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 FUR= D=DHMM CF THE OONCEPT OF A --lopment of concepts within a specific domain. By naming ocnoepts and
 "UNIFIED FIELD WITH ffiMN BEIWS,, consc usnes
 .fining their relations the reality becomes reflected in human io s.
                           KRYSPIN, JAN, M.D., Ph.D. 'd thus a reconciliation of opposites of "objective" and "subjective" in our
 2rcePtlOn is achieved. This may be on an elmentary level (oonsciousn--ss as
 oposed to unconsciousness in the medical sense) or on a highly elaborate level
 Department of Pehabilitation @micine ftheological or political consciousness. My methodological approach is
 Ube 1,,bllesley Hospital nist because it tries to avoid juxta-position of unrelated conceptual fram-
 Thronto, Ontario. UMM rks to account for discontinuities in explanation.
 is approach can be traced back to Avicenna, Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz, Cantor
 -d Riemann. From a purely qualitative point of view, each of thErn has
 ,veloped a methodology to deal with ultimate concerns of human existence and
 eson. 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 atca-Listic philosophy and developed concepts
 SU"AARY: iat have not yet been fully appreciated by Pe present scientific community.
 e essential qualitative features of the new model I am proposing here are:
 Four years ago I formulated a concept that anticipated some development of the @ monistic outlook that reconciles the hitherto 
 irreconciliable antincoies
 science of consciousness. Using the notion of "field" I have implied that the '. .
 phenomenon of human consciousness could be contained within the framework of itomisirr-ocintinuity; finite-infinite; 
 freedcor-determinism, information-
 physics I was familiar with at that time - The prerequisite was the compatibil- dformity, etc.) in a new quality (e.g. the 
 Leibnizian monad; my concept of
 ity of RieTannian crecretry with all phenomena of consciousness. The Piemannia, @hieverrent) .
 geometry was an "intrinsic" geometry of a systemindependent of any external @ nc-vq experimeital irodes to overcome the 
 isolationist, pseudo-objective
 ,oreconceived nations of space as we understand it in the Euclidean sense. Ae of experimentation of the l8th and 19th centuries,( 
 that still persists
 Riemnnlan geometry applicable to hunan consciousness would be characterized )day) -
 ny some elementary quantity pertaining to any system that we observe; the
 measurements and rules are determined solely by that system and not by soue I unified approach to creative human endeavours that 
 does not make distinctions
 arbitrary, extrinsic standards. etween the daTains of science and art but uses the method of Socratic
 ialogue to achieve the highest level of reason. The Socratic dialogue I
 Typically, the element of length i -,iderstand as a study of reality based on an analysis of both the preconscious
 Riemannian geometry. s defined by the metric tensor gjk Of ad conscious opposite notions and their reconciliation in a 
 hierarchically
                k .9anized and dynamic interchange.
 As2
 dnj
                  dn
 = gjk
 1 n
 with n ... n being local oo-ordinates of a Riemannian sz)ace.
 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 th.-

 

 ohenomena 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 become more acquainted with the ideas of E. Wigner regarding the relaticn
 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 ITe that a "unified field" is not necessarily a concept of sufficient
 universality to begin with and that a pre-gemetrical 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 the-ologico-political sense. Each of these
 aspects is described, respectively, by a language that reflects a historical
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