bound to biology, to the capacities and so limitations of our natures.
The machines may help with the replacement of some dysfunctional biological components or missing ones. As he stated, “We do control machines (for now), however we cannot control or overcome biological rules. Machines could substitute some missing, mistaken or dysfunctional biological structures, however we are in no position to support artificial life at least for now.”
Humans control the machines. The machines can help with the healthy and functional living of biological life, presumably our own mainly. Regardless, we seem in an unfit position to support said artificial life. In a way, we marginally handle ourselves – remaining barely kept from nuclear catastrophe, destruction of the climate and environment for decent human life, and so on.
Katsioulis continued, “Having in mind the science progress and knowledge advancement within the last century, we may soon manage to understand much more about life and even copy biology principles creating a kind of life.”
The target of the question came from the observation of the integration of biological systems and artificial systems. Noting a common interest, Katsioulis, with a tone of inquiry and insight about the interviewer (and humor), stated, “There are no limits in this integration. From your question, I could assume that we both like science fiction movies.”
When I turned attention from biological systems and artificial systems into the deeper question about the ultimate relationship between mind and reality, Katsioulis mentioned the mind as an information processor to help us. It seemed like a concrete definition with a psychological orientation for the definition.
Bearing in mind, the basis for Katsioulis, as a life work, comes from the desire to know the soul of a person, a human, or humankind. That is, this harkens back to the original goal of psychiatry with the intent to know the soul or the entire makeup of a person, a human, or humankind, not only the narrowed focus on the behavioral and the mental as in, for example, psychology.
“Mind is an advanced personal processor, responsible for the perception, reaction and adjustment in reality. We need mind to live our reality. I suppose we all know what is the condition of a body with a non-functioning mind,” Katsioulis elaborated, “Reality is an objective and independent set of conditions, events, happenings, incidents, people, principles, facts.”
The mind, to Katsioulis, amounts to something to make the objective something subjective. Katsioulis continued, “Our mind personalizes this objective information to a subjective representation in us. Mind function is influenced by factors, such as perceptual ability, reasoning, previous knowledge and experiences, psychological status and mental state.”
He notes the presence in an event, the comprehension of oneself and others, the difference in those states of perception of the same event, and the impacts these have on individual lives.
“For instance, we have all been present in an event and our understanding of what happened may significantly defer from what anyone else present states. So, we need mind to live our reality and we need reality to use our mind,” Katsioulis concluded.
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Dr. Katsioulis earned the best performance in the Cerebrals international contest (2009), best performance in the Cerebrals NVCP-R international contest (2003), best performance in physics for the national final exams in Greece (1993), and third place in the Maths national contest in Thessaloniki, Greece (1989).
Dr. Katsioulis scored some of the highest intelligence test scores (SD16) on international record with IQ scores of 205 on the NVCP-R [Rasch equated raw 49/54] in 2002, 196 on the Qoymans Multiple Choice #3 [ceiling] in 2003, 192 on the NVCP-E [Rasch equated raw 35/40] in 2002, 186 on the NVCP-R [Fluid Intelligence Index Score] in 2002, 183 on the NVCP-E [Fluid Intelligence Index Score] in 2002, 183 on the Cattell Culture Fair III A+B [ceiling-1] in 2003, 180+ on the Bonnardel BLS4 – 2T [ceiling] in 2003, and 180+ on the WAIS-R [extrapolated full scale] in 2002.
Subsequently, Dr. Katsioulis remains a member in over 60 high IQ societies. In addition, he is the president and founder of Anadeixi Academy of Abilities Assessment and World Intelligence Network (WIN), and OLYMPIQ, HELLIQ, CIVIQ, GRIQ, QIQ, IQID, GREEK high IQ societies. He talked here with Scott Douglas Jacobsen who founded In-Sight Publishing and In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal.
In one listing, Dr. Katsioulis is listed among other smartest people in the world including Paul Allen, Christopher Michael Langan, Judit Polgar, Marilyn vos Savant, John H. Sununu, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kim Ung-Yong, Mislav Predavec, Manahel Thabet, Rick Rosner, Chris Hirata, Steven Pinker, Ivan Ivec, Garry Kasparov, Terence Tao, Scott Aaronson, Nikola Poljak, Alan Guth, Donald Knuth, Noam Chomsky, Magnus Carlsen, Shahriar Afshar, Akshay Venkatesh, Saul Kripke, Ruth Lawrence, Grigori Perelman, Andrew Wiles, and Edward Witten.
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