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    The Matrixial Brain: Experiments in Reality
    The Matrixial Brain: Experiments in Reality
    The Matrixial Brain: Experiments in Reality
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    The Matrixial Brain: Experiments in Reality

    By Paul Chaplin

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    Matrixial Logic: Forms of Inequality provided a revolutionary new analysis of how we actually think. How the logic of reality and the logic of the mind actually work.
    Secret Self: Finding the Power of You was the companion volume. In Secret Self a radical new Systems Architecture of the human Self was presented. Making sense at last of how we think and feel. How we can think governs what we can think.
    Both books are filled with brain experiment "Experiences". Readers are able to try the Experiences themselves and so gain a much greater insight into the ideas discussed in the books.
    Key Experiences from Matrixial Logic and Secret Self were turned into three sets of Experiments. An independent research company formed three cohorts of 30 test subjects each, providing 90 test subjects in total.
    The Matrixial Brain sets out all the Experiments and results in full. Results which invoke a radical reappraisal of established theories in neuroscience, philosophy and psychology.
    We believe that we can think anything we want to. The Experiments also demonstrate the hidden architecture of the mind, and show, that in reality, we can't.
    Readers can try all the Experiments for themselves, and can participate anonymously in the growing database of test subjects.
    The Experiments are important for what they reveal to us about the human brain, its workings, and connections with reality. They also show us the pathways to successful therapeutic interventions. By exploring the limits of your mind, you can change your life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG2 Rights
    Release dateMar 26, 2021
    ISBN9781782818021
    The Matrixial Brain: Experiments in Reality

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      The Matrixial Brain - Paul Chaplin

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      THE MATRIXIAL BRAIN

      EXPERIMENTS IN REALITY

      By Paul Chaplin

      Illustration

      Copyright © G2 Entertainment 2021

      First edition

      Published by G2 Entertainment

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in the retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, with the prior permission of the publishers.

      Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information within this publication but the publishers cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the publishers.

      ISBN: 978-1-78281-802-1

      PREFACE

      PART 1 - MIND MATTERS

      CHAPTER 1MATRIXIAL SCIENCE

      PART 2 - EXPERIMENTS IN REALITY

      CHAPTER 2MIND AND MOVEMENT

      CHAPTER 3MIND FRAMES

      CHAPTER 4CONSTRUCTING

      CHAPTER 5OBJECTIVE MIND

      CHAPTER 6WRITE STUFF

      CHAPTER 7MIND TIME

      CHAPTER 8EMOTING

      PART 3 - MIND MODELS

      CHAPTER 9NEW ROADS TO REALITY

      ANNEXES

      1.STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

      2.EXPERIMENT SETS AND RESULTS

      3.RESULTS TABLES

      PREFACE

      Together, the books Matrixial Logic and Secret Self1, provide over a quarter of a million words, over 1,500 pages, of explanation and analysis.

      The purpose of this volume is not to recapitulate any of that learning, but to contextualise it, in the landscape of the Matrixial Experiments.

      Matrixial Science rests on these propositions:

      (1) That there is a universe of reality independent of the perspective of any individual.

      (2) That any individual (or collective of them) can only interact with that reality in accordance with the processes which are described by the laws of Matrixial Logic.

      The previous 2 books were filled with Experiences. The Experiences were created from the ideas which infuse Matrixial Logic.

      By exploring those Experiences, the reader is able to obtain a very personal perspective of those ideas. To see for themselves how the human brain responds, as a matrixial Systems Architecture, to specifically designed stimuli.

      These Experiences were then turned into Experiments.2 We timed the Experiments delivery so as to be before the publication of Matrixial Logic. That eliminated the possibility of Test Subjects reading more context into the Tests, as millions rushed out to buy the book.3

      We used an independent research company Roots Research Ltd,4 with a web platform designed by the team at La-Plage.5

      All the test Sets are set out in Annex A. The Results are tabulated in Annex B.

      We wanted to create stimuli which could be administered to random test subjects, thereby creating a data pool of responses, from which we could draw empirical conclusions.

      You, the reader, must judge if this enterprise was successful.

      One of the advantages of these Experiments, compared to typical neuroscience or psychological arrangements, is that the reader can try it for themselves.

      So, you’re not limited to passive consideration and analysis of the Tests and Results. You can have a go yourself: and please do.

      A great debt of thanks is owed to the teams at Roots Research, La-Plage and to the enormously talented Fabian Goguta, who derived the statistical analyses of the data sets.

      Fabian has been a researcher for 8 years. He has an M.S. in Psychology, which gave him a broad base from which to approach different aspects of a research project, including literature reviews and statistical analyses. His experience includes both small and large research projects in areas ranging from biopsychology to counselling.

      He has published his own papers, for example: 11 ways clinical trial protocol design can improve speed and costs.6

      Thanks also go to the 90 Matrixial brains who patiently spent their time being subjected to moving mental paperclips, writing with their other hand, and meeting their Avatars: amongst much else.

      Now it’s your turn.

      Paul Chaplin

      2020

      PART (1)

      MIND MATTERS

      CHAPTER 1

      MATRIXIAL SCIENCE

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      Matrixial Logic

      Matrixial Logic is a toolkit. Unlike classical logic, it’s a methodology of invention.

      Chapter 3 of Matrixial Logic set out a critique of classical logic. That’s the logic which begins with the law of identity proposition:

      A=A

      Matrixial Logic (ML) begins with the law of inequality proposition:

      A ≠ A

      As we write the foundational equations of ML:

      (A) ≠ (NOTA) = [E]

      and

      (A) ≠ (-A) = [I]

      In ML, we take as our starting point the difference between anything and any other thing: even an iteration of the first thing.

      We point out that reality – the world out there – is not a collection of identities at all. That the world is a universe of differences is the bedrock of the material sciences. Ever since modern science was invented in the 17th century.

      The idea that all things have an immanent essence – an identity - is wholly unscientific. It was a prejudice amongst the classical Greek thinkers. That prejudice became transmuted, through a curious admixture of Platonic philosophy, Aristotelian physics and middle eastern esoteric deism, into what became orthodox Christianity.

      At the dawn of the modern scientific era, logic attempted to rescue thinking from the dogmas of medieval scholasticism. This paralleled and paved the way for the Copernican, and Newtonian revolutions.

      But, as material science went on to engage with the universe, logic remained stuck in the ruts originally made by ox carts trundling past the groves of classic Greek academies.

      We say that ML is actually the logic of the material sciences. Not just our method of thinking about the world, but the way that the universe actually is.

      That’s why this book is sub-titled Experiments In Reality.

      The Matrixial Self

      The human Self is part of that reality.

      We restate a core proposition of Secret Self:

      Mentation

      How we can think governs what we can think

      Emotion

      What we can emote governs how we emote

      Just as the material universe acts in accordance with laws which we have discovered over the last 400 years, so the Self is governed by its place in objective reality.

      Our subjective self /S/: is bounded by a Systems Architecture:

      Illustration

      By understanding, with ML, the processes of that Systems Architecture of Self, we are able to derive laws of Matrixial Science.

      The Matrixial Brain

      The last 2 decades of neuroscience investigation have enabled a paradigm shift in our understanding the human brain.

      We are no longer limited to the attempt to understand subjectivity and personality, by reference to the mechanical interactions of synapses via chemicals and ionic electrical transmissions.

      We now have empirical evidence for interaction between electromagnetic fields in the brain (arising from synaptic activity) and synaptic transmission timing.7

      It’s simplistic but contextually useful, to say that ML equations are field equations. Not quantitively, the qualitative logic of field equations.

      Matrixial Time

      As we say in Matrixial Science, each of us is a Being in Becoming. By that rubric, we express the temporally dimensional character of human existence in a universe of reality.

      We say that it is temporal dimensionality which is what unifies these discreet beings as becomings.

      In doing so, we take seriously propositions and empirical investigations in to the quantum character of |T|ime. This allows us to identify the locus of |congruence| within each Self and between each Self and that which is (NOT-Self) as temporal synchronisation.

      The Matrixial Science Experiments

      If you wish to prove a theory, you must test it by experiment.

      What constitutes proof is always a matter for debate. However, where a specific reaction is posited in response to a particular stimulus, disproof is easy: stimulus, and zero reaction.

      We then need to benchmark degrees of reaction. To use probability theory, whether Bayesian or other, is difficult. We can utilise an uninformative prior where that is capable of a priori assumption. Assigning an prior probability to that which is completely novel defeats the logic of priors.

      We are left with a [stimulus=>∑effect] model. That’s a rational model. It’s how clinical science operates.

      The total sample size of 90 Respondents is:

      •large, compared to fMRI type studies

      •average, for psychological studies.

      The single Set sample size of 30 Respondents is on the high side, compared to typical fMRI type studies.

      As we note, an attractive facet of the Experiments is that you too, can do them yourself. So you can compare your own experiences of the Tests with those of the Respondent Set groups.

      This provides you with your own personal validation tool.

      In this book, we don’t analyse all of the Experiments. We focus on those which fall into categories of |M|entative experiences, which illuminate the science.

      In Matrixial Science, we have a catchphrase: whatever’s going on here, something’s going on.

      Unwrapping that, what we mean to say is that: if Matrixial Science were wrong, we should expect to see zero or near zero effects of experimentally designed stimuli:

      [=>∑R] ≈ 0

      What we see in the Experiments results, is the very opposite of that.

      No Experiment stimulus produces a zero or near zero effect. The [=>∑R] effect in individual Experiments ranges from 1st quartile up to the middle range of the 4th quartile.

      The average [=>∑R] across all Test Sets is significant:

      This crude benchmarking disregards the use of control tests and of Experiments where the predicted value was negative, rather than positive.

      These averages naturally mask a wide range of [=>∑R] amongst individuals: from 25% as the lowest individual score, to 99% as the highest:

      This distribution is to be expected.

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