One of the main reasons for extremely successful development of
physics during the last three hundreds years was mathematical
formalization of this science. This formalization was started with
creating an adequate mathematical model of physical space, namely,
{\it cartesian product} of real lines. Creation of this model took a
few hundreds years and it was based on great contributions both from
mathematics and physics. In the mathematical framework the highest
point of development was constructing of the field of real numbers
${\bf R}$ and elaboration of the notion of the cartesian product
$X_{\rm{phys}}= {\bf R}^3$ representing physical space. This
mathematical object became the fruitful model of physical space. The
notion of absolute physical space was introduced in physics through
efforts of Galilei and Newton. Then through of efforts of
Lobachevskii it became clear that the Euclidean geometry is not the
unique possible geometry (at least from mathematical viewpoint).
Then the great contribution was done by Riemann who introduced a
notion of a manifold. The latter became the mathematical basis of
Einstein's theory of general relativity. At the beginning of 20th
century it became clear that it is impossible to incorporate so
called quantum phenomena neither into the three dimensional
``physical space'' $X_{\rm{phys}}= {\bf R}^3$ nor into the four
dimensional Minkovsky space-time. There was created a new model of
space, {\it quantum Hilbert space} $X_{\rm{quantum}}.$ The main
distinguishing mathematical feature of this space is its infinite
dimension. It is very important for our further considerations to
remark that, nevertheless, the space $X_{\rm{quantum}}$
geometrically does not differ so much from the space
$X_{\rm{phys}}= {\bf R}^3.$ If we restrict geometry of
$X_{\rm{quantum}}$ onto one of its finite dimensional subspaces we
obtain again the Euclidean geometry (and in the relativistic
framework the pseudo-Euclidean one). Thus even the transition from
classical to quantum physics did not induce something new with
respect to number structure of space and its geometry. One could say
that during a few hundreds years physicists have been exploring more
or less the same class of mathematical models of space.
I believe that in cognitive sciences there should be used the same
strategy of geometrization as in physics. And the starting point of
such a geometric development of cognitive sciences should be
creation of an adequate notion of {\it mental space}
$X_{\rm{mental}}.$ First steps in realization of this program were
done in \cite{KH1}--\cite{KH12}. The crucial point is that it seems
that the real space model that was applied so successfully in
physics is not adequate for mental phenomena. There should be found
new mathematical models of space that would be more adequate for
mental processes. In \cite{KH1}--\cite{KH12} we proposed to consider
mental spaces having {\it treelike} structure. Such spaces have
natural {\it ultrametric geometries} (which differs crucially from
Euclidean or pseudo-Euclidean geometries used in physical theories).
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One of the main aims of this work is to give a detailed presentation
of our program of {\it ultrametric geometrization of cognitive
sciences.}
Nova Science Publishers , 2006. p. 117-185