Towards a unified field theory of human behavior
Integral World (2009)
Abstract
This paper develops a new structural psychology, and therein proposes a specific model for the scientific study of consciousness. The presented model uses Earth's geologic history of mass-extinction & recovery (evolutionary dynamics) in determining humanity’s adaptive response (conscious and non-conscious traits). It argues humanity adaptively mirrors Earth’s basic evolutionary dynamics, in a “mythologizing of natural adversity” as foundation for all human knowledge – a process that continues well into the modern era.
The intellectual lineage used to develop this model includes:
• Evolutionary biology offers a context for this study – answering Chalmers’ “hard question,”
• Paleoanthropology defines the circumstance of human emergence from Gaia,
• Environmental forces on neurophysiology derive an ambiguous but instructive narrative logic (mythic sensibility),
• Psychology tracks humanity’s shift from animal-self to modern creative-self, using work of Hegel > Freud > Jung > Rank > Joseph Campbell > Arnold Mindell as a new structural psychology,
• Fractal geometry offers a holographic design for modeling consciousness,
• Memetics presents a tool for measuring conscious traits, in a variation of the Hall-Tonna values inventory,
• Finally, Structured Opportunistic Thinking, a hybrid of NTL’s T-group, and Pierce’s Power Equity Group Theory, suggests a developmental methodology.
This work presents a “general hypothesizing model” of human consciousness, in attempting a science of consciousness.
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