Fundamental Mind Theory
Fundamental Mind Theory (FMT) posits mind as a non-random cognitive agency embedded within all forms of matter. By replacing the assumption of randomness with cognitive agency at the quantum scale, FMT remains consistent with scientific evidence while resolving explanatory gaps that arise from randomness assumptions at multiple scales. This page will evolve as FMT is further developed, with the complete theory to be published in a 2028 joint sequel to our books.
Cells Have Minds That Combine
Our books discuss research showing cells communicate, collaborate, and solve problems - demonstrating cognition and agency we view as evidence of cellular scale mind. Your 30 trillion cells electromagnetically combine their minds to form your human mind. This hypothesis resolve anomalies in neuroscience while resolving mysteries in philosophy of mind.
Asserting that minds can combine faces the classic "Combination Problem." Two solutions are offered which show that the fundamental forces of nature and universal conservation laws enable mind combination if mind is assumed to be an undiscovered quantum scale property, particle, or field. These solutions form the 1st of 4 foundational pillars of FMT.
Minds Combine via Forces of Nature
Evidence shows that physics provides an incomplete description of the behaviors of matter and energy at every scale of the universe, leading to explanatory gaps and causation issues in every scientific theory. The broad scope of this incompleteness across all scales of the universe argues for taking a pragmatic approach when interpreting what scientific theories and evidence may be telling us about the intrinsic nature of reality.
Physics is Incomplete at All Scales
The Wave Energy Exchange (WEX) principle argues the mysteries of quantum physics stem from an unwillingness to give up on particles as fundamental entities despite the evidence supporting an intrinsic wave nature of matter. WEX forms the 2nd pillar of FMT by embodying quantum scale matter with a physically real structure versus treating it as emerging from ethereal excitations of abstract quantum fields.
The Intrinsic Wave Nature of Reality
Randomness Cannot Explain Complexity
An assumption embedded within scientific theories at the quantum, molecular, cellular, organism, and cosmic scales is "random" matter interactions at one scale can explain the emergence of complex structure and behavior at the next higher scale. But these assumptions do not hold up under scrutiny, creating explanatory gaps at every scale. The increasingly complex behaviors that emerge as matter scales remain unexplained.
Coming Fall 2026
Mind Can Influence Matter at all Scales
The 3rd pillar of FMT is replacing the assumption of randomness with cognitive agency (mind) as the driver of the behavior of quantum scale matter. Assuming wave packets have cognition and agency resolves the explanatory gaps created by randomness assumptions at multiple scales while providing a framework for mind-matter interactions.
Coming Winter 2027
Molecules & Viruses Have Minds
Molecules and viruses inside cells communicate, collaborate, and exhibit goal-directed behaviors. FMT explains these behaviors as driven by molecular scale mind as opposed to the current hypothesis that random Brownian motion drives molecular behavior. The subcellular world can best be understood as a complex society of molecules with minds that work together to keep their shared cellular ecosystem alive and functioning properly.
Coming Spring 2027
Mind as the Driver of Evolutionary Mutations
Matter progressively evolved more complex forms from subatomic particles to molecules to cells to complex organisms with brains. At every step, matter demonstrates increasingly intelligent behaviors that create explanatory gaps in physics, thermodynamics, biology, and evolution theory. FMT offers an alternative framework where mind drives the evolution of complex matter in its relentless pursuit to comprehend the universe.
Coming Summer 2027
The Quantum Substratum
The quantum vacuum contains highly energetic quantum fluctuations that facilitate all quantum interactions while grounding, powering, and connecting all matter and energy in the universe. The next physics frontier is the exploration of this quantum substratum beneath the Planck Scale.
Coming Fall 2027
Fundamental Mind
The 4th and final pillar of FMT is the hypothesis that the quantum substratum also grounds, powers, and connects all mind in the universe. The implications of mind existing at the fundamental scale of reality are far reaching and paint an inspiring picture of the universe and our place within it.
Coming Winter 2028