Mind-Brain-Body System’s Dynamics

All the current computational mind-brain models are based on the mechanistic (mechanical philosophy) and deterministic vision of the world, conceived in the sign of Cartesian dualism and Newtonian physics, which operate in every sector of knowledge and know-how by reason of a universal mechanistic order. At present the Western theories about the position of human mind in Nature can be reduced to five: Materialism, Metaphysical idealism, Dualism, Holism, Quantum. Based on the identification of two distinct and imbricated physical planes of reality, namely the plane or domain of tension and the plane or domain of energy, a relationship-based alternative explanation of the mind-brain-body system non-linear dynamics is advanced. The paleoanthropological and psychologic roots of the anthropopoietic process are discussed. As advanced in previous works, a cosmogonic hypothesis is summarized on the possible derivation (and subsequent coexistence) of the physical dimension defined by the Planck constant from (with) a physical dimension defined by a non-uniform distribution of tension gradients, the “raw material” of which the mental phenomenon it’s made of. Biological systems are defined as non-linear dissipative systems embedded by super-complex anticipatory systems relying on thermodynamics of non-equilibrium, at the phase boundary between chaotic and ordered (coherent) regimes. The role played by nerve cells in the phylogenetic diversification process is also discussed. In conclusion, an anthropological, phenomenological and physical interpretation of mind, consciousness and the mind-brain-body system’s dynamics is advanced. Mind is not an intrinsic property of matter, nor a state of matter. Mind is a particular way of being of tension in relation to energy, made available when the autopoietic dynamic of a biological system is mediated by the neurologic relational module. Mind is grafted on the stream of sensations (state variations) elapsing within the neuro-dependent dynamics while energy merges into tension on the edge of chaos, that is, a stream of state variations experienced as events, i.e. knots of relations non isolated nor isolatable from the whole in which they are comprised, whose value and relevance is species-specific dependent.

• Tension Domain vs Energy Domain
• Deterministic Chaos
• Spin-Internal Motion
• Tension|Energy <?|Ê> Exotic Objects
• Mindedness
• Mind-Brain-Body Dynamics

1. General Premises

The brain being indeed a machine, we must not hope to find its artifice through other ways than those which are used to find the artifice of the other machines. It thus remains to do what we would do for any other machine; I mean to dismantle it piece by piece and to consider what these can do separately and together.

Nicolaus Steno Nicolaus Steno’s lecture on the anatomy of the brain (1669)

The Newtonian determinism taught that the physical world is governed by iron laws and everything in the physical world is predictable and thus ultimately controllable. According to it a physical system is comparable to a mechanical system, that is, made up of independent macro and microscopic parts that interact only with adjacent parts, developing a behavior that is deterministic over time. This is the principle on which all the current computational models of the brain are based. In most of the scientific literature, mind is considered an epiphenomenon of the body (particularly the brain). Brain is considered the seat of mind, mind is the software and brain its hardware. The current neurobiological approach tries to explain the mind as a byproduct of physico-chemical processes involving the billions of neurons in the human brain and its various components are the thought process, emotions, intelligence, awareness, consciousness and the like.

The mind would correspond to a cognitive system comparable to an information processor, subdivided into different components or modules, functionally interconnected by as many circuits or neural networks, which may extend into multiple brain areas. The task is to associate to each module the statistically most relevant neuronal circuit in relation to function. The result is a map of anatomical-functional correlates that link certain psychodynamic requirements to certain neurodynamic requirements, from whose state of integrity depends on the quality of an individual’s relationship life.

However, the current neurobiological approach it fails to explain mind’s physical consistency and the experiential aspect of the subjective state of being oneself, or the “I” experience which everyone experiences in day to day life. It even fails to explain how billions, or millions, or thousands, or even tens of neurons work together to produce the brain’s activity¹. A key clue to explaining how we are drawing up increasingly detailed and complex functional maps of the brain, human and otherwise, and yet have still barely scratched the surface of the astonishing Central Nervous System (CNS) is to be found in Rene Descartes’ classical physics-based dualistic and reductionist approach (mind and matter belong to two totally different planes of reality, science can deal only with the investigation of res extensa, excluding a priori the possibility of investigating the fictitious, subjectively experienced plane of reality res cogitans, interestingly, contemporary neuroscientists are looking for an explanation of something, namely mind, using tools that have been designed not to deal with it, which leads them to believe that mental activity is produced by neuro-electromagnetic-brain activity) and even more in Nicolaus Steno’s suggestion that we should treat the brain as a machine.

The mechanistic (mechanical philosophy) and deterministic vision of the world, conceived in the sign of Cartesian dualism and Newtonian physics, will inspire one of the two souls of the Enlightenment, the Technophilous soul, whose utilitarian vocation, conceived in the West and exported all over the world thanks to four Industrial Revolutions, will operate in every sector of knowledge and know-how by reason of a universal mechanistic order [3]. In this regard, Matthew Cobb writes [4]: “Machine” has meant very different things over the centuries, and each of those meanings has had consequences for how we view the brain. In Steno’s time the only kinds of machine that existed were based on either hydraulic power or clockwork. These soon proved limited in the insights they could provide about the brain in terms of its structure or function, and no one now looks at the brain this way. With the discovery that nerves respond to electrical stimulation, in the nineteenth century the brain was seen first as some kind of telegraph network and then, following the identification of neurons and synapses, as a telephone exchange, allowing for flexible organization and output (this metaphor is still occasionally encountered in research articles). Since the 1950s our ideas have been dominated by concepts that surged into biology from computing―feedback loops, information, codes and computation. But although many of the functions we have identified in the brain generally involve some kind of computation, there are only a few fully understood examples, and some of the most brilliant and influential theoretical intuitions about how nervous systems might “compute” have turned out to be completely wrong. Above all, as the mid-twentieth-century scientists who first drew the parallel between brain and computer soon realized, the brain is not digital. Even the simplest animal brain is not a computer like anything we have built, nor one we can yet envisage. The brain is not a computer, but it is more like a computer than it is like a clock, and by thinking about the parallels between a computer and a brain we can gain insight into what is going on inside both our heads and those of animals. Exploring these ideas about the brain―the kinds of machine we have imagined brains to be―makes it clear that, although we are still far from fully understanding the brain, the ways in which we think about it have become much richer than in the past. (…) A number of scientists are now realizing that, by viewing the brain as a computer that passively responds to inputs and processes data, we forget that it is an active organ, part of a body that is intervening in the world and which has an evolutionary past that has shaped its structure and function. We are missing out key parts of its activity. In other words, the metaphors we use shape our ideas in ways that are not always helpful. (…) Despite the tsunami of brainrelated data being produced by laboratories around the world, we are in a crisis of ideas about what to do with all that data, about what it all means. I think that this reveals that the computer metaphor, which has served us so well for over half a century, may be reaching its limits, just as the idea of a brain as a telegraph system eventually exhausted its power in the nineteenth century.

Over centuries Western philosophers have questioned the position of human mind, understood as mind endowed with consciousness (a mind without consciousness is like a boat without helmsman, a condition that in addition to being unfavorable for navigation on the rough seas of life, is definitely useless in a world conceived in order to satisfy Homo Sapiens et Faber will to power), in Nature and several theories have been formulated, but at present the alternatives taken into consideration can be reduced to five:

1) Materialism. Mind is a product of the brain, or more accurately a by-product of the survival functions that the brain realizes for the organism. As organisms become more complex, they require more complex “computers” to head for food, the partner and the various resources needed to survive and reproduce. At a certain point of this development mind appears. There for mind is not the primary datum of the real world: it is an “epiphenomenon” which really manifests itself only in those that possess sufficiently complex brains.

2) Metaphysical idealism. Mind is a fundamental reality: matter is nothing but an illusion created by human mind. In the evolution of the universe, mind was the first reality, and it is still the first (and perhaps the only) reality. The material universe is nothing more than the creation of human mind when interpreting, resorting to its peculiar mental-consciousness nature, the world around. We find this alternative in all post-Neolithic internal representations of the external reality, including the Eastern one. Oriental philosophies, e.g. the Vedic doctrine (particularly the last portions of the Vedas referred to as Upanishads) from India, do not subscribe to the Cartesian body-mind dichotomy. Instead, these philosophies consider mind (manas) and body respectively as the gross and grosser aspect of an underlying unitary reality. The ancient seers (the rishis) of the East proclaimed in the Upanishads (the essence of Vedas) the Unitary approach of Non-duality (Adwaitha) and considered the outer world as an extension of “Self”. They argue that the only thing that exists is unconditioned Consciousness (called by various names and degrees as “Brahman”, “Purusha” etc.). The world as we see it is just a projection of the unitary unconditioned Consciousness. The individualized conditioned consciousness is explained as a perceptual error due to ignorance (Avidya) which begets a feeling of “I” ness (Asmitha). Because of attachment to objects by way of love, desire, liking (Raaga) and hatred dislike or aversion (Dwesha), the individualized conditioned consciousness gets entangled into the web of the world, forgetting the true nature of Self as universal-unconditioned Consciousness [5].

Accordingly, mind is the subtle form of matter and therefore of the body and its components, which are to be considered as grossest forms of matter. Consciousness, however, is considered finer than “mind-matter” and all pervasive, omnipresent and omniscient. Here consciousness is explained in the singular and as the only reality, but appearing in its manifestations as plural due to ignorance (Avidya) or to the identification of one self, i.e. the feeling of “I” ness (egoism), with the instrument of perception and their functions and experience (Asmitha). The one appearing as many is then a perceptual error.

3) Dualism. Mind and matter are both fundamental but completely different: in humans they are associated through the brain. The manifestations of the mind cannot be explained by the systems that manifest it, nor by the extraordinarily complex brains of human beings. In the case of human beings, mind is associated with a material brain, but this brain is only the seat of mind and does not identify with it.

4) Holism. Matter and mind constitute a whole that cannot be divided, neither theoretically nor practically. The distinction (introduced in Western thought by Descartes) between mind and matter is completely unfounded: ultimately mind and matter form a single integrated. We must accept them and treat them in this light, without worrying about the place and the form in which they manifest themselves.

5) Quantum model. Matter and mind are both real but are not fundamental: they evolve together starting from an even deeper level of reality. The roots of both matter and mind extend into a deeper layer of reality which in itself is neither mental nor material. Matter and also mind have evolved starting from a common cosmic womb: the energy field of the quantum vacuum (zero point quantum field). Interestingly, the emerging Quantum model relies on the fact that it is fashionable to consider Quantum Mechanics as a replacement for the phrase “anything goes” and once anything goes, you can have anything you want, including a Quantum Mind.

Aim of the present work is to put forward a relationship-based alternative, which rejects as false and misleading the atomistic (Newtonian) and pyramidal (Darwinian) vision of reality, affirming that every element of reality, physical and psychical, it exists only as a relationships system embedded into other relationships systems. What we observe, at any level, are not building blocks of reality but intertwined patterns of reality [6].

From its etymological profile derive two different meanings. The first is linked to the Sanskrita root chid, akin to the proto-Indo-European root *sker, and establishes the intrinsically discriminative nature of conscience-consciousness, its tendency to emerge, to operate in the world and on the world, cor-rupting (from the Latin rationem putare, establishing a relationship) whatever it encounters. In this meaning, conscience-consciousness discriminates by developing and integrating the selective function exercised by the psycho-perceptual activity (which in turn develops and integrates the selective function exercised by the neuro-sensory activity, which in turn develops and integrates the selective action prefigured in the confinement processes that shape manifestation), and operates following a process of transformation of the separation properties in reunion properties and vice versa, which corresponds to exercising the power of direct separation of concrete quantities (calculating). In terms of numeration, in the strict sense of the word, this corrupting-calculating is based on counting the objects of a whole, which means assigning each of its constituents a metaphor-sign (acoustic, mathematical, verbal, mental, gestural, graphic, etc.) corresponding to a number that is part of the natural series of integers, starting from unity and proceeding in order until completing the elements of this set that thereby assumes, arbitrarily, the characteristics of a sequence². Hence, counting is equivalent to introducing an order of sequential separation in an otherwise undivided set, while calculating-corrupting is equivalent to subjecting a sequence to a re-combination. The second meaning is linked to the prefix cum of cum-scire and syn of synoido (but also of syn-esis) and affirms the relationship of dependence that subordinates consciousness (con-science) to the archetypal presupposition of all the anthropopoietic relational categories: on high is Sky, below is Earth, in the middle Homo. In the human body this archetypal presupposition means that the discriminating possibility of conscience-consciousness depends on the availability and quality of the synergic relationship (from the Greek synerghìa, from synérghein, conjoined action, composed of syn, together, and érghein, acting) that elapses between the territory of bio-energetic dynamics (biological selectivity), the territory of neuro-sensorial activity (animal sensing) and the territory of psychic-mental-cognitive activity (human sensing-intuition ? thinking-feeling).

Throughout Western’s civilization history the interest concerning consciousness, i.e. conscience², has occupied a privileged position compared to that reserved to mind, which has become a priority object of interest and research only starting from the second half of last century, when the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence and its applications has pushed many researchers and many scholars of different scientific fields, to deal with the mental phenomenon (with the precise aim to turn it into a phenomenon likely to be simulated, reproduced and controlled) [6].

Historically the Western concept of (conscience) consciousness is shaped, as discussed in [7], by the cultural-religious background that precedes and accompanies the 800 years (from 509 BC, founding date of the Roman Republic, to the Nicaea Council, 325 AD) of domination and expansionism, first of the Roman Republic and then of the Roman Empire, in the Euro-Mediterranean area and in the Near and Far East.

Consciousness (conscience) it represents the compromise reached by the theological/theoretical synthesis which since the dawn of the first millennium AD attempted to re-harmonize, for the sake of Imperial stability, three contemporary visions of the World, linked to as many cosmogonic and social interpretations and as many versions of the word anima (ànemos/pneuma-ruah-animus, all terms translatable by wind, gust of air, breath and all pointing at the breath of Brahman from Vedic cosmogony): the Hellenistic Platonic-Aristotelian version, the Old Testament Hebrew version and the New Testament Judaic-Christian version.

As consciousness has made its way into our peculiar mindedness, we have projected it onto the World, creating a world populated by various entities endowed with some degree of human consciousness, some in the image and likeness of our conscious, some in the image and likeness of our unconscious. Accordingly, when we map the territory we make use of our mental categories. This refers to the way we behave within the World, shaping the external world on the basis of our internal world (no matter how sophisticated our investigation tools can be), mixing what is the map with what is the territory. This, in fact, is what we have been doing at least since Middle Paleolithic times. When the features we choose from time to time as indicative and distinctive of our humanness, become the reference measure for our mapping, we apply, for good and for bad, an anthropocentric point of view.

Interestingly, this anthropopoietic activity has never and will never run out, but only changes its shape. At present times, in our technocentric Era, the attention that was once reserved to the forces of Nature is reserved to the forces of Techno-Science, giving way to cybernetic machines equipped with intelligence and consciousness.

2. At the Roots of the Anthropopoietic Process

The paleo-archaeological record through which we groped to reconstruct, at least in general and with reasonable uncertainty, the essential features of the behavioral life of our distant ancestors lived during the Lower Paleolithic period (ca. 2.7 - 2.4 mya to ca. 300 - 120 tya), are (controversially) of few genres (variously classified) and are becoming increasingly scarce and fragmented as passing from the most recent finds, dating from the second half of the Lower Paleolithic (ca. 900 - 700 to ca. 300 - 120 tya), to the oldest anthropogenic finds dating from the first half of the Lower Paleolithic (ca. 2.7 - 2.4 mya to ca. 900 - 700 tya) [8], and even earlier [9].

The information we can glean from these anthropogenic finds vary according to their chronology and depend on the type and provenance of records that we have available, namely utilitarian and non-utilitarian anthropogenic finds.

Utilitarian finds are mainly artifacts, i.e. tools, dating back to the first half of the Lower Paleolithic like simple pebble tools, quartzite pebble tools and flakes (India), chopping-tools (Eastern Hemisphere), handaxes³ and cleavers (Middle Est, Africa, western Europe), bifacial-tools and flint tools (western Europe, Jordan), all of them sharing a minimalist and essential shape, made according to a synthetic spatial perspective of a mirror-symmetrical type (double-sided) [11] [12] [13] [14] [15], a symmetry (mirror symmetry) which reflects a two-dimensional spatial perspective (bipolar) and a based guidance on the horizon.

Non-utilitarian artifacts, i.e. palaeo-art finds, from this period are [16] beads and pendants from the Acheulean of France (at Saint-Acheul); iron hematite (ochre) fragments (occurring together with Acheulean bifaces and exotic quartz crystals), the processing of which may have provided a pigment used for coloring objects, bodies or surfaces, from Wonderwork Cave, in the northern Cape region of South Africa; numerous manuports, i.e. natural objects that were collected and carried by hominids because of some outstanding properties, such as quartz crystals from the Lower Acheulean of Singi Talav (India), Choukoutien (China) and Gudenus Cave in Austria; the red jasperite cobblewith distinctive natural markings (that makes the cobble looking like an anthropomorphic shaped face with eyes and mouth) from Makapansgat Cave in South Africa, which was collected by a hominid about 2.5 - 3 mya; the Erfoud manuport, in the form of a fossilized fragment of a cuttlefish with natural phallic resemblance, from an archaeological site near the towns of Erfoud and Rissani in eastern Morocco, which was collected by a hominid about 300 tya [17]; an engraved bone fragment from the Acheulean of Sainte Anne I, France, which bears ten short cuts along an edge.

Utilitarian finds from the second half of the Lower Paleolithic are artifacts that provide some likely clues on Paleolithic humans migration flows (a series of quartz stone axes, found in Crete and dated between 800 to 130 tya suggest that already from the second half of Lower Paleolithic perhaps Homo erectus and certainly Homo heidelbergensis built rudimentary boats for sailing in the open sea [18] ); stone tools (choppers, bifaces, scrapers, blades, handaxes and spikes) [19] belonging to the so called core-tool tradition, developed and diversified in terms of their intended use [20], but also because of the location of their makers perspective, a fact of great importance in the process of psycho-relational individuation-nucleation that has transformed the inner life and the relational approach of human communities, because it indicates that the human position, in the binocular perception of reality, is taken as the psycho-spatial coordinate that gives a sense of depth to the reality itself: the human actor’s position, as psycho-spatial coordinate for the depth, is the dependent variable which orients the two-dimensional extension of the line and the one-dimensional point (dot) generating the tridimensionality⁴.

Non-utilitarian finds from this period are stone carvings, such as cupules [22] [23] (a shallow, non-functional cup-like depression, cut into the surface of a rock as an engraved dot) and petroglyphs found in Bhimbetka and Daraki-Chattan Caves, India (dated between 700 to 290 - 200 tya), lines and dots as engravings which add the size of the depth to the two-dimensional perspective, creating the suggestion of three-dimensionality; artifacts with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic forms realized according to a two-dimensional spatial perspective; specimens of anthropomorphic statuettes or figurines classified as Venus (Venus of Tan Tan, Morocco, dated between 500 to 300 tya; Venus of Berekhat Ram, Israel, dated between 500 to 230 tya) [24]; iconic figures in the graphic art of eastern Europe and Asia such as some of the paintings in Kapova Cave and Ignatiev Cave and two mammoth engravings, one each from Mal’ta and Bereliokh, Siberia, and perhaps one figure from Hayonim Cave; geometric or non-iconic marks such as the numerous geometric signs on portable objects from Russia, Ukraine, Siberia and India, best exemplified at Eliseevichi, Mezin, Kirillovskaya and Mezherich (but also occurring, less pronounced or in smaller numbers, at Patne, Mal’ta, Afontova, Kavkaz, Balinkosh, Klinets, Timonovka, Suponevo, Novgorod-Severskaya, Avdeevo and Gagarino), in the first Palaeolithic art discovered in China, in several engraved objects from the Levant (especially the Urkan e-Rub II plaque and an Upper Besor 6 ostrich eggshell fragment) and in Blombos Cave, southern Africa.

The finds from the Middle Paleolithic (Europe) or Middle Stone Age (Africa) [25] or “later Early Paleolithic” (LEP) in the Chinese chronological scheme [26], ca. 300 - 120 to ca. 45 - 30 tya, include pictographs, petroglyphs, survival flukes (rock paintings in deep caves), proto-sculptures or figurines, iron hematite (ochre) fragments such as those found in an archeological site near Twin Rivers, in Zambia, South Central Africa, dated ca. 270 tya, abundant and varied types of tools and other hand processed stone artifacts belonging to the so called flake-tool tradition [27], some of them showing a clear propitiatory-magical significance, as well as some evidences on the evolution of fire control. Their processing and typological variety are in favour of a substantial refinement of the skills used in the manufacture of materials such as stone, bone and wood showing that in humans’ psyche was taking place a mature process of elaboration and structuring of the objectives pursued with their production, an evidence of the settling of the three-dimensional perspective orientation assumed by humans in their relation with the surrounding.

From now on it develops an anthropocentric orientation which entails a progressive detachment from the relationship of continuity or phylogenetic (quasi) unconditioned identification with the natural habitat, determining a drift towards a problematic epigenetics relationship of contiguity, or epigenetic-conditioned identification with the surrounding, which, in overcoming the relationship of continuity, re-creates the world in the form of internal representation (first magic, then symbolic and later on also semantic) of external reality.

In this regenerative and representative psychophysical process, the undivided unity composed by the individual and its natural habitat is cleaved into a territory and its mapping. In the tension, fraught with uncertainties, created by this splitting, the (quasi) absence of intentional supra-adaptive purposes⁵ in early humans is facing and integrates with the rising humans’ state of consciousness, and from its anthropo-centric orientation flows the fully supra-adaptive behavioral which we call, to all intents and purposes, cultural production, where by culture is meant:

・ The ongoing overcoming of stereotyped behavioral patterns via intentional, circumstantiated, not occasional, epigenetic ideation, programming, organization and implementation (for adaptive and supra-adaptive purposes) of cognitive behavioral strategies. In the animal kingdom, all behavioral dynamics that do not satisfy, in whole or in part, the above criteria should be considered as interactive dynamics belonging to the relational module of a given neurological-minded organism, governed by the phylogenetic diktat and bound to stereotypy.

The sensing-intuition dichotomy represents the way in which an individual receives information. According to Jung sensing and intuition are called irrational functions. Sensing refers to the means by which an individual knows something exists, derived by his/her neuropsychological-sensory system. Sensing, i.e. attentiveness by means of the sense organs, is the (species-specific) psychic function common to all vertebrate, upon which it develops their relationship with the environment and each other. Intuition is knowing about something without conscious understanding of where that knowledge comes from. The irrational function, according to Jung, is typical for mental and perceptual activity that predominantly (and, for the most part, unconsciously) operates with opportunities, i.e. various possible outcomes and sensations result from some premises and sensations, mostly driven by unconscious processes. In humans, all the forms of behaviour, including cognitive behaviour, and communication, including oral language, are rooted on the psycho-physical plane of (tension)sensing-intuition (belonging to the psychic territory as it was before being populated by conscious and unconscious contents) [10] [29].

From Lower Paleolithic to the first half of Middle Paleolithic, the action produced by the encounter between human mind-brain-body and the environment was limited to ensure the performance of adaptive phylogenetically prescribed functions, with few but significant deviations from the phylogenetic prescription, which already from the first half of Lower Paleolithic attest to how the human species were phylogenetically endowed with the possibility to overcome the behavioral stereotypy, to which are irreducibly bound all other animals. Throughout this period, from 1.5 to 2 million years, the psychic basin of attraction around which it has revolved the human psychodynamics, was essentially composed by what C.G. Jung [28] calls sensing-intuition bipolar psychic dimension, an irrational psychic dimension composed by the psychic function sensing⁶, that due to the action carried out by the six sense organs⁷ allows the individual to maintain an adequate state of attention to, and behave depending on, the environmental stimuli (energy and tensive state variations), and the psychic function intuition, which it provides the individual a pool of raw psychic contents, prescriptive but not descriptive (archetypes⁸) that lend themselves to nourish, and to be fertilized by, the relationship with the environment. With the psychological birth of human individuality⁹ (Middle Paleolithic) and the subsequent acquisition of a distinct identity from the environment (relationship of contiguity), indispensable prerequisite for the establishment of what we call self-consciousness, the psychic environment changes radically its structure and the bipolar psychic dimension sensing ↔ intuition is integrated with another fundamental bipolar psychic dimension, in this case rational, composed by the psychic ? mental function thinking (see below for explanation on the distinction between psychic/mental/cognitive function), that through recourse to logical processes tend to derive mind-facts from the raw object (archetype¹⁰), and the psychic ? mental function feeling, which tends to assign a value to things depending on the characterial predispositions and expectations of individuals who experience it¹¹.

From this time onwards the human being begins to entertain a dialogical relationship with the environment, mediated by the state of tension that develops between the phylogenetic content (? independent variable), which gives-form (in-form) to the bipolar psychic dimension sensing ↔ intuition and the epigenetic content (? dependent variable), which in-form the bipolar psychic dimension thinking ↔ feeling, and to identify itself as an agent of mediation between Earth and Sky, between the consistency of a reality perceived through the six sense organs, and supported by the psychic function sensing (? Earth), and the consistency of a reality intuited through archetypal psychic contents, and supported by the psychic function intuition (? Sky)¹².

The introduction of oral language, i.e. the ongoing overcoming of phylogenetically prescribed and sensing-intuitively tuned emission of sound signals via intentional, circumstantiated, not occasional, thinking-feelingly communication based on the human acoustic-musical faculty¹³ and realized thanks to the ideation, programming, organization and production of conventional, musically encoded (rhythm and timbre) [35], semantically codified and emotionally vivified¹⁴ [37] phonetic sounds, in human communication would have an enormous impact on the life of human communities and on the embryonic state of their cultural production. From a humanness that did not communicate through codified oral language, switching to a humanness that slowly discovers that it can communicate through the Logos that gives voice to the anthropopoietic process. From this point on, the speech that in-form will shape the world. One of the most important consequences would be the competitive relationship that came to be created, still existing, between the oropharyngeal-laryngeal cavity, as anatomical instrument for the gestation-generation of articulatesounds, and the uterine cavity, as anatomical site for the gestation-generation of life. In fact, the most revolutionary invention of all time, namely oral language, from the apotropaic use of the magic speech (which allows to put the vibrational matrix of different physical planes of reality in relation to each other) gradually up to the social use, first oral and then written, of speech-logos (which by putting different individuals and communities in relation to each other catalyzes cultural production), lays the foundations for the overpowering of the male gender over the female gender:

・ The function of naming things, as an act of reality legitimacy, and the function of giving a name to things and people (semantic baptism), as an act of initiation that assigns a new value of reality, puts the generating power of the oropharyngeal-laryngeal cavity (which gives voice to the breath/pneuma/ruah/prana that becomes speech and which ends up being governed by the male gender) in open competition with the generating power of the female uterus (which gives life to the breath/pneuma/ruah/prana that becomes offspring).

Through the Breath-Sound-Word, through its magical and mysterious power, through the interpenetration of the phylogenetic relational module that develops on the acoustic plane and the epigenetic discerning function (to obtain mental-facts from raw material) introduced by the process of individuation-nucleation of consciousness, through its attitude to give form (Logos-Conscious) to the formless (Kaos-Unconscious), the World ceases to be only lived, to also be interpreted. With the shocking re-birth in the Womb of the Breath-Sound-Word, humanness sees itself induced to mirror itself in its own non-being the World¹⁵, but only an extremely vulnerable part of it, forced to make sense of the painful and never completely resolved detachment from the relationship of continuity with the environment, which with a universal projective action (transfert) is assimilated to the Womb of the Great Mother Earth. And here, in the lacerating attempt to mend the wound caused by moving away from the Mother Breath, the human being finds refuge in the archetypal triad (Axis Mundi) that is the basis for all internal representations of external reality, both pre-rational and pre-verbal and rational and verbal:

・ henceforth and forevermore its place in the world will be between Earth (material) and Sky (immaterial), elective agent of connection (medium) between its own image reflected by the mirror of the soul of Earth and its own image reflected by the mirror of the soul of Sky, each with its quote of consciousness.

Hence, a psychodynamic distinction between psychic function, mental function, cognitive function can be made:

・ The psychic function is the relational capacity, distinctive, involved in the phylogenetically prescribed arrangement of the human psychic environment (insight), i.e. its species-specific tensive basin (the particular tensive warp on which it can be weaved the energy weft of the genus Homo) in whom are dissolved all the phase transitions (bifurcations) who went to meet the psychism of the biological phenomenon in the course of phylogeny, passing through the neurological transition up to the bifurcation that led to the emergence of the genus Homo.

・ The mental function is the explicated, modal and procedural, form of the psychic function. It refers to the process of in-formation who went to meet the human psychic ? mental environment in the relationship with the environment. De facto, the psychic function and the mental function have always been compresent (what varies is the prevalence of one over the other), and they point to the Jungian concept of archetype (psychic raw material) and to that of collective unconscious. From the psycho-dynamic point of view, these two functions qualify the constitutive arrangement, and the dynamics, of the psychic ? mental environment, which precedes the psychological birth of the genus Homo (from second half of Lower to Middle Paleolithic).

・ The cognitive function, is the relational capacity, gained from the particular differentiation, and subsequent arrangement, of the psychic ? mental environment, after the psychological birth and, in particular, by the development of oral language, and by the maturation of cognitive thinking (? bipolar psychic dimension thinking-feeling ? logical-abstract thinking), understood as the ability to overcome the phylogenetic prescription in planning significant actions for meaningful purposes.

Animated by the sedimentation of the psychic ? mental dynamics, the exercise of intelligence¹⁶, i.e. the ongoing subjective attitude and ability to select “between and inside”, weaving and tuning to each other and within them different things, for adaptive or supra-adaptive, utilitarian or non-utilitarian needs, comes out from the incubation stage where has operated for about two million years, entering a phase in which the epigenetic learning process (? dependent variable) integrates and shapes the phylogenetic prescriptive action (? independent variable), bringing to maturity the formation of mental functions and adaptive and supra-adaptive skills that can also make use of relational modules other than the one (phylogenetically prescribed) that has characterized the social life of human communities from Lower Paleolithic to Middle Paleolithic, that is different from the imitative module, which is based on the imaginific function¹⁷ (? bipolar psychic dimension sensing ↔ intuition) and mediated by the human acoustic-musical faculty. Disengaging itself from the adaptive strategies inherited via phylogeny (strategies that establish the constraints that must be followed to adapt to natural habitats) humans communities undertook a slow and difficult elaboration of epigenetic adaptive strategies, increasingly directed to adapt the natural environments (domestication processes) and the individuals themselves (social processes) to the needs and purposes elaborated and assumed by the communities. The slow process that went from encoding (musically) to codification (syntactically) of oral language, became a consequence of the transfer of a portion of the psycho-physical energy or libido (C. G. Jung), gained also through the optimization of socio-cultural and technological strategies employed to satisfy the requirements associated to survival and reproduction, from the plane of oro-pharynx, as anatomical organ for feeding and breathing, to the plane of oro-larynx, as anatomical instrument for intentional emission of sounds (vocalization and phonation).

3. Tension Domain vs Energy Domain

3.1. Tension Domain

As discussed in [38] our phenomenological reality is marked by the coexistence of manifested states (explicated), and unmanifested states (implicated) (David Bohm), and by the alternation of rarefied states and condensed states, whose dynamics respond to the prescriptive but not descriptive action of a poietic principle (which produces development and structure) called self-organization. The action exerted by self-organization is contextualized in the constitution of physical objects called strange attractors, sized as fractals and configured as holograms. A strange attractor is a pole of syntropic¹⁸ stabilization, locally unstable but globally stable, which introduces a variable and convergent quota of in-formation¹⁹ (negentropic process²⁰) [39] in the dynamics of a system, favouring the establishment of correlative patterns (coherence). In performing its polarizing action on the dynamics of the confinement processes, the strange attractor stabilizes a warp of polarized hysteresis²¹ domains embedded by a weft of self-recombining mnesic-like processes of a chaotic type. The quantitative measure of its ability to stabilize a warp of polarized hysteresis domains embedded by correlative patterns between self-recombining mnesic-like processes of the chaotic type, is referred to as mnemotropy²², while the qualitative measure of its ability is referred to as mnemotropic action.

Such hyperchaotic system has a complex dynamic behaviour linked to a polarized hysteresis cycle [Figure 1], called Twisted-Pinched Hysteresis Loop (T-PHL), which represents the most elementary and less integrated form of self-recombining behaviour (feed-forward) induced by the strange attractor’s mnemotropic action within the confinement processes.

The combined action obtained via

・ poietic action (which produces development and structure) namely self- organization,

・ syntropic action (which induces coherence, i.e. correlative patterns, in the dynamic of a system), contextualized by the formation of strange attractors, i.e. poles of syntropic stabilization, and

・ mnemotropic action (linked to a stabilized warp of polarized hysteresis domains embedded by a weft of self-recombining mnesic-like processes of a chaotic type),

is at the base of the overall state of every confinement process or system of confinement processes. That is, each form of manifestation, at any level, is in a state which is a function of the degree and level of integration and synergy elapsing between these three actions, which is referred to as mnemopoiesis.

Each element of reality, at any level of observation, can be treated as a micro system of relations, set in a macro system of relations (systemic approach). Nothing of what we observe exists in and by itself (anti-atomistic and anti-vitalistic approach). Everything we can think of, observable and unobservable (i.e. virtual²³), instead of being made up of building blocks, or discrete units (quantized), consists of one or more than one of the following relationship systems (enactivist approach):

1) tensive-relationship systems, which depend on, and belong to, an underlying non-uniform tension²⁴-gradients distribution (tension domain);

2) spin-internal motion relationship systems, wrapped by/intertwined with a tension|energy <Ť|Ê> exotic objects frame, which depend on, and belong to, an underlying non-uniform spin-internal motion gradients distribution (relativistic domain);

3) energy²⁵-impulse relationship systems, which depend on, and belong to, an underlying non-uniform field without quiet mass but endowed with energy and impulse (zero point quantum field, non-exited regime of the quantum domain);

4) anti-symmetrical/chiral composite quantum states (fermions) and symmetrical/achiral composite quantum states (bosons) relationship systems, which depend on, and belong to, an underlying non-uniform fermions-bosons gradient distribution (exited regime of the quantum domain, supra-quantum domain)

Accordingly, the Universe we are experiencing shows two coexisting and integrated phenomenological domains:

・ a tensive domain, i.e. a para-physic domain, also coined as psychism²⁶, grafted on tensive-relationship systems, which substrate our psychic dimension (experienceable only in the first-person perspective, centered upon one’s own mind-brain-body system),

・ an energy-impulse domain, grafted on relativistic, quantum and supraquantum relationship systems, which substrate our physic domain (experienceable also in the third-person perspective, which enables us to take the viewpoint of someone else).

Usually by tension is meant the effect or the state produced by a potential difference or by the application of a force, but within the present cosmogonic scenario, tension refers to Implicated Tension (IT), the cosmogonic premise of all potential differences and of all forces, the background of all confinement processes both physical and para-physical. All that there is in the fundamental, irreducible, protodynamic physical state (implicated endo-dynamo-tensive state), is tension in potency and not in action (Implicated Tension), bearing within a motion pulse also in potency and not in action, namely dynamis (linked to the Chinese wu-wei, action-without-action, to Vedic Dharma and to Aristotle’s Prime (Immobile) Movers, or Unmoved Mover), the potency correlated to the action (energheia), efficient cause connected to the motion and its quantitative and qualitative effects, the inherentpotency or intrinsic possibility of a body to be translated into an action that may be realized or not, a value of reality (dimensionless) only possible with respect to the real action realized (entelecheia) [43].

The establishment of these two coexisting and integrated phenomenological domains:

・ it arises as final consequence of a cosmogonic tensive transition sequence (due to symmetry breaking), ontologically assumed as the cosmogonic process that goes from the supra-liminal self-perturbation of a fundamental, irreducible, non-exited but intrinsically dynamic state of tension, to the Big-Bang (or the Big-Crash).

The cosmological transitions that precede and induce the Big-Bang (or the Big-Crash), i.e. prior to the establishment of our energy-tensive dimension, can be summarized as follow:

1) The non-exited regime of the ground state of tension, which is characterized by a reflectance index of one (total)²⁷, i.e. a tensive super-symmetrical [44] statedevoid of structure (continuous, isotropic, homogeneous, unperturbed), and therefore devoid of matter-energy-space-time, is going to be perturbed by a supra-liminalself-reverberation of dynamis associated to IT.

2) The supraliminal auto-reverberation of dynamis introduce a discontinuous and anisotropic factor, a twisting moment, namely torque²⁸, determining the appearance of a frame of tensions tangential to the IT tensive symmetry plane²⁹, which is tantamount to the breakdown (desymmetrize) in the IT tensive super-symmetry (tensive super-symmetry breaking [45] ).

3) The frame of tensions tangential to the IT tensive symmetry plane, together with torque, acts as twist = -ing-force. Since no other perturbations are allowed except for its self-perturbation, the ground state of tension devoid of structure it exploits both its own reflectance and the propulsive action exerted by the arising twisting-force to neutralize it.

4) The latter is reflected/projected onto a hyper-state wrapped, that is, confined, into a hidden wall domain, a continuous global property introduced by what could be assumed as the first cosmogonic tensive transition. All successive bifurcations are derived from this one via homomorphism (basic dynamic-structure equivalence).

5) The result is the establishment of two imbricated and coexisting tensive regimes, a non-exited regime devoid of structure (void; reflectance index equal to one) and an exited regime endowed by structure (non-uniform tension-gradients distribution, space-time-mass-energy free; reflectance index less than one), each delimited by its own (virtual) Reflection Symmetry Line or Mirror Symmetry Horizon³⁰ [46].

6) The non-uniform tension-gradients distribution’s topology, having its Mirror Symmetry Horizon as frame of reference, it may be thought of as a biaxial or tetra-toroid [Figure 2], also coined as external toroid, consisting of twisted loops that refer to a frame of explicatedtangent tensions (differentiated tensive fractions), warped around an internal poloid, which refer to a foam of implicated tangent tensions (undifferentiated tensive fractions), surrounding a involuted “donut hole”, a wormhole devoid of structure and dynamic (void), that refer to the non-exited regime of the ground state of tension. The twisted loop shown in Figure 2 (bottom right) describes a Twisted-Pinched Loop where the directionality of the event-horizon (Mirror Symmetry Horizon) in the upper ring assumes positive values and an anterograde polarization until the twisting-reversing switch at the point of intersection (pinching point) with its anti-horizon, to assume negative values and a retrograde polarization in the lower ring (as discussed in [47] for a “Weyl lifted” low energy string theory’s geodesic completeness across gravity/antigravity boundaries). The structured tensive domain it may show a holographic configuration (each fraction contains the complete in-formation recorded―via mnemotropic action―in the whole, but from different angles/perspectives), and a fractalized-superfluidstructure carrying a monopolar-achiral³¹ tensive potential.

7) When, due to interference phenomena between tensive gradients, the intensity of the perturbative action exerted by the explicated component (differentiated tensive fractions,) of the tangent tensions’ frame (toroid), exceeds a critical threshold, the non-excited regime of the non-uniform tensive-gradients distribution is warped (tensive superposition) by an excited regime.

8) The twisting moment of the structured tensive domain’s exited regime becomes the seat of a stereogenic center able to desymmetrize its achiral component, that is, able to desymmetrize its monopolar-achiral tensive potential, which is thus exposed to the possibility of being transformed into a dipolar-proprochiral tensive potential.

9) The exited regime of the structured tensive domain opposes to this possibility. Due to self-organization phenomena, the destabilizing action exerted together by the twisting moment and by the differentiated tensive fractions (toroid) it exceeds a critical threshold, triggering a new cosmological tensive transition [Figure 3], namely the Big Bang (or the Big Crash), which determines the constitution of the non-exited relativistic domain regime (at energies much smaller than the Planck scale), where tension becomes manifest in the form of the Weyl invariant low energy string theory’s dynamical string tension [47], and where space and time are prefigured by what Einstein’s GR define as spacetime continuum.

10) The Big Bang (or the Big Crash) is the (cosmological) self-recombining condensative event to which the dipolar-proprochiral tensive potential undergoes, turning into a dipolar-prochiral tensive potential, whose rotational ↔ torsional stabilization (dipole rotational symmetry) generates what the spacetime continuum is made up of, namely spatiotemporal holographic fractions called spin-internal motion (zitterbewegung, self-dynamism not dependent upon

・ to the topological boundary that separates tension domain Ť from energy domain Ê, namelythe common event horizon with respect to which what is the lastinternal for one is the first external for the other (for a discussion on the subject see: Tozzi, A. (2020) Are Borders Inside Or Outside?, available at:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341787420_ARE_BORDERS_INSIDE_OR_OUTSIDE

・ to the internal hysteresis state of the spacetime warp where the two domains come together, collapse, overlap and reverse (see Figure 1).

external factors) [49] [50], which on the event horizon that separates tension domain from energy domain take the hybrid form of tension|energy <Ť|Ê> exotic objects³², namelystationary and fractional objects in a state at the boundary between tension and energy (tension|energy <Ť|Ê> event horizon) endowed by a dynamical string tension and a latent-kinetic potential, which become the seat of a latent prochiral stereogenic center, therefore, spacetime itself becomes the seat of a latent prochiral stereogenic center.

11) The relativistic domain’s topology reproduces that of the structured tensive domain, with the difference that the toroid is composed by an explicated tension|energy <Ť|Ê> exotic objects frame, while the poloid by an implicated spin-internal motion foam, surrounding a involuted “donut hole” devoid of structure and dynamic (void), related to the non-exited regime of the ground state of tension. It shows a holographic configuration and a fractal-superfluid structure (cfr. with [51] hydrodynamic superfluid background field) carrying a (latent) dipolar-prochiral tensive potential.

12) When, due to interference phenomena between spin-internal motion gradients, the intensity of the perturbative action exerted by the explicatedtension|energy <Ť|Ê> exotic objectsframe (toroid) on the dipole rotational symmetry, exceeds a critical threshold (breakdown in the gauge symmetry of the rotational group), the dipolar-prochiral tensive potential ceases to be present only in latent form, a Coriolis potential and a Coriolis force³³ is generated to oppose the rotational ↔ torsional breakdown, making spacetime continuum shift to its exited regime, which is tantamount to be warped by a zero point quantum field carrying a dipolar-chiral kinetic potential.

13) Zero point quantum field is a non-exited, non-uniform gradient distribution of oscillatory motions and charge densities of energy-quanta and impulse regime, a field without quiet mass but endowed with energy and impulse, an extended system of spatial and subliminal electromagneticoscillations (called zero point oscillations because unable to excite the field) whose activity is described by using acoefficient of proportionality known as quantum of fundamental action (the Planck constant h, the smallest entity of divisibility of energy per time unity), that relates the frequency (v)of oscillation of the field with its capacity to generate interference, i.e. with its energy (e), establishing that the value of energy (e) of a quantum oscillator is given by the product of its frequency (v) through the constant h = 6.63 × 10⁻³⁴ Joule/sec, that fixes the energy index at which the transition from the explicatedspin-internal motion domain to the zero point quantum field it occurs:

e = h v

The energy (capacity to generate interference within the physic dimension) of a quantum oscillator is the quantum interface that places the oscillator in a biunivocal relationship with the relativistic domain and with the quantum and supra-quantum domain.

3.2. Energy Domain

The phenomena of interference between the oscillatory modalities of the energy flows and impulse involved in the perturbation/excitation of the zero point quantum field comes to be affected by coupling-phase (oscillatory resonance), which, according to QED (Quantum Electrodynamic Field theory), is able to trigger the phase transitions that lead to the exited energy-quanta and impulse gradient distribution of oscillatory motions and charge densities (referred to as EEQ-GD, that is Exited Energy Quanta-Gradients Distribution) and to the structuring of matter (Coherence Domains vs Incoherence Domains). In particular, each localized (in space and/or in time) form of confinement (tensive, radiative, massive, subatomic, atomic, supra-atomic, biological, cosmological), i.e. delimited by a boundary (even if virtual, an event-horizon it may be considered as a boundary), is a tensive-vibrational micro-environment and corresponds to an oscillator or a resonant cavity (cavity resonator), a stationary system organized around a particular tensive/vibrational configuration of perturbations (tension/phase/oscillation), existing thanks to the relationships of interference it has with the endogenous and exogenous tensive-vibrational environment³⁴.

The final result is the diversification of the structuring of the phenomena affecting the exited energy-quanta and impulse gradient distribution of oscillatory motions and charge densities (EEQ-GD) in four orders of phenomena, relatively autonomous and independent, associated with just as many physical varieties, the first belonging to the territory of the exited regime of the structured tensive domain (referred to as ET-GD, Exited Tension-Gradient Distribution), which manifest itself in the form of the Weyl invariant low energy string theory’s dynamical string tension and on which spacetime continuum is grafted, the second to the territory of the quantum domain (QD) while the other two to the territory of the supra-quantum domain (referred to as H-MD, that is Hyper, i.e. cosmological, and Middle, i.e. ordinary, Dimension):

・ Tensive phenomena (tensive varieties: differentiated vs undifferentiated tension; spin-internal motion, tension|energy <Ť|Ê> exotic objects)

・ Energy phenomena (electrodynamic varieties: wave fields and matter fields; wave-particle duality; anti-symmetrical/chiral composite quantum states and symmetrical/achiral composite quantum states)

・ Condensed matter phenomena (thermodynamic varieties, gas/liquid/solid/ glassy, and chemical varieties, inorganic/organic)

・ Biological phenomena (autopoietic varieties³⁵, from colloid lyophilized bubbles onwards [10].

The overall state of every confinement process or system of confinement processes, at any level of observation, is referred to as state of mnemopoiesis, which is established by the ongoing combined action elapsing between the 1) poietic action, namely self-organization, 2) syntropic action, which translates into the formation of syntropic nuclei called attractors, and 3) mnemotropic action, linked to a stabilized warp of polarized hysteresis domains embedded by a weft of self-recombining mnesic-like processes of a chaotic type.

To better visualize the multidimensional scenario within which a state of mnemopoiesis is established, we can resort to Augusto Sabbadini’s metaphor of the pond and the fish³⁶.

Imagine a muddy pond where we are fishing. A fish swims in the pond, but we cannot see it because the water is cloudy. At a certain point the fish bites. We raise the barrel and see it attached to the hook. In such a situation we naturally suppose that, just a moment before biting, he came to be precisely at the point where the hook was. Until a moment ago we were not able to say where it was: its position was for us, in a certain sense, indeterminate. But it was not an intrinsic, irreducible indeterminacy. It was linked only to incomplete information on our part of a reality that was in itself determined. Now imagine that the fish is a quantum particle and the rod, line and hook are a device that measures its position. Again, until we perform the measurement, the position of the fish is indeterminate. But this is a different and more radical indeterminacy. Rather than a normal fish, the particle resembles a soluble fish, which, before biting, is found widespread throughout the pond, more densely in some places, less densely packed in others. The uncertainty of its position is not just a lack of information on our part. Where it is denser we are more likely to catch it, where it is poorly dense we have less chance. But its position is intrinsically indeterminate. Nonetheless, miraculously, when the soluble fish is caught, its widespread nature instantly condenses and precipitates into a real fish, perfectly localized, hanging on the hook.

Normal fish and soluble fish belong to the pond of energy. Normal fish belong to our middle dimension, the three-dimensionality pond, where time flows from a before to an after and where the concept of distance and of alternation still make sense, the one we experience through our ordinary senses, with respect to which the laws of classical physics apply. Soluble fish belong to the quantum dimension, the one we cannot experience through our ordinary senses, with respect to which the laws of quantum physics apply, the pond where the concept of distance and of alternation, of space and time, completely lose meaning, dissolving into something which contemporary physics calls zero point quantum field.

The condensative varieties of the EEQ-GD (soluble fish) and of the H-MD (normal fish) derives both from different correlations among tensive gradients (the pond of tension from which both soluble fish and normal fish appear and disappear) supported by tension|energy <Ť|Ê> event horizon gradients, and, on the other hand, from different correlations among anti-symmetrical/chiral composite quantum states (fermions; anti-symmetrical wave function; vector component of the electromagnetic wave) and symmetrical/achiral composite quantum states (bosons; symmetrical wave function; spin network; scalar component of the electromagnetic wave), corresponding to different coherent oscillatory configurations (domains of oscillatory coherence or Coherence Domains, CDs) that oscillate with a non-linear pattern to the rhythm impressed by a carrier frequency modulation. Transitions from one oscillatory configuration to another imply that some oscillatory modes (rhythms) and/or tensive correlations are dampened, while others are amplified.

All biological envelopes, from cell membrane to epithelial tissue, contain this aqueous phase in a semi-crystalline state (likened to the liquid ice) or are perfused by it.

Matter is a way of being of energy. Radiation is rarefied energy. Mass is condensed (compactified) energy. Matter is a combination of the two (an atom is about 99.999999999% radiation). Radiation and mass are a measure of the energy confinement state. Energy (radiative and massive) is a way of being of tension. Tension is what is left when energy is taken away, and just as water remains water in each of its states, the solid, liquid, gaseous and glassy, tension remains tension in each of its states, the structured state of tension, the relativistic, quantum and supra-quantum. Any energy-matter confinement process is organized around its tensive basin of attraction³⁷, which can be drawn as a cavity resonator for tensive gradients distributions, whose topological collocation can be traced back, for convenience, to the imagery space dimension of a four-dimensional space [53] [54] [55] ), or, as suggested by string theory, to a n-dimensional space.

Each thermodynamic state or phase of matter can be qualified according to its internal structure or order, that is according to its correlative structure (e.g. gas is a thermodynamic phase-state of water less correlated than liquid which in turn is less correlated than solid which in turn is less correlated than glassy), and the connection between one phase-state and the other may take place through phase transitions (phase transitions from one state to another changes the correlative state of a system but may not change its nature, as is the case of water, which is always water in the liquid, solid, gaseous and glassy state³⁸). Accordingly, any elementary constituent of a system it can act one way or another depending on the correlative system it comes to be part of. That is, are the correlative properties of the system that determine its behavior, and not the properties of its elementary constituent taken individually and summed up [63]. When the trajectory described by the becoming of a dynamical system is going to be deflected by a phase transition, for a certain period of time the system is to be in a state at the phase boundary, a bifurcation point beyond which the system changes, partially or totally, in a reversible or irreversible way, its massive and/or radiative and/or tensive identity.

According to Quantum Field Theory (QFT), every object or phenomenon of the quantum dimension is therefore assimilable to a vibrational system (describable via a mathematical tool known as wave function), that vibrates with a certain frequency configuration, a certain oscillatory or phase Ф modality (which should not be confused with the thermodynamic phase) and a certain intensity, maintaining an uninterrupted local and non-local relationship of interference with the vibrational systems it comes to be part of.

The phase Ф describes the rhythm of oscillation of the field and therefore the wavelike aspects of the system. Phase Ф is the parameter that qualifies the dynamics of a phenomenon in relation to its temporal course and in relation to its oscillatory properties, where at each phase Ф corresponds a different energy level, a different vibrational configuration and a different interferential register³⁹. Therefore, and contrary to the objects described by Classical Physics, a coherent quantum system is not defined in isolation, but gets defined by the array of its relationships. In biological systems, the phase Ф is connected with the EM potential in a mutual relationship so that we could be able to change the phase Ф of a biological organism by applying an EM potential⁴⁰ [64] [65].

We could interpret the biological effectiveness of very and ultraweak EM and magnetic fields just by assuming that the agent at work in the interaction is not the field but the potential and the mechanism of interaction is the phase-sharing⁴¹.

Accordingly, the four orders of phenomena relatively autonomous and independent affecting the EEQ-GD regime can interact thanks to three types of correlative dynamics or couplings:

・ Phase Conjugate Dynamics (of the type Frequency-Phase Correlative Dynamics);

・ Spin Coniugate Dynamics (of the type Phase-Tension Correlative Dynamics);

・ Tension Coniugate Dynamics (of the type Tension-Tension Correlative Dynamics)

Also referred to as, respectively:

・ a coupling of the frequency (fermions; particle and quasi-particle behavior) ↔ phase Ф (bosons; wavelike behavior) type, that is between the massive plane (eventually mediated by solitons and/or excitons), and the radiative plane (eventually mediated by polaritons⁴² and photons [67] [68] [69] [70] );

・ a coupling of the phase Ф (wavelike behavior) ↔ tension|energy <Ť|Ê> event horizon (spin-internal motion, tension|energy <Ť|Ê> exotic objects) type, that is between the wavelike component of the exited energy-quanta and impulse gradient distribution of oscillatory motions and charge densities and the exitedspin-internal motion gradient distribution;

・ a coupling of the tension|energy <Ť|Ê> event horizon (spin-internal motion, tension|energy <Ť|Ê> exotic objects endowed by a dynamical string tension and a latent-kinetic potential) ↔ tension (differentiated tension) type, that is between the exited spin-internal motion gradient distribution and the exited structured tensive domain gradient distribution.

With regard to human being, the interaction elapsing between Phase Conjugate Dynamics and Tension Conjugate Dynamics takes place (mainly but not only) via Spin Conjugate Dynamics, which means that the interaction between the radiative-massive plane “body” and the tensive plane “mind”, takes place thanks to the interface established by quantum dynamics (a fact that, on the thrust of the process of fascination induced by the quantum world oddities, led to formulate the rather reductive expression Quantum Brain), which does not correspond to, and should not be confused with, “mind” dynamics (the same process of fascination has led to formulate the even worse expression Quantum Mind).

That is, the mind-brain-body dynamics can be linked to the trajectory described by the non-linear, rhythmic and continuous transformation of biophysical and biochemical processes coupled to the human’s mnemopoietic state and governed by a multiplicity of integrated basins of attraction (e.g.: riddled basin of attraction; R. Thom’s infinitely intermingled basins [71] ) of the chaotic type and toroid-poloid topology, consisting of a double layered energy envelope, i.e. an outer layer composed of a fractal plot of Frequency-Phase Correlative Dynamicsinterference ridges and an inner one composed of a fractal plot of Phase-Tension Correlative Dynamics interference ridges, non-locally coupled (entangled) with the projection, on the biological species-specific event-horizon⁴³, of a fractal distribution of Tension-Tension Correlative Dynamics (tensive core) [Figure 4].

If we assume that the phenomena generated by the biunivocal transition elapsing between pattern of spin-internal motion and pattern of tension refer to a inertial system generated by the actual transition, the so generated inertial system may be treated as the event-horizon of the neuro-psycho-physiological information dynamic, where by event-horizon it is meant a de-localizedvirtual entity [72], the space-time boundary between different planes of manifestation (here mind vs body), which traces the limits of observability and comparability of the phenomena that lie before and beyond the event-horizon (tension vs energy).

If this is the case, the surfaces of higher order hyperspace fields lay on, and in-form the, human’s neuro-psycho-physiological event-horizon. Here is where the tension domain and the energy domain come together.

4. Biological Systems Dynamics Is Tuned at the Phase Boundary between Chaotic and Ordered Regimes

4.1. Biological Systems Dynamics

Living systems are transient systems undergoing cyclical processes [73] [74] activated by species-specific basin of attraction (riddled basin of attraction) [75] and tuned on state variations or stimuli (chemical and physical perturbative events linked to frequency variations, phase variations, tension variations) of the endogenous and exogenous environment. Their subsistence depends on their ability to adapt to (specific) applied perturbations. To adapt they must be, at first, selectively excitable. Selectivity is an essential condition for the existence of an autopoietic system.

In normal conditions, the cyclical processes activated by the species-specific basin of attraction are kept on a level of self-similarity, and scale invariance, a necessary condition for the functioning and morphology of processes and structures of a biological system, in order to remain functional in their assigned role, even though they transform (e.g., in the process of ageing structures and processes change, but always remain similar to themselves). For this purpose the riddled basin of attractionundergoes constant transformation (deterministic chaos⁴⁴ [76] [77] ) from strange attractor to limit cycle attractor⁴⁵ (almost periodic) to fixed point attractor (periodic) [78], and vice versa [79].

As long as the degree of uncertainty of the species-specific basin of attraction and its syntropic function (ability to modulate the rhythmic properties of a system) are preserved⁴⁶, its self-transformation is reversible (e.g. physiological processes, processes of self-repair and healing), but when the degree of uncertainty and/or effectiveness of the syntropic function are compromised by internal or external causes (alteration or loss of ability to maintain the rhythmic properties of the system), the process of self-transformation can cease at the level of the limit cycle attractor or at the fixed point attractor’s limit, with a relapse on the processes and/or structures that are under its action.

Beyond a certain limit (irreversible exceeding of stress limit), the loss of uncertainty and/or of the syntropic ability of the system determines a local or a widespread reduction in functional freedom (structural and/or functional permanent damage), or a loss of one or more functions, potentially leading to the decline of the biological system, eventually to death.

In the framework of a biology based on coherence, the health of an organism depends on its ability of constructing a well defined phase Ф during the mainly unpredictable variables of life. When this happens, we say that this organism is able to self adapt and, eventually, self repair. The capability of self repair of an organism is enhanced by the presence of a well defined phase Ф in tune with the part of the environment the organism is connected to. A better life quality is then supported by a sharper definition of the phase Ф of each organism. In this interaction the connectedness of the organism is essential, not the amount of exchanged energy, which could on the contrary be harmful when its amount exceeds the threshold of the “energy gap”, namely the amount of energy necessary to make the coherent system boiling and therefore losing coherence [80].

Contrary to the quasi-finalistic and quasi-linear consequentiality of the phyletic lineage suggested by the Darwinian and neo-Darwinian arboreal model of phylogeny, phylogenesis itself should be understood as a basin of attraction of the chaotic type (riddled basin of attraction) with different attractors and different dissipative/anticipatory structures/systems, that is:

・ the ongoing, non-linear (non-predictable, non-reversible, non-reproducible) process of diversification and integration relying on the poietic action (which produces development and structure) exerted by the self-organization, to which undergoes the biological phenomenon from its origin, in relation to all the intermediate solutions between adaptation and exaptation⁴⁷, to all the dissipative/anticipatory structures/systems solutions and to all the state transitions (bifurcations), induced by macroscopic (environmental, climatological, geological, planetary, cosmological) and/or microscopic (biophysical and biochemical) state variations, that have affected it, directly or indirectly, in space and time.

Under the thermodynamic-electrodynamic-autopoietic profile, the countless structural and functional solutions that characterize biological varieties, produced in the course of phylogenetic diversification in general, and of that following the Cambrian Period in particular, represent as many dissipative systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium, that rely on the availability of anticipatory systems. Biological systems are non-linear dissipative systems [81] embedded by super-complex anticipatory systems relying on thermodynamics of non-equilibrium, at the phase boundary between chaotic and ordered (coherent) regimes. The state maintained at the verge of chaos turns out to be, in some sense, rather stable. This peculiar state is defined as a self-organized criticality [82].

4.2. The Metazoans Neuro-Dependent Adaptive Line

Basic organic compounds, such as biological water, proteins and nucleic acids, are semiconductors and possess the ability to activate charges without participation of ions [83]. Semiconductors are good converters of chemical, thermal and electromagnetic energy into electric energy, and the other way round. A semiconductor can be a quantum generator of electrons and photons. In an alternating electric field, proteins, amino acids, DNA, RNA, as well as plant and animal tissues are subjected to electrostriction, i.e. the mechanical deformation of a dielectric (insulator) in the presence of an electric field, and become quantum generators of phonons or acoustic waves (a phonon being a quantized mode of vibration). This occurs because the structures in question are at the same time piezoelectric (the ability of certain materials to generate an electric charge in response to applied mechanical stress⁴⁸) and pyroelectric (the ability of certain materials to generate an electrical potential in response to applied thermal stress), which means they possess the capacity for thermal and mechanical polarization. Piezoelectrics convert mechanical energy into electric energy, while pyroelectrics convert thermal energy into electric energy [84].

Acoustic effects may take place not only in piezoelectrics, but also in semiconductors. A semiconductor can manage electrons in their induced state. In such cases, non-radiative recombination transmits the energy to the molecular network in the form of quantum quantized mode of vibration. The transition from the induced state to the basic state has got thus two possibilities: the generation of photon or the generation of phonon.

At micro- and mesoscopic level life is a result of all the chemical, electrical, magnetic, optical and acoustic events occurring in the living organism, in the system of organic-like semiconductors, piezo- and pyroelectrics. Therefor life takes place not in a chemical or electronic system, but to some extent among these two processes, where photon exchange plays a central role.

Life processes and light are inseparable and internally connected due to their electromagnetic nature. Light plays a significant energetic and regulatory role in living organisms and in the entire ecosystem, for instance in photosynthesis, in the process of seeing, in biological rhythms, etc. The establishment and maintenance of biological structures is based on the process of photosynthesis⁴⁹ [85] [86], thanks to which the surplus of energy supplied by the photon to the electron in the electronic excitation is converted into binding energy. The inverse process is called bioluminescence. In this case there is a transfer of energy from a bond to an excited electron, with the consequent emission of a photon.

Changes in the intensity of photon emission are functionally connected with disturbances of homeostasis and their measurements specify the state of organism’s vitality and the capacity for environmental adaptation. The electromagnetic interface and photon exchange are at the basis of all biological processes and it is thanks to it that a biological system, from the less to the most complex, interacts/interfere with each other and with the environment.

Because of this, the electromagnetic interface represent, at the micro-, meso- and macroscopic level, the fundamental sensory module of any biological system [87] [88] [89] [90] [91], namely EM sensory module [92] (a biological ability that several marine and few terrestrial animal species favored by developing electroreception, used in electrolocation, i.e. detecting objects, and for electric signaling).

Prokaryotic cells (unicellular autotrophic anaerobic photo, magneto and chemo-synthetic micro-organisms began to form ca. 3.8 - 3.6 billion years ago). The following constant, increasing, massive, over one billion years lasting O2 (oxygen in the gaseous state) production, carried on by oceanic anaerobic photoautotrophic prokaryotes (cyanobacteria), primitive photosynthetic blue/green micro-algae living in chains-colonies, have increased and decreased the ocean’s O2 concentration several times before turning the existing reducing atmosphere into an oxidizing atmosphere, with catastrophic effects on the prokaryotic cells themselves, that are poisoned by the gaseous oxygen, and dramatic effects on the whole environmental (geochemical evidence of a new world-order for the carbon cycle), climatological (ice ages began) and geological conditions (most of the minerals found on Earth will be since formed as hydrated and oxidized forms due to dynamic and crust processes).

This process came to a no way back point ca. 2.3 bya, when the oceanic and atmospheric O2 concentration rate reached irreversible levels incompatible with anaerobic cell’s metabolism, giving way to the first and greatest mass extinction ever happened (also called the Great Oxygenation Event, GOE) [93]. Eventually, the mass extinction escaping prokaryotes, together with primitive anaerobic eukaryotes lacking mitochondria and plastids, who appeared out of different prokaryotic cells symbiosis less then 1 billion years after prokaryotic cells formation, took shelter deep in the ocean floor, far from the ocean’s surface, or reduced themselves, via encystment, into a stripped-down, dormant form, or turned into endospores-like formations.

Some of the prokaryotes and most of the primitive eukaryotes who escaped extinction underwent a ca. 600 million years lasted non-linear biological transmutation, which turned cell’s metabolism from anaerobic to aerobic (oxidative metabolism, photosynthesis), and cell’s composition from lacking in organelles (the membrane-bound compartments within a cell such as the nucleus, mitochondria, chloroplast), to be equipped with them (e.g. mitochondria derived from purple bacteria, the plastids from cyanobacteria, and the nucleocytoplasmic component from archaebacteria), in particular with the nucleus (a-nucleated cells vs nucleated cells), where the heritable genetic material is located, to give way (ca. 1.9 - 1.7 bya) to a new, highly integrated and complex form of cell, the fully established eukaryotic cell.

Eukaryotic cells themselves underwent a ca. 700 million years lasted non-linear biological self-organization process that brought to the formation of the first multicellular organisms (the most ancient hybrids of multicellular organisms were metazoans, fungi and marine sponges, which formed ca. 1 bya).

Until the Cambrian Period, biological dynamics revolved around the development of biochemical and biophysical strategies, aimed at fulfilling energy requirements. From the Cambrian onwards a new solution amongst energy requirements started to sketch a second way for the development of life on Planet Earth: adaptation by diversification of behavioural strategies.

Diversification of behavioral strategies require cell differentiation, the process by which cells specialize, acquiring or enhancing their ability to perform a specific function⁵⁰. With cell differentiation the whole clusters of unicellular organismsthat have colonized the planet until then, distributed over one or more areas and linked by a common adaptive and bio-energetic gain, found the way to come together, a process of in-formation governed by the self-organization of specific associative patterns induced, in the short and long range, by resonance phenomena (via Phase Conjugate Dynamics; Spin Coniugate Dynamics; Tension Coniugate Dynamics), involving various kind of cellular and molecular species, to become localized cells colonies, specialized and joined by a common structural and functional link, defined and identified in the construction of different tissues, organs and systems of organs, that operate coherently and in synchrony for the survival and unity of the multicellular system. From being a composed, integrated system delimiting (membrane) a multitude of sub-cellular structures and molecular units, more and more unicellular organisms stopped “dancing alone” to become one with an integrated specialized cellular ecosystem (multi-cellular organism), consisting of differentiated cells, specialized according to the role and function they must play to be part of a choral unit⁵¹.

In multicellular organisms of the animal kingdom (from Metazoa to us), the distribution of the various functions among different and increasingly specialized tissues is integrated by a new tissue, the Nervous Tissue (NT), whose functional unit is the nervous cell (in association with glial cells⁵²), i.e.:

・ a generator of electromagnetic radiation in ultrahigh range of frequencies with the wave length comparable with linear dimensions of the cell itself;

・ a rhythmogenic center with exogenic modulated frequency;

・ a receptor unit playing selective function on state variations (stimuli) and functional interface between innervated tissues;

・ engaged in supporting and integrating the energy-transfer function exerted by the catalytic cellular core (CCC), formed by the Golgi apparatus, the centrosome and microtubules (MTOC, Microtubule Organizing Center [98], the structural units of the cell cytoskeleton, highly polarized polymerized proteins.

In accordance to energy and geo-environmental constraints that have guided phylogeny in the process of diversification of biological functions and corresponding structures/systems, the zoological neuro-dependent line adapts itself to the unconditioned variables imposed by the environmental pressure diversifying the biological scenario in a multitude of animal organisms, guided by the genetic stabilization of specific sensory maps (bearers of a specific ability to generate interference) and specific neuronal maps (bearers of specific anatomical and functional correlations), which assigns to species their own capacities, possibilities and tendencies, variously bound to stereotypy or open to overcome it.

5. The Mind-Brain-Body Hard Problem

5.1. The Mind-Brain-Body Hard Problem: Mind

As individuals we experience ourselves as biologically discrete, as contained within our skins. Thus, we experience ourselves as embodied and largely define ourselves and our boundaries by our bodied experience. But also importantly, despite the ecological reality of our inextricable embeddedness, we are boudaried, defined, and located by others―and, so, we are also embodied by others.

Vivien Hardham [99]

What is here proposed to define the position of mind in Nature, is a relationship-based alternative.

Physically, the mind phenomenon

1) rest on the neuro-electrochemical activity, that transmutes the environmental physic variations, filtered and made available by the six sensory organs, into a non-linear neuro-compatible stream of energy and tension gradients,

2) is drawn by the tuning (via correlative dynamics) of the ongoing non-locally distribution ofmonopolar tension gradients (a relationship process linked to the dynamics of the species-specific neurological basin of attraction acting at the edge of chaos on tension level), with the ongoing non-locally distribution ofenergy gradients (a relationship process linked to the dynamics of the same species-specific neurological basin of attraction acting at the edge of chaos on wave-particle level).

By mind-brain-body correlative dynamics is then understood an ongoing net of tension and energy gradients, filtered by the mind-brain-body poietic-syntropic-mnemotropic system, to become a spooky grid of flowing images, i.e. holographic tension|energy <Ť|Ê> exotic objects interference patterns on the surfaces of higher order hyperspace fields (e.g. on a hypersphere, a structure embedded in a 4D space, equipped with a double donut-like shape, which is invisible in the usual 3D dimensions [100] ), experienced as mental-facts by the subject endowed with consciousness.

A mental fact is an ongoing mass and energy free process devoid of space and time coordinates, non-objectifiable, evanescent, a transitory bending hologram of tensions endowed with functional correlations, shaped by behavioral needs (species-specific) in order to become a meaningful flux of images among the stream of otherwise meaningless tensions, constantly flowing in the relationship that develops between the neurological organism which is experiencing it and the environment of state variations in which it is immersed and with which it interacts. When we sense, perceive, feel, think, we literally turn the spooky grid of flowing images that we are experiencing into sensations, perceptions, feelings, thoughts. There is not something or someone separated from the mind-brain-body stream of correlations, which observes it from inside or outside. The idea of “mentally seeing” our thoughts, sensations, emotions and the like, as separate “objects” that appear and disappear from the screen of our mind, is an illusion determined by the action of consciousness, whose modus operandi is to divide, to establish relationships of contiguity.

Mind is not an intrinsic property of matter, nor a state of matter. Mind is a particular way of being of tension in relation to energy, realized when the autopoietic dynamic of a biological system is mediated by the neurological relational module. Mind is grafted on the stream of sensations (state variations) elapsing within the neuro-dependent dynamics while energy merges into tension on the edge of chaos, a stream of state variations experienced as events, i.e. knots of relations non isolated nor isolatable from the whole in which they are comprised, whose value and relevance is species-specific dependent. When we refer to human mind, we are not referring to something made up of something, or to the product of a body-mind mechanic, but to a phenomenon literally implicated in the human neuro-psycho-physiological relationship with its outer-outsight (embedded) and inner-insight (embodied) [101].

That is, we can speak of “mind” only in relation to neurological systems, which we can refer to as minded biological systems or simply minded systems. Each zoological species is a minded system showing its own and distinctive “mindedness” and therefore its peculiar behavioral features. Projecting the features and attributes we associate to human mindedness onto non-human animals, or non-neurological biological systems, or inanimate objects, or whatever, can help us to maintain a relationship of continuity with the world, to feel part of it, but is nothing more than anthropopoietic activity.

5.2. The Mind-Brain-Body Hard Problem: Consciousness

As a cell must be irritable to respond to a stimulus, so a neurological organism must maintain a suitable species-specific level of attentiveness (state of vigilance or arousal) in order to fulfill its adaptive/relational needs. The mind-configuration of the human-neurological-organism, i.e. its mindedness, marks the transition (bifurcation) between a neuro-dependent relationship in which the neurological-minded system has an appropriate species-specific level of attentiveness but do not and cannot perceive itself as a distinct entity from its environment (a relation of continuity which is bounded to a safely behavioral stereotypy), to a neuro-dependent relationship in which the neurological-minded system is intended to perceive itself as a distinct individuality from the environment (toward a relation of contiguity which tends to overcome the behavioural stereotypy), to become a subject conscious of his/her relationship.

We can also think at this transition, namely from the mindedness common to all animals to humans’ mindedness, as a transition of state or state transition. In thermodynamics, a state transition indicates the passage of matter from a state of aggregation to another, i.e. gaseous, liquid, solid, plasma.

In psychodynamics, a state transition indicates the passage of psychism from a configuration to another, i.e. tensive-relationship systems ? structured tensive domain ? tension|energy <Ť|Ê> objects ? neurological organism’s mindedness endowed by sensing ? human’s mindedness endowed by sensing-intuition and therefore by consciousness in potency ? human’s mindedness endowed by thinking-feeling and therefore by acting consciousness.

Consciousness reveals that being can be other to itself, i.e. the existence of consciousness implies that being is in some respect other to itself. Consciousness is always directed towards an object (which can include the conscious minded), and in order for the separation of subject and object to exist in the first place, there must be some form of division in being. There could not be a distancing of being from being, as implicit in consciousness, if being itself did not have a property or mode that allowed for such distancing.

If so, the anthropopoiesis animated by the process of distancing induced by consciousness generates culture. That is, consciousness and culture go together. Indeed, the essential requirement for making culture is given by recognize oneself as individuality distinct from the environment, a psychological birth that has come to maturity, as discussed earlier, only during the Middle Paleolithic, after a long psycho-relational and psycho-biological process of individuation-nucleation, started at least 1.7 to 1.2 million years ago with Homo Abilis and almost entirely spent on the fulfillment of the requirements associated to survival and caring for offspring. After this long process of individuation-nucleation was perhaps starting from the later generations of Homo heidelbergensis (archaic humans) and certainly with Homo Sapiens (and therefore from about 300 - 150 thousand years ago onwards) that the psychic territory of the imaginific, from phylogenetically differentiated as it was it turned out more and more epigenetically differentiated, by the sedimentation of the psychic ? mental complex relatively autonomous and independent, which we call epigenetic function of the real (pre-rational and pre-verbal) or conscience, or self-consciousness, or conscious awareness, or simply consciousness. The clues we have in support of this hypothesis are based, as stated above, on the interpretation of finds dating back to a period of time ranging from the second half of Lower Paleolithic to Middle Paleolithic.

Consciousness will be a measure of the ongoing psychic disposition given by the process of individuation-nucleation to which our splitting condition has been subjected since then.

From an anthropo-neuro-psychological point of view the phenomenological definition of consciousness would be: the neuropsychological warp on which is interwoven the weft of the ongoing faculty and ability to ideate, program and engage, not occasionally and not by domestication nor by artificial programming, an adaptive and supra-adaptive behavior not ruled by the phylogenetic prescription and based on distancing of being from being.

Consciousness is not a substance, it is not an entity, it is the phylogenetic and epigenetic result of the process of individuation-nucleation of the human mind-brain-body dynamics: it is a relational possibility that distinguishes us as human beings, which for no reason can be taken as a yardstick to “measure” the behavior of non-human animals, or worse yet as an inherent-immanent property of the Universe.

6. Conclusions

A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because she is limited by the size of her well.

A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season.

A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings.

Now you have come out of your banks and seen the Great Ocean.

You now know your own inferiority, so it is now possible to discuss great principles with you.

Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)

The relationship elapsing between mind-brain-body it has nothing to do with transmission of informations, exchange of meaningful messages, decryption of encrypted code, computational encoding of bit of informations (if the genesis of the biological and mental phenomena had to be based on the precepts of Information Theory, there would be no living nor minded systems at all). The given definition of mind-brain-body system is formulated in relation to human being according to the tension vs energy line of investigation.

The mind-brain-body system, namely the psycho-neuro-physiological dynamics caracterizing an alive and vibrating human being, it can be seen as an autopoietic system strung between the Exited Tension-Gradients Distribution (ET-GD) and the Exited Energy Quanta-Gradients Distribution (EEQ-GD), governed by the syntropic action of a Holographic Strange Attractor, able to develop different degrees of integration and to carry out different functions, that responds to the laws of psychodynamics of non-equilibrium, that constantly redefines, sustains and reproduces itself. The autopoietic dynamic of the mind-brain-body system is organized around biophysical autocatalytic patterns (i.e. self-accelerated) regulated by continuous and non-linear fluctuations of selective tension transfer between the outer-outsight (embedded) and inner-insight (embodied) environment. The trans-neurological selectivity is the central element of the autopoietic neuro-psycho-physiological dynamics. There is a diffuse and integrate neurological intercellular relationship system, supported by a dense network of physical and chemical signals (via synapses, gap junctions, intra-extracellular fluid, plasma membranes, Amniotic Fluid, Cerebrospinal Fluid) capable of interacting with the environmental substrate so as to produce the net of soliton waves, i.e. neuro-electro-chemical impulses or nerve impulses or action potentials, that qualifies the sensory/receptor system activity. Selective tension transfer between intra and extra environment is associated with the production and transduction of tensive signals (coherent scans of tension-state variations or tensive-stimuli) that come into play in the tensive interconnection and in the biophysical processes of the Nervous System tuning (via Phase Conjugate Dynamics; Spin Conjugate Dynamics; Tension Conjugate Dynamics). That is, all neuro-psycho-physiological in-formation dynamics is carried, transformed and made available as holographic tension|energy <Ť|Ê> exotic objects interference patterns on the surfaces of higher order hyperspace fields (species-specific neuro-dependent event horizon) which are non-locally resonant with the intermediate EM field generated by the neuro-psycho-physiological activity. Under the syntropic action of a Holographic Strange Attractor, all the mnesic traces (retention of the absent) that in-form the becoming of this dynamic will give shape to a subset of tension gradients, a fractalized holographic hysteroid, namely the psychic basin of attraction or anthropo-psychic basin of attraction of the human species.

Resorting to the fisher and the pond metaphor used in section two, we could compare mindedness to the neurological species-specific way of fishing in (to be coupled with) the pond of psychism. The whole neurologic organism is the fisher, its body is the rod (normal fish) and the line (soluble fish), its NT ? CNS is the hook. While it is taking place, and only when it is taking place, the action of fishing causes the fisher to experience (via correlative dynamics) a flow of state variations ? sensations, whose consistency, although of aleatory, evanescent, spooky nature (they belong to the psichism pond), takes on a species-specific relational value. When the way of fishing of the fisher, its mindedness, is integrated by consciousness, the ongoing flow of sensations can be experienced as mental images and, eventually, the world can take on a meaning.

Ontogenetically, mindedness can be altered or compromised in two different ways:

・ By altering or compromising the species-specific relational conditions that allow the neurological organism to fish (e.g. as an effect of a natural or anthropic catastrophe that disrupts its habitat, or as an effect of forced separation from its habitat, or as an effect of relationships able to destabilize its relationship of continuity or contiguity with its habitat, etc.).

・ By altering or compromising the physical and/or chemical integrity of the line and/or the morpho-anatomical integrity of the hook it uses for fishing.

In the first case we speak of psychic damage (psychism ? psychic function ? mental function ? cognitive function), in the second case we speak of organic damage. In any case, what comes to be altered is always a system of non-linear relationships.

The positivist and neo-positivist building-blocks based interpretation of the physical (res extensa) and of the psychic (res cogitans) reality, together with the Darwinian interpretation of phylogeny as a linear, progressive and ascending evolution of biological systems, can be useful for utilitarian purposes, but are two misleading ways of mapping the territory which lead to false conclusions. It is time to change our interpretative paradigm on physic and psychic reality.

Conflicts of Interest

The author declares no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.

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