Human behavior, and the inner-working dynamics:

The way in which our minds operate seems manifested directly in our superficial behavior. As I mentioned on previous occasions, the body we experience is actually a replica of the physical body, not the physical body per se.

This representation comes incorporated into a bigger representation, which corresponds with the environment. This model of the body seems to be synchronized with the “genuine” physical body, having a direct influence upon it. In other words, every action that the avatar within the brain makes will be directly reflected in the action made by the body. Every single extension of this sensorial homunculus, hands, feets, arms, head, are equally synchronized with the corresponding parts of the huge physical body.

The brain utilizes this model to maintain a unified behavior of the body. Additional fact: Where the cortical regions associated to this inner model become affected by injuries, or neurological illness, the subject may experience a significant distortion —depending on the case— in their conscious experience of the body, going from vivid and convenient hallucinations, consistent involuntary movements, to even the partial or complete disappearance over the conscious experience of having a body.

Steven Lehar has described throughout his essays, that within our common experience of the world, there are these forces that behave as fields, they literally feel like some kind of attraction or repulsion, depending on the case, that dictates the way in which our phenomenal bodies move through the simulated world. One example of this is gravity, the way in which our world representation simulates physical gravity is by generating a phenomenal field pushing us to the ground.

Also, there are other kinds of them, such as valence fields, for example, when something we like appears within our sensorial fields we kind of feel attracted to it, there’s like a subtle force influencing us in order to get closer, and as opposite, when we don’t like something, there appears a phenomenal force around it that repulse us, which push us away. In this case, those fields of “convenience” obviously don’t exist in the external physical world, but we can feel them and act according to them. Creating the illusion that there’s some kind of intrinsic value in the external objects, but that’s just a trick that evolution made to ensure the survival of the huge organism that envelops our world simulation.

Following this reasoning, we’ll notice that there are a lot of dynamics and tricks that occur within our minds that impulse us to make decisions. Something that Steven Lehar points to several times, which is coherent with his theory of harmonic and resonance, as also with the symmetry theory of Valence postulated by Mike Jhonson (co-founder of Qualia Research Institute), is the phenomenon of music, dance, and symmetric patterns seen everywhere we have created, which are seen in our clothes, items of furniture, in art, and in architecture such as churches and cathedrals, and so on.

All of these can be explained, as I said before, by the inner workings of our own brains, the way in which they operate determines all that we do at an external level. As you know now, our phenomenology is rendered by periodic standing waves colliding, and bouncing off of each other, and the shape of those waves, including the way in which they travel determine the hedonic tone of your experience, if their medium is coherent and symmetrical they will feel pleasant, if their medium is irregular, or a-symmetrical they will feel unpleasant, in simple terms. So, intrinsically, symmetry feels great, and it can manifest itself in many ways.

As you probably have seen in a lot of psychedelic art, or if you have experienced those states of mind you probably had noticed these extraordinary symmetrical patterns that according to QRI are a manifestation of nonlinear high energized wave patterns resonating and spreading its excess of energy out, resonance means that all parts are reflecting each other, clicking in coherence, because all in your world simulation is trying to minimize tensions (dissonance) and find an equilibrium that means a low state of energy. So, there’s a strong relation between positive valence and how symmetric the system is.

Therefore symmetric patterns feel good due to this principle that rules our world simulation. Music is symmetry over time, so it counts too. Rhythm, periodic patterns, and symmetry, all of them are qualities of the standing waves that compose our experience of the world, precisely of those ones that feel great…Since we start to use tools and do interesting things with them, one of the first things we did was play with these properties of our own minds and materializing them into the external world.

So, in essence, that’s why we’re too obsessed with music, dance, and visual patterns, it is not a coincidence that we associate them with the emotional tone of our lives, which always seems expressed in theater plays, and movies we use as a source of entertainment.

Image taken from the Youtube channel “Orbitian Media''. 360 video: Inside Milan Cathedral , Milan, Italy. Symmetry.