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Einstein's general relativity uncovered gravity as the field geometry measured by its effects. Consciousness evolved in interaction with the material world, absorbing its operational principles. Increasingly sophisticated responses to stimuli engendered a brain operation that mirrors the physical world. For example, society forms a temporal field analogous to gravity. We cannot see or touch the temporal field, but its presence constantly regulates our behavior. The temporal field can cause powerful emotional reactions, such as shame, pride, joy, etc. In this process, emotional self-regulation guides attention and cognitive functions, including perception, memory, thoughts, and behavior. We do not have to be conscious of our feelings to be regulated and influenced by them.
Sensory perception is an automatic, involuntary process. We cannot 'decide' not to process sensory stimuli or read road signs because stimulus impinges on the mind by shifting the brain's energy balance. Moreover, sensory perception also requires energy, which the brain 'pays' for through the energy requirement of brain frequencies. Thus, sensory processing is an energy-information exchange with the environment.
The brain's highly fluid neural organization allows an active balancing of electromagnetic gradients based on charge conservation. The above drawing represents the stimulus path from the sensory cortical surface toward the frontal associative regions. The energy requirement of neuronal activation extinguishes the information flow and forms an electric potential between the limbic and cortical areas, which reverses the flow via slow oscillations (Figure above, #2). The information flow reversal from the frontal brain recovers the neutral energy state. The sensory transmission toward the sensory cortex by fast oscillations and response by slow oscillations indicates the polarity effects of the brain's electromagnetic flows.
Computer simulations based on EEG, fMRI, and other techniques can pinpoint the tendency for unhealthy emotional states (i.e., the brain's energy balance) in patients and predict proneness for depression, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), anxiety, and other conditions (there are already some results on this front). You can find more detailed information in my book, The Science of Consciousness, or manuscript, Consciousness, a Cosmic Phenomenon.
