Monday, November 30, 2015

The physical and mental phenomena is unified in a coherent world view

Space and time are two of dynamic systems' most important physical quantities. In the early twentieth century, Einstein's General relativity combined these quantities into spacetime, represented by second-degree differential equations. Although spacetime became a fixture of physics, the idea remains problematic. Space shortens only along one coordinate, but time slows evenly within affected regions. Navigation is possible in any direction in space, but time only moves forward.

We need to consider a cosmic evolution in our acceleratingly expanding universe. In string theory, elementary matter particles are energy vibrations occurring within a compact dimension, representing time. Therefore, space and time form the universe's two orthogonally conjoined energy fields, where space happens to be three-dimensional, whereas the compact dimensions are multi-dimensional.

Interaction with space changes the spatial curvature. Increasing field curvature imposes information content on the horizon, registered as the age of physical systems. The information content of our galactic neighborhood is shown as being over ten billion years old. Due to the complexity evolution requires, only matter with such enhanced age can produce life.

According to string theory, energy vibrations become visible matter, and the biological brain gives rise to the highly autonomous, self-regulating mind. Highly structured mental frequencies betray the nonlinear complexity of the mind. This is why research that examines automatic psychological operation, independent from conscious awareness, has exploded in recent years. Free will has been called into question. The traditional idea of intellect must be revised to explain personal, professional, and economic success. Social and emotional intelligence is an increasingly recognized factor in achievement. The relationship between emotion and cognition is considered new in scientific literature, from psychology to neurology.

Over millennia, philosophers and sages pointed out the unintuitive and multifarious nature of the mind. The laws of quantum mechanics can describe the mental world. String theory might explain the coherence of the material and mental realms. Like elementary particles, where the energy distribution is hidden until interaction, the vast majority of mental operation is hidden, not only from others but even from self-awareness. Is the mind analogous to material matter particles? Analogies to elementary particles can explain various, specific mental phenomena; see my article on the Physics of Selfhood.

A deeper understanding of consciousness allows us to map a congruent life; goals and inspirations can be efficiently reached. It explains why negativity constricts time (appropriately called stress), slowing mental progress. Emotional stability and optimism are indispensable qualities of intellectual excellence.

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Monday, November 23, 2015

The importance of practicing happiness

Happiness is expressed in an internationally understood language, elation, laughter or jumping for joy. Because it is implicated with well-being, health and even longevity (the famous Minnesota nun study and others), it has become an essential field of study, known as positive psychology. Happiness builds trust, and inversely only a comfortable, trusting mind can be happy. So belief underlies and supports happiness. Even laughing is the result of a tense or puzzling situation being resolved to be innocent, comprehensible, a relaxing feeling of confidence and trust. However, the quality or strength of belief or the degrees of satisfaction, courage, and joy, can significantly differ. The first, most basic level is money or power. These two are so closely connected; historically they were invariably one and the same. The second level is trust through knowledge, and the third is love. We will examine them in order.

The resulting differences are based on the level of emotional gravity, an emotional analog of gravity, which is analyzed in detail in earlier posts. Emotional (i.e., temporal) gravity corresponds to the strength of connection to things or people. Small emotional gravity leads to trust, which takes things granted and verification unnecessary. Emotional gravity is generally inversely related to confidence and education level. Insecurity makes it necessary to accumulate things and form a tight connection with family members, which can lead to abusing relationships. Children and young people are more trusting and adapt quickly to changes. Emotional gravity increases with age, and changes are stressful for the elderly. Trust increases with more access to 'things,' so trust is a cultural (trust also increases with democratization), as well as wealth issue. An extensive 2012 study examined happiness as a function of financial means in various countries. Not surprisingly, the study found a positive relationship between income growth and overall satisfaction. However, there is a dark side of wealth, because the satiation 'richness' point is continuously re-positioned. Striving for greater and greater wealth is a tilted viewpoint, which always denies full happiness. A sudden change of financial means, such as winning the lottery generally does not change the mind, therefore the attachment to possessions (the emotional gravity). People who suddenly find themselves awash in money not necessarily become trusting. In fact, it is often found that lottery winners are usually back to their prior financial state and the happiness of the recipients also returns close to its original level. The reversal of fortune of the prize recipients probably can be explained by the difficulty or mental change.

Completion of a problematic task involves hard, systematic work is very different from the sheer luck of lottery winners. Persistent work and study lead to positive mental transformation (Csikszentmihalyi) via trust, generosity (less attachment to possessions) and results in long-term satisfaction. This mental state, in turn, leads to decisions, which positively influence a person's social, professional status and health. Consequently, it is regularly found that people with higher education level are more trusting and they tend to make better financial and health decisions. In other words, learning leads to long-term happiness.

Love is the most important and most significant source of trust. Those who trust are trustworthy. Thus love is a two-way street. This is why we tend to find dedicated people in occupations, which requires love. Love exists in emotional animals, mammals, and birds (and even crocodiles). Love will allow a bird to risk her life to protect its progeny. It fortifies the hero's determination to win in a difficult undertaking. In children stories and literary classics, it is love that transforms and moves toward a moral upper ground. To love is to trust the beloved. Thus love can be directed toward God or abstract mathematics. Love and trust lead to generosity, honesty, and cooperation.

Who does not follow his heart, cripples his soul.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Quantum entanglement is characteristic of the mind

In the material world, apparent randomness often obscures the underlying determinism. The combination of predictability with the unexpected creates a fractal structure in nature. Surprisingly, a fractal structure's characteristics can also be recognized in the temporal rhythm of mental phenomena. Thus, cognitive processes obey the laws of quantum mechanics, and the mind forms resonance and interference analog to material systems. Social unrest was modeled as a coherent energy transmission of a social laser.

Entanglement is a phenomenon where observing one part of the system instantaneously affects the state in another part of the system, even over large distances. This bizarre instantaneous mutual determination was recently confirmed by the wave function. Quantum theory can model emotional behavior during concept combinations because entanglement activates associative target words simultaneously. In addition, social entanglement has a role in shaping social structure. Entanglement is a perceived power difference that relaxes one partner while oppressing the other. Boundaries and limitations box in the inferior person.

One person can even form entanglement between two temporal events! In the mind, nonlocality includes fiction time travel to the past that updates comprehension. The moment of recognition miraculously expands understanding in time, pushing it into the past and the future. In this way, childhood memories turn into adult understanding in the adult's mind. Analogous to the quantum mechanic's particle experiment, new information can completely overturn a cemented mental reality. When we discover a secret, our comprehension expands to the past, the time of the first experience. This timelessness means that understanding can be influenced by great temporal expanses. Ideas in the hidden corners of the mind can be manipulated by information years or even decades later. For example, sexual harassment and abuse are demeaning and degrading for the victim. However, even years later, new information can reverse the relationship dynamics Victims of sexual or social misconduct experience healing by revealing or constructively processing past misconduct.

We have more power over our personal history than we realize. By creating a positive meaning for the past, we give rise to a better future.

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Monday, November 2, 2015

The role of family in the internet age

Bald eagles, which mate for life and raise their young together, are among the very few animal species with some form of family structure. Human intellectual abilities make a social and family structure with inter-generational consequences possible, which plays a vital role in preserving culture, behavioral patterns, and even social stability. In hierarchic societies, families were the bastions of safety and security, the means to hold onto power, position, and wealth. It was the life insurance policy for the middle class and the poor. The family could be a tool to increase social influence and spread political power (kleptocracy).

In families, not only money but occupation and titles were handed down. The family could cushion the individual from natural and social dangers, hooligans, bandits, and local rulers. Like creating walls in the ocean, inherited money and nepotic influence often extinguish creative energy, originality's spark, and lead to mediocre comfort. Since in difficult times, the family provided security, it needed to be beyond criticism. Individual problems had to be hidden from the outside, and nonconforming members need to be shunned and disgraced. The large role of the family significantly restricted personal freedom.

In democratic societies, the economic role of the family has decreased. The societal safety net provides pension, health, and end-of-life care to the elderly on a level unmatched by family care. Instead of being handed down, occupations are becoming the expression of individual talents and creative mental potential. Young people do not expect nepotism and family connections to help them. They chart their own path, far from their hometown.

As connections and inherited finances will play a less important role in individual success, the family's institutional role will undoubtedly continue to decline. When the family is not a source of financial security or societal position, covering up weaknesses and deficiencies is no longer necessary; the family can open up to become safe islands of nurture and love. The love and caring within the family that flows out into the community lifts up everyone.

Trust in the social environment and future allows some intellectual billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and others, to give away their wealth. If everybody feels supported by our social institutions, then medical and technological progress are only limited by our imagination.

Picture credit: Talento Tec