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A Cosmic Field Theory of Mind
By Dr. Harold Levinson
Exerpted from Dr. Levinson's book, The Discovery of Cerebellar Vestibular Syndromes and Therapies, Chapters 14 and 15; pg 305–321, (previously titled A Solution to the Riddle — Dyslexia)
God is cosmic and organismic mind,
Mind is an electromagnetic computer field,
Matter is energy transformed,
Earth is a speck in the cosmos,
Man is a cell in the dust,
Science is an electron in search of its orbit,
Theory is one of many orbits,
Fact is fiction in perspective,
The End is just a new beginning…
In order for science to progress, scientists must be free: free to think and speak, free to daydream and speculate, free to criticize and be criticized, free to be right and wrong, free to be dysmetric, dyslexic, and dyspraxic. This chapter is dedicated to the spirit of scientific freedom. It is the last research chapter in this book, and perhaps the opening chapter in others to follow. Symbolically, it demonstrates the author's belief that knowledge and progress are merely dynamically fluctuating quanta oscillating between any given scientific introduction and summary.
As the author became increasingly aware of the astronomical complexity characterizing the dynamic centripetal (input) and centrifugal (output) forces crucial for conceptualizing such normal mental events as perception, memory, contact, communication, and thinking, as well as such abnormal mental events as phobias, conversion hysteria, inhibitions, and obsessive-compulsive phenomena, it became apparent that the mind's "enchanted loom" was far more complex than its known component parts: structure, circuits, and internal synaptic interaction. For example, although Eccles et al. (1967) beautifully described "the cerebellum as a neuronal machine," they could not find the programmer or Mind in the computer: highlighting the fact that Mind cannot be found in, or localized to, specific brain function and structure. As a result, in Facing Reality, Eccles (1970) turned to religion and God for answers to Mind's site and method of functioning.
Because Mind could not be localized to structure, and because the author was initially biased against accepting religious explanations for scientific events, he attempted to explain Mind without structural and religious terms. However, in the final analysis the author was forced to renounce his initial religious bias and acknowledge that religious conceptualizations of Mind and mental events come closest to explaining scientifically its site and action-demonstrating that the gulf between scientific and religious conviction and explanation is just one more pseudoscientific illusion.
The author reasoned that for any scientific theory of Mind to be valid, it must be consistent and harmonious with Mind's defining background data. Therefore, in order to attempt a first rough scientific sketch of Mind, it seemed crucial to explore and analyze Mind's existing database and corresponding "free associations" as if interpreting the manifest content of a dream. By analyzing Mind's manifest "dream content" and the underlying resistance mechanisms shaping its conscious expression, the author hoped to discover Mind's hidden background or latent "dream content," and thus form a theory of Mind.