Dear Sir,

Your paper was highly engrossing. However, the statement: “how mindless mathematical laws can give rise to aims and intentions” appears self-contradictory. The universe progresses mechanically following mathematical rules. But unless an observer applies its mind to the resultant state, it makes no sense. Once someone applies mind to the external impulses, only such interaction...

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Dear Sir,

Your paper was highly engrossing. However, the statement: “how mindless mathematical laws can give rise to aims and intentions” appears self-contradictory. The universe progresses mechanically following mathematical rules. But unless an observer applies its mind to the resultant state, it makes no sense. Once someone applies mind to the external impulses, only such interaction gives rise to aims and intentions. Would you kindly elaborate on this?

You have correctly said that: “If it were possible to establish a behavioral link to a material sphere of influence, then behavioral psychology (and its extensions to the realm of the neurosciences) would finally become conceptually complete”. But such links had been established long ego by our ancestors. We will give one example of the mechanism of thought.

If we wanted to know which force causes thought – the answer is the laws of inertia. There are three forms of inertia elaborated in an ancient book: Compendium on Properties of Matter. The first of course, is inertia of motion. The second is thought and the third is inertia of restoration, which is generally referred to as elasticity. Inertia is generally defined as the resistance of any physical object to any change in its state of motion. This includes changes to its speed, direction, or state of rest. But it is also the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at constant velocity. Generally, application of force moves an object. But what happens when the force ceases to apply? Since force causes motion, cessation of force should imply cessation of motion. However, since the bodies are seen to move even after the force ceases, there must be something that moves an object after the force ceases to operate. This is called counter-force, as it counters the normal effect of force or the absence of it (which should have normally made the object to be at rest). This counter-force is called inertia. There is nothing as inertia of rest. Rest is the condition of mutual cancellation of all forces acting on a body. This includes inertia, which also moves bodies. Rest gives the particle or the body its position.

When it continues the displacement of objects fully from its position, the inertia is called inertia of motion. When it displaces partially but not completely from its position, the inertia is called inertia of restoration. It continues to operate as long as the force continues to operate, by generating a counter-force. Hence, it is a type of inertia. Perceptions like "seeing, hearing, touching, etc.", are generated when an external impulse interacts with its respective sense organs, which can be linked to the fundamental forces of nature (like seeing is related to electromagnetic, taste to weak interaction, touch to another variant of weak interaction, smell to strong interaction and sound to gravitation). These five can be related to alpha, beta, delta, theta mind waves and their gamma coupling. Thought is generated when we perceive the images of not objects directly reaching our senses, but the direct perception of something triggers indirect perception by drawing from memory the earlier perceptions or realizations. The book elaborates on how these are generated and continued and how these are destroyed.

The dual parameter grid in Fig 1 is according to you: represent the first "Periodic Table for the Human Forebrain”, … imparting a crucial sense of systematic order and purpose. This is correct. But the listing does not explain life or consciousness (behavior in the present context is a conscious process). These processes cease immediately after death. Thus, there is something that energizes and regulates these functions. We are not talking about soul or something like that here. But how do you explain these functions and their cessation? How are the numbers assigned to Fig1? How these numbers progress with intervals and why? After Humanistic values, why the numbers suddenly fall? We would like to be educated on these areas.

Regards,

basudeba

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