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The Nature of the Relation Between Psychology and Physics: An Argument for a Central Role of Electromagnetism in Thought and Behavior
Alan S. Haas
Abstract
This paper hypothesizes key physical principles underlying human psychology
fundamental to thought and social behavior. The model supposes when two
individuals are involved with each other they are neurologically and therefore
physically coupled or “bonded” with each other in a special way. There is an
attractive-repulsive connecting force that guides behavior primarily localized in the
neurochemistry of the brain. We are attracted to or repelled from objects and
stimuli in a fundamentally electromagnetic way, directly correlated with the
biochemical/electrochemical storage of charged information driving behavior in the
brain. Neurobiological activities, e.g., ion channels, action potentials, and
neurotransmitters, are chemical processes in and of themselves; it follows that
behavior must be deterministically influenced by them. The model uniquely
proposes that physical coupling occurs through space and often in approximately
simultaneous time due to the summation of microscopic neuronal events leading to
cognition and behavior in the compartmentalized “clockwork” of separate but
synchronized brains. This may result in a coherence in thought and behavior through
an interdependent physiological “force,” sometimes resulting in what have
previously been considered to be unusual coincidental phenomena such as
synchronicity or telepathy. Historical origins of the model are traced, and preceding
ideas are explained using a new conceptual foundation for synchronistic effects in
interactive thought, feeling, and social behavior
Keywords
neurobiology, electrochemical, electromagnetism, quantum-like, cognition, electrostatic, bioelectric, psychology
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