Physics of Eidetic Motion

Abstract

The arguments developed in this chapter concern what one might call, in its widest sense, the physical “drives” of eidetic motion. As with every other aspect of the eidetic function, the motion of eidetic subsystems may be viewed from different points. There is the mechanism of excitation at the neurophysiological level, i.e., the membrane synaptic electrochemical junctions, and the hodological network of interneural connections, together representing the substrate of every activity of the concerned neurons, and in a sense also the immediate drives of their activity. Although all this is indispensable, it still does not represent the eidetic drive, but rather the common mechanisms that set the neurons in motion, and that underlie every brain structure in every brain region, subserving every brain function. In addition to the mechanisms, we may consider the level of physical principles that govern these neural functions, and especially the eidetic function. These physical principles do not interfere with the mechanisms of excitation; instead, they are concerned with the latter’s organization in a broad sense, by taking care of the integration of eidetic processes with the other brain activities and functions. This will lead us first to consider eidetic processes as a general framework of reference not only for the activity of the eidetic subsystems but also for the whole brain. As is suggested in PTN, the coordinate “time” of brain function space depends on mental engagement, thus making the eidetic system in some way the arbiter of the characteristics of the whole space-time of brain, i.e., of the whole brain reference framework. Analyzing the motion through the ideas’ phase space, as it might be represented by the ongoing activity of the neurons, a type of Brownian eidetic motion, will present the “field” properties of some ideas. These could account for motion through the ideas’ phase space since the concept of a field includes the existence of forces and lines of force, with gradients of a still indefinte, yet real, eidetic energy, representing not the common mechanism of neuronal excitation but an actual eidetic drive. However, this cannot represent the unique drive at work, since there can be an eidetic motion also in a counter-gradient direction, therefore needing a suitable operator.