Thursday, September 20, 2012

Force Field, Unified Field Theory, Human Sciences

Entailed in some ambitions of a 'Unified Field Theory' is the reduction of the 'human sciences' to the 'physical sciences', e. g. of the study of 'conscious' activity to that of electrochemical events.  Now, while the success of the most prominent version of such a project remains debatable, previously presented here has been an alternative version, in which the concept of Force Field has been shown to be derived from Physics, and to be applicable to Biology, Psychology, and Morality.  What distinguishes this attempt from the standard effort is its fundamental principles--Repulsion and Attraction, the fruitfulness of which is entailed in Kant's classification of them, though he does not pursue the elaboration that has been developed here.  In that classification, whereas the ground of the standard model of Physics is mechanical external causality, Repulsion and Attraction are dynamic internal forces.  Thus, the concept of Force Field, i. e. of the interplay of Repulsion and Attraction, can be applied to an activity without reducing it to a dehumanized mechanical event.

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