Ultrametric Model of Mind, I: Review
  We mathematically model Ignacio Matte Blanco's principles of symmetric and
asymmetric being through use of an ultrametric topology. We use for this the
highly regarded 1975 book of this Chilean psychiatrist and pyschoanalyst (born
1908, died 1995). Such an ultrametric model corresponds to hierarchical
clustering in the empirical data, e.g. text. We show how an ultrametric
topology can be used as a mathematical model for the structure of the logic
that reflects or expresses Matte Blanco's symmetric being, and hence of the
reasoning and thought processes involved in conscious reasoning or in reasoning
that is lacking, perhaps entirely, in consciousness or awareness of itself. In
a companion paper we study how symmetric (in the sense of Matte Blanco's)
reasoning can be demarcated in a context of symmetric and asymmetric reasoning
provided by narrative text.
