- with special reference to fractal neuro-mental thinking
(special comments on Terrorist-type)
Matti Bergström, Pia Ikonen 2002
In Skövde (2001) we presented a report on that thinking, taking place in the human brain's Limbic Self (a Mandelbrot landscape), is a fractal complex process where subconscious (CON) and conscious (SCI) effects meet, determining the outcome of CON-SCIous thoughts. Investigating different subjects we could observe that they used in their thinking different parts of the available three-dimensional complex number space (p, i, r) with coordinates real number p (available possibilities), imaginary number i (subconscious value) and real number r (conscious knowledge). Eight types of the thinking mode could be differentiated, due to which part of the (p, i, r) - space was mostly used by the subject.
The method constited of giving the subject a give his/her immediate attitude (also for this the coordinates were estimated) towards the proposition. Having these data, and programming them in to the Julia equation (J) representing a special case of the Mandelbrot equation so that the proposition was described as a constant complex number (C) and the immediate attitude of the subject as the variable complex number (Z) and letting the equation iterate in the complex space, by computer, the argumentative thought process (conformal with Popper's theory of the argumentative language as the highest mode of thinking) was succesfully modelled as to the subconscious and conscious contents observed. The distribution of the iterational steps (the thinking process) in the pir-space, revealed the type of the thinking process of the subject.
Eight types of think could be identified and differentiated:
These types are also CON-SCIousness types (see Pia Ikonen and Matti Bergström, Skövde 2001).
On this background we can understand certain typical conflicts in the society: man/woman, teist/ateist, humanist/natural scientist, innovator/conservative, extrovert/introvert etc. Also if the genetic type of thinking is in conflict with daily thinking at workplace, it may result in mental and organic symptoms, the latter since since the limbic system regulates our vegatative organs. A kind of typotherapy is possible, as we shown in our experiments. The method implemented in the Julia Brain program (patented) should find application in e.g. decision making and selecting suitable people to enterprises or selecting consumers for special products.
An actual interest (attack of 11st September 2001) relates the Terrorist type. The "empty", frightend Terrorist type has only an uncontrolled primitive, choatic and destructive force. If the brain of a Terrorist is combined with the brain of a Fundamentalist, it results in a dangerous 2-Brain-Unit: a fanatic fundamentalists value gets control over terrorist's primitive and destructive force, directing it to destroy brains with other values! Such 2-Brain-Units can also explained the violent actions of children and youth.
Matti Bergström is emeritus professor of physiology, at medical faculty of University of Helsinki, Finland. Pia Ikonen is Med. Lic. and Researcher at the Department of Ophtalmology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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