| Summary: | Neural nets and chaos theory are powerful new frameworks which enable researchers to truly address complexity and to model the mind in terms of dynamical processes and evolving systems. Semantic Fields theory views the mind as a lattice of semantic constellations or SeCos, generated by the interplay of experience, genetic constraints and cultural context. SeCos are self-organized dynamical networks that interweave processes ranging from high-level abstract ones to low-level neuronal ones. It is proposed that thought is instantiated by dynamic chain-linkages within the SeCos-networks. There is considerable experimental and empirical evidence suggesting that psi operates as a multilevel process and that psi information can be channeled into awareness in a variety of ways (such as sensations, feelings, intuitions, thoughts, interoceptive sensations, etc.). From the perspective of semantic fields theory, psi events are a fundamental feature of the underlying connective dynamics across SeCos-networks. It is postulated that the mind is also the source of a projective process which imprints organization and order upon the outer world. This dynamic generates semantic organizational levels in objects themselves—eco-semantic fields or eco-fields. As suggested, semantic connective processes are organized not by space-time parameters, but by semantic parameters (such as semantic proximity), which instantiate nonlocal connections between distant semantic fields—whether between minds or between minds and the environment. Semantic dynamics are the ground for both ESP and PK phenomena, whether conscious or nonconscious. The model hypothesizes that the organizing influence of the mind on surrounding eco-fields will affect the nature and probability of events connected to the person. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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