Psychological Manifold Theory

 Gustave Fechner maintained that the individual human psyche was a result of a variety of voices that were inescapably present to that individual. If these voices were in a dialogue that was “well tempered” so to speak with regard to the underlying governing assumptions of particular cultures then a condition of apparent functional mental heath was attained. If, on the contrary, these voices were out of synchronization with the axioms of society then either a mental crisis would be unresolved leading to a possible mental breakdown or instead a healthy attitude challenging of inadequate or false presumptions of that society’s practice. 

These mental axioms for the most part are not made conscious to the individual person living in society. A sort of gendanken experiment to gauge this principle for yourself is this. — Mentally relive some epoch of your life wherein your working axioms were considerably different than they are now, sort of a “channeling” of your previous worldview. From this standpoint you can construct a kind of manifold of functional axioms governing your behavior which may or may not have undergone one or more phase changes over time.

The mental geometry that we are bringing into consciousness has the quality of a conformation to Bernard Riemann’s great life’s work on gauging the hypotheses that underlay mathematical geometry. Thus his model of how the functional space may proceed through transformational singularities has its correlates in this mental space. I have previously described this correlation for biophysics as a continual theme in these posts. Recalling that the substance of such transformations for biophysics is observable through experimentation, the same should hold true for the psychological manifold. 

What this confronts us with is that the mapping of such individual mental manifolds into the reigning societal norms is also experimentally observable. Now, taking the current world’s zeitgeist as our jumping off point, we can see that a profound crisis confronts ourselves in an unparalleled way in human history. Whereas previously warfare was a given historic axiomatic norm (see forever wars,) the advent of possible all out thermonuclear war leading to the virtual extinction of humanity has necessitated the abandonment of that newly proven false axiom. At the same time, the axioms of divisions of society by inherited historic familial standing based especially on monetary aggregates and power over our governance and form of religion have likewise been brought to a critical breakdown phase. 

The resolution of these dual crises is foreseeable only on the basis of a concert of interests of nations and individuals in them given the opportunity to participate in the mission of creating a new space based civilization via ongoing scientific breakthroughs. This in fact is the only course for the resolution of the disparate voices of our current seemingly insoluble crises.

The Battle of Anghiari after Leonardo da Vinci   By Peter Paul Rubens - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59569