The Revival of Structuralism: The Periodic Table of Mental Science

Physical science solved an age-old problem in the 19th century: what makes elements similar or dissimilar? Mendeleev generally is given credit for discovery of underlying structure chemical elements, known as periodic table. Like chemicals, qualia seem to share different relationships within a modality and between modalities. Wundt’s structuralism represents early effort build mind through data obtained by introspection. Unfortunately, have many other subjects, has been victimized behaviorism’s domination. And cognitive revolution did not completely eliminate unfavorable status consciousness, thus hampering revival unlike topics psychology. With subject consciousness having just about fully sanctioned beginning 1990s, time come table mental uncovering hidden patterns qualia. This paper proposes four scales intrinsic patterns: notion bipolar dimension, three complementaries, principle square opposition, double-cone system. They are able accommodate 15 modalities systematic unified way: chromatic, acoustic, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, exteroceptive motion, orientative, locus, proprioceptive magnitude, emotive, hedonistic, predicative.