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Ordinary human consciously-perceptive “thinking” and sensory-motor interaction with the “real” external physical world is so very deeply ingrained in our very being, so comp1ete1y natural and familiar that we, even as working theory-based scientists, seem to find little need to make this truly miraculous ability obey a set of rules, principles and laws as we have required in other areas of investigation or philosophical study. It is quite casually assumed that these “mild” processes by which we create images or “pictures” in the mind‘s eye of the “real” world from what we see, hear, smell or feel, as well as the vivid internal scenarios by which we recall past events, dream, examine experiences of others or make trial runs of future planned activities must reside somewhere in the brain, all presumably utilizing merely processes adapted from the ordinary biochemical ,neuronal, hormonal synaptic and axonal processes that are currently becoming partially understood. It is popular to consider these mental experiences as epiphenomenal reports from basic brain processes on the state of the outer physical world where the action “really” is taking place.
One can make an attractive start to unifying this mind-brain status and may even gain a moderately solid scaffold of theory on which to build, by Introducing just three broad principles. First there Is the Code-message topology principle which declares that any message of thought, reason, perception or control must be formulated in lexical units, words, images, character set-elements, scans or schemata that are recognizable and manipulable by the mental system. These mental elements that I like to call thinkcels, by analogy with computer pixcels and the newer three dimensional boxcels, with the additional requirement of a biological type taxonomy to order and provide syntax for the elements lets us do studies of fundamental biolinguistics and incipient evolutionary development of conscious, subconscious and super conscious mentition.
Next there is the introduction of a universally pervasive consciousness and perhaps purposeful attribute of nature, quite separate from ordinary physical matter and energy domains which utilizes this physical material universe as a substrate on which to build clusters of conscious perceptive activity, perhaps in a human, dog, bacterium or community of Individuals. Such concepts as ordinary experiential time with its arrow and its implicit and inflexible Cartesian coordinates moving in time, become merely one specia1 linguistic form of the many physical and spiritual modes of perception.
The third principle-set, and the one requiring most Intellectual courage to introduce, is the conceptual matrix-inversion of perceptual consciousness, making the ordinary “real” world the epiphenomenon. We almost universally think of a “real” world out there that we may sometimes view clearly and sometimes darkly and with large aberrations through the fuzzy glasses of our senses and reason.
By starting with the axiom that “reality” lies in the clustered perceptions of universal consciousness and purpose, utilizing the imageries and figures of thought, plans and actions that these materials and organisms can construct, the atomic, energetic, biological domains become the epiphenomena on which subconscious, conscious and super conscious reality operate in their meandering approach to universal consciousness and purpose much as entropy for a whole system monotonically increases.
October 30, 1985