Week 4

I have been asleep for most of the last 3 days. This cold absolutely hammered me. But I want to make attendance. So I will give this post a try, and hope that in the following days those posts will make up for the missing substance in this one.

I have a vastly different take on the subject of cognition than most of the field of Psychology. My perception is founded based on an absolute strict adherence to the use of the scientific method and ignoring all irrelevant details.

Cognition and the Quantum field (Busemeyer, J. R., & Wang, Z., 2014). Biology of the brain and Quantum Physics (Kak, S., 2013).

The first and actually the most important thing about cognition to understand is, it starts with electrical signals being generated through molecular interaction in the Synapses. Those Electrical “shorts” proceed to create a huge cascade effect. Which science and psychology are just starting to understand. However there is little way to actually in the present identify and or measure those electrical impulses. Our tools are simply not sophisticated enough yet.

A synapse fires, that electricity can travel in one or two directions. If one it travels backwards along the neuropathway to another synapse. Where they either do or do not fire on there own to add electricity to the growing mass. However, one thing is absolutely certain; there is a language created based on the “connect the dots” of the synapses which are charged, versus the synapses which “for some reason chose?? not to be included in the firing sequence”. Studying that language would be absolutely fascinating.

I have read most of the following references in previous classes, I did not find most of said information helpful. Those theories are based on starting far far too far down the order of operations to give a solid understanding of what is happening with cognition. The number of action and activities from the synapses to the skin moving equal more than 100,000 process’. Starting your research from repeat skin motion patterns is way to far down the order of operations.

As direct evidence of this you do not need to look any further than Milgram and his studies as to how people can be convinced to perform the nastiest and most disgusting behaviors if the situation is presented correctly (Nicholson, I., 2019).

References

Atkinson, R. C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (1968). Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes. In K. Spence & J.T. Spence (Eds.), Psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 2, pp. 89–195). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.

Busemeyer, J. R., & Wang, Z. (2014). Quantum cognition: Key issues and discussion. Topics in Cognitive Science, 6(1), 43–46. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1111/tops.12074

Craik, F. I., & Lockhart, R. S. (1972). Levels of processing: A framework for memory research. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11(6), 671–684.

Hayes, J. P., VanElzakker, M. B., & Shin, L. M. (2012). Emotion and cognition interactions in PTSD: A review of neurocognitive and neuroimaging studies. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 6(89), 1–14.

Kak, S. (2013). Biological Memories and Agents as Quantum Collectives. NeuroQuantology, 11(3), 391–398. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.14704/nq.2013.11.3.682

Kays, J. L., Hurley, R. A., & Taber, K. H. (2012). The dynamic brain: Neuroplasticity and mental health. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 24(2), 118–124.

MacIntosh, H. B., & Whiffen, V. E. (2005). Twenty years of progress in the study of trauma. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 20(4), 488–492.

Nicholson, I. (2019). A tale of two methods: Gustave Gilbert, Stanley Milgram, and the “Mysterious Nazi Mind” (1945–1965). Qualitative Psychology, 6(1), 99–115. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1037/qup0000098