Kent Lachlan
Mental Wellbeing Initiatives, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia.
Entropy (Basel). 2023 Aug 30;25(9):1275. doi: 10.3390/e25091275.
The principle of mental gravity contends that the mind uses physical gravity as a mental model or simulacrum to express the relation between the inner self and the outer world in terms of "UP"-ness and "DOWN"-ness. The simulation of increased gravity characterises a continuum of mental gravity which states includes depression as the paradigmatic example of being down, low, heavy, and slow. The physics of gravity can also be used to model spacetime curvature in depression, particularly gravitational time dilation as a property of MG analogous to subjective time dilation (i.e., the slowing of temporal flow in conscious experience). The principle has profound implications for the Temporo-spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC) with regard to temporo-spatial alignment that establishes a "world-brain relation" that is centred on embodiment and the socialisation of conscious states. The principle of mental gravity provides the TTC with a way to incorporate the structure of the world into the structure of the brain, conscious experience, and thought. In concert with other theories of cognitive and neurobiological spacetime, the TTC can also work towards the "common currency" approach that also potentially connects the TTC to predictive processing frameworks such as free energy, neuronal gauge theories, and active inference accounts of depression. It gives the up/down dimension of space, as defined by the gravitational field, a unique status that is connected to both our embodied interaction with the physical world, and also the inverse, reflective, emotional but still embodied experience of ourselves.
心理引力原理认为,心智将物理引力用作一种心理模型或模拟物,以“上”与“下”的概念来表达内在自我与外部世界之间的关系。引力增加的模拟表征了心理引力的一个连续体,其中包括抑郁状态,抑郁是处于低落、消沉、沉重和迟缓状态的典型例子。引力物理学还可用于模拟抑郁中的时空曲率,特别是引力时间膨胀,这是心理引力的一种属性,类似于主观时间膨胀(即有意识体验中时间流逝的减缓)。该原理对于意识的时空理论(TTC)在时空对齐方面具有深远意义,时空对齐建立了以身体体现和意识状态的社会化为中心的“世界 - 大脑关系”。心理引力原理为TTC提供了一种将世界结构纳入大脑结构、意识体验和思维的方式。与其他认知和神经生物学时空理论协同,TTC也可以朝着“通用货币”方法努力,这也有可能将TTC与诸如自由能、神经元规范理论以及抑郁的主动推理解释等预测处理框架联系起来。它赋予了由引力场定义的空间的上下维度一种独特地位,这种地位既与我们与物理世界的身体互动相关,也与我们对自身相反的、反思性的、情绪化但仍具身体性的体验相关。
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