Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400020001-1 FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS OF THE CONCEPT OF A welopment of concepts within a specific domain. By naming concepts and “UNIFIED FIELD WITH HUMAN BEINGS" fining their relations the reality becomes reflected in human consciousness - a thus a reconciliation of opposites of "objective" and “subjective" in our RRYSPIN, JAN, M.D., Ph.D. wception is achieved. This may be on an elementary level (consciousness as posed to unconsciousness in the medical sense) or on a highly elaborate level Department of Rehabilitation Medicine : theological or political consciousness. My methodological approach is The Wellesley Hospital nist because it tries to avoid juxta-position of unrelated conceptual frame- Toronto, Ontario. CANADA rks to account for discontinuities in explanation. ais approach can be traced back to Avicenna, Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz, Cantor d Riemann. From a purely qualitative point of view, each of them has weloped a methodology to deal with ultimate concerns of human existence and son. Avicenna's method exerted a profound influence on the scientific ought and medical practice in the Middle Ages; Leibniz, Cantor and Riemann ve anticipated the crisis of atomistic philosophy and developed concepts at have not yet been fully appreciated by fhe present scientific commnity. w’ essential qualitative features of the new model I am proposing here are: Fou Years ago 1 formated a conespt that anticipated some development of the | monistic outlook that reconciles the hitherto irreconciliable antinomies science of consciousness. Using the notion of "field" I have implied that the itdmism-continuity; finite-infinite; Freedon-determinism, information- ohenomenon of human consciousness could be contained within the framework of tiformity, etc.) in anew quality (e.g. the Leibnizian monad; my concept of physics I was familiar with at that time. ‘The prerequisite was the compatibil- thievement) . ity of Riemannian geometry with all phenomena of consciousness. The Riemannian ; . ; ; geometry was an "intrinsic" geometry of a system independent of any external / new experimental modes to overcome the isolationist, pseudo-objective preconceived notions of space as we understand it in the Euclidean sense, xde of experimentation of the 18th and 19th centuries.( that still persists Riemannian geometry applicable to human consciousness would be characterized ay). “ by same elementary quantity pertaining to any system that we observe; the | unified a ch ; nd that does not make distinctions * proach to creative human endeavours no ahi een tS and rules are determined solely by that System and not by some atween the damains of science and art but uses the method of Socratic arbitrary, extrinsic standards. lalogue to achieve the highest level of reason. The Socratic dialogue I : . . . . derstand as a study of reality based on an analysis of both the preconscious peacally, the element of length As. 1s defined by the metric tensor 55k of nd conscious opposite notions and their reconciliation ina hierarchically Riemannian geometry. rganized and dynamic interchange. As? = Tay, dn an* with n*.. te being local co~ordinates of a Riemannian space. January, 1979. I have felt that these geometrical considerations were necessary to account for the reality of. consciousness in the physical sense. I have also felt that the concept of "field" was necessary to explain some aspects of connectedness of the phenomena of life and particularly of the reality of consciousness. In the meantime, I have had an Opportunity to study the work of Ted Bastin, a physicist and to became more acquainted with the ideas of E, Wigner regarding the relation between physics and consciousness. I have realized that physics deals only with rather special apsects of reality which it tries to characterize by a few simple principles with wide consequences Thus it leaves a vast range of phenomena outside its domain. It became clear to me that a "unified field" is not necessarily a concept of sufficient universality to begin with and that a pre-geometrical analysis of consciousness- related phenomena is necessary at this stage. I understand consciousness to be a model of reality- whether it is in a neuro- physiological, psychological or theologico-political sense. Each of these aspects is described, respectively, by a language that reflects a historical