The Nature of the Relation Between Psychology and Physics: An Argument for a Central Role of Electromagnetism in Thought and Behavior

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.

Modeling and Measurement of Interpersonal Attraction and Coordination in Charged Social Space-Time

“…But the microscopic quantum level may be statistically dominated by classical-like processes when extending to the macroscopic regime. Therefore, the kind of charged space-time proposed here must be considered most like that of a classical chemical eISSN www.neuroquantology.com 8 or electrochemical field of charged ions (Haas, 2011d).…”

A Brain Charge Mechanism Modeled in Synchronistic Dyadic Interpersonal Interaction

“…Currently, however, there is little or no research literature describing the possibility of such an explicit electrochemically based (i.e., "electromagnetic") model of charged individual cognition and coupled interpersonal behavior, and of genuine biophysical "positive" and "negative" states of mind (see discussion in Haas, 2011a;2011b;2011c;2011d). Yet it has long been known that neurobiological processes involve a large number of electrochemical phenomena, including action potentials, ion channel gating, etc.…”

“…This may become particularly important in optimally coupled interactions where individuals are matched in complementary ways during resonant synchronistic interpersonal interaction and in relation to other objects in the environment (Kelso and Engstrom, 2006;Stephens et al, 2010). The physical principle of brain charges would correlate directly with specific cognitions and would not be unlike the concept of electromagnetic attraction or repulsion, except that it is different in its biological mechanisms and manifestation (Haas, 2011c).…”

“…These fundamental biochemical principles can be used to support the hypothesis that cognitive and behavioral states are in fact truly electromagnetically "positive" and "negative" (Haas, 2011a;2011b;2011c). Positive and negative cognition and social interaction can be considered to be pairs of such charged physical states.…”

“…Much of this synchronous alignment and charge-driven behavior may take place beneath ordinary conscious awareness in the biochemistry of the brain and body, and to that extent it can be considered unconscious or non-conscious. There may often be a lack of awareness or understanding of the strength and mechanisms of this kind of overlapping of physical interpersonal chemical "bonding" (Haas, 2011a;2011c). Recent studies have begun to show that individuals in dyads and groups will exhibit a sense of coordinated timing even after entraining cues cease to provide the zeitgeber (Hove, 2008;Oullier et al, 2008;Valdesolo, 2010), but the effects have not been described in an electrodynamical way.…”