What is temporal gravity and why should you care?

Gravity has a powerful influence not only on the inanimate matter; in biological systems, it governs growth and balance. For this reason, gait (the degree of side-to-side movement during walking) is a reliable indicator of a mental decline in elderly people. But gravity also creates the pressure that slows the biological clock: the body ages faster in free space. Changes in gravity also regulate our mood, which is present in infancy. Children the world over enjoy swings and rocking in a cradle.  Even adults enjoy rocking chairs, free falls during parachuting, and bungee jumping. Rollercoasters simulate gravity by an upward vertical motion, giving a feeling of heaviness. At the top, there is a sudden transition from a contracted feeling to weightlessness, the sense of expansion. 

Emotions also imitate gravity. Relationships are analog to the hold of gravity. Our attachments, i.e., temporal or emotional gravity, generate an emotional rollercoaster, which intimately regulates our mood, the degree of mental comfort. As gravity constricts the body, emotional gravity is a feeling of tightness. Throughout history and all cultures, the transitions from emotional gravity (tension) to emotional release (feeling of spaciousness) have been recognized as pleasurable. It is no accident that we simulate this transition in so many ways. Even crying in difficulty or after a tragedy is such a process. Children’s stories from ancient times depict this transition from the emotional tension to release. The hero suffers and, the greater his suffering is, the more enjoyable his glorification afterward. Adventure, horror, cliffhangers, and suspense operate on the same principle. We suffer through every averse predicament and emotional tension, and the payoff at the end gives us emotional release. This is also the secret to the success of the twenty-four-hour news channels.

Therefore the environment intimately regulates our mood by controlling emotional gravity. Lack of temporal gravity is formed by low-entropy conditions (order, beauty), producing the feeling of satisfaction, happiness, well-being, relaxation, and excitement of the new. Interest and the body position are open, trusting. The excited dog smelling around or enclosed monkeys are willing to pull a lever to take a peek at the outside world: the new. The child curiously moves forward in a unique situation with excitement (this represents the original energy) or pulls back in worry or fear (meaning temporal gravity, the need for safety). 

Although the new is an elementary need, overwhelming and fast-paced information such as flickering light, strongly delineated patterns, or repeating mechanical noises provoke stress. In addition, the temporal tightness of emotional gravity constricts the mind, forming emotions such as anger, negligence, fear, paranoia, running, freezing, and adherence to the past. Even the language describes fear and guilt as demanding and heavy. This is why meditation is a powerful practice for those who experience stress, including most people. If you feel stressed, you should serve yourself beauty and joy. Even taking a deep breath should expand a constricted soul and mind.

The Book on Amazon                       Contact me               Mailing list 


Copyright © 2017 by Eva Deli

Multistage evolutionary process is supported by recent data

Global environment

Evolution produced highly ordered biological systems, particularly the human brain. Our incredible self-aware mind is capable of comprehending and understanding the world and itself. The widely accepted evolutionary drive toward increasing complexity is hard to reconcile with our everyday experience that disorder increases in nature. The book, The Science of Consciousness, introduces a cosmological view of evolution. After the Big Bang, physical evolution formed the elements, followed by organic molecule synthesis, particularly the chemical building blocks of life. Biological evolution transpires as a step-wise process, divided into distinct periods and eras, each characterized by special flora and fauna. 

Mass extinctions create an evolutionary opening that accelerates genetic innovations. In a fast-changing environment, genes and proteins acquire new functions and find new uses. At the beginning of the evolutionary period, new organisms, bizarre morphologies, unexpected features, and new species appear from almost nowhere in seemingly arbitrary evolutionary jumps. The brisk changes of early evolution give way to stable ecosystems; species form an interconnected and interacting structural web, such as predator-prey cycles, symbiosis, and others. The evolutionary period eventually becomes unstable; the environment cannot support the ecosystem, which inevitably moves toward an irreversible, final stage and collapse.

The idea of such a multistage evolutionary process is well supported. Important pieces of evolutionary innovations appear well ahead of their organizational importance. For example, a substantial part of the molecular architecture necessary for the evolution of the nervous or muscle system evolved in advance. Moreover, mutation frequency is related to population number! When the mutation frequency as a function of the population was examined, the entropy initially decreases during periods with low genetic concentration (increasing order of genetic innovations). Subsequently, it changes parallel with the increase in population (an arbitrary spreading of genetic material). 

The social aspects of evolutionary change also support the above idea. During the first vibrant, energetic stage of evolution, species from bacteria and fish to humans appear to lean toward generosity, leading to cooperation and altruism. The generosity appears most prevalent when mutations occur at an appreciable rate, which is only true for the first stage of evolution! With the increasing population number, the insufficient recycling of the nutrients frustrates the population. After a tipping point is reached, generosity disappears. In the third stage of evolution, cheating becomes the only feasible choice. The above findings can arise due to the three-staged evolutionary process introduced earlier. The latest computer modeling of evolution overwhelmingly shows that niches vacated by mass extinctions are quickly filled by newly emerging species. The conclusion is that repeated extinctions actually enhance the evolutionary fitness of surviving species, accelerating evolutionary change.

The evolutionary process is described here for animal systems, but the same should hold for all eukaryotes. Today, many species of wild animals are perfectly adapted to their living environments. As a result, they have small genetic diversity, making survival difficult or impossible during large environmental changes. Thus, their survival is easily challenged by global warming and the degradation of the environment. This understanding underlines our responsibility toward the environment and its inhabitants.

The Book on Amazon                         Contact me

Copyright © 2017 by Eva Deli

Why do we need consciousness science?

A 17th-century illustration of consciousness By Robert Fludd 

In recent years, neuroscience has gone through accelerated progress and transformation. However, establishing the physical basis of consciousness is necessary to turn it into a respected scientific field. The book The Science of Consciousness is a new contribution to this ongoing discussion, proposing a new physical worldview incorporating consciousness and evolution.

It has become increasingly clear that quantum approaches can explain consciousness. Today, the quantum-like modeling of cognition, such as the human mental lexicon, is a mainstream scientific idea. Psychology and other social sciences have increasingly turned to quantum mechanics tools in the past century. My theory builds on and supports these ideas but goes even further. I audaciously claim (and hope to prove) the brain’s electromagnetic balances give rise to the self-regulating mind. This physical entity is an elementary particle that interacts through emotions, the elementary forces of the mind. 

The idea might be strange or even shocking. However, radical ideas require a jump in conceptual thinking. Although a new scientific vista generally involves inexact details and concepts that are not fully worked out, data for this original scientific thought is amounting, to name a few:

1. It is challenging to retrace our thoughts, and we have minimal control over them in the first place. The mind seems to h‘ve a’‘mind’ of its own. People occasionally carry out actions they have difficulty explaining or regret afterward.

2. Why is quantum theory a superior predictor of human behavior in psychology and economy?

3. What role do emotions play in intellect, and why are we so powerless over our emotions?

4. Our temporal closeness to events can change our conceptual vista to the point of reaching a diametrically opposite decision about a project (for example, most people have grand plans for their life or retirement but carry out almost none of them).

5. The findings by esteemed scientists show the role of positive emotions in success and health and the opposite effects of negative emotions. These highly consistent findings are difficult to explain in any other way.

Understanding consciousness gives you the tools to reach ambitious, wholesome goals. It opens the book on human motivation, allowing a deeper understanding of others and the self. The book is available on Amazon.

Watch my video, "An Argument for a Consciousness Hypothesis" https://youtu.be/9cAGot1ZyZA

Sign up for my mailing list to receive future blogs.




Copyright © 2017 by Eva Deli

The Science of Consciousness, a hypothesis

'The Science of Consciousness' details the first scientific synthesis of theoretical physics, cosmology, consciousness, and evolution. The idea concerning the universe's organic unity started with an intuition about gravity. What does gravity have to do with consciousness? It is a fascinating and twisted story that goes back six years from the idea's conception to the book's publication in 2015.

Gravity is the most elemental force in the universe. No place can be insulated from it: it transverses space as it forms its fabric. Gravity appears to pull us toward the Earth, resulting from two opposing forces operating like a seesaw between gravity and anti-gravity. The closer we are to the center point of the seesaw, the smaller the force is. This is why flying out into free space reduces gravity until it seems to disappear altogether. Thus, gravity 'free' space is gravity neutral. 

Shockingly, our emotional attachments operate similarly over time. Emotional attachments to loved ones and even things make losses so painful; the emotional difficulty of separation is due to emotional gravity. Just as gravity gets weaker with increasing distance, time heals the pain of loss. Recognizing the analogy between these seemingly different phenomena formed my first intuition, which grew into an overarching hypothesis through diligent study and work. The fundamental knowledge base is as broad as an ocean: theoretical physics, neurology, physiology, cosmology, evolutionary biology, economy, sociology, and everything else that provides an answer to the pressing questions I had. During all this time, the original intuition has not changed. The hypothesis, supported by contemporary scientific research, grew into an encompassing whole with intricate details.

You can read 'The Science of Consciousness' on Amazon.
Join my mailing list. 

Copyright © 2017 by Eva Deli