The Three Rules of Mind Forces

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Introduction

Free will means that we can make choices, we can choose to eat an apple or to not eat the apple, to exercise or to not exercise. We can change physical outcomes to something other than what they would have been if we had made different choices, so our thoughts are somehow changing the motion of real matter.

We know from physics that the motion of all matter is fully determined by the sum of the forces acting on that matter. So if our thoughts are changing material outcomes, then our massless and momentum-free thoughts must be exerting real forces on real matter. However, if thoughts are massless and momentum-free, then they cannot be doing any work as this would violate the conservation laws of physics.

Therefore, to succeed in this free will paradigm, we must figure out how conscious thoughts can exert real forces on real matter in a way that changes real outcomes, but without doing any work. This chapter is dedicated to this task.

How a Mind Acts on Matter

We will proceed by creating a succession of scenarios where we will work out, one step at a time, how momentum-free minds act on matter to change material events, but without doing any work.

Scenario 1

In Figure 1, we have an atom at rest against an unmovable wall. A mind has governing control over the atom, so the mind can exert a force on the atom. Here the mind is exerting a rightward force on the atom as shown by the gradient gray arrow pushing the atom to the right. (Gradient colored arrows indicate mind forces.)

Figure 1. An atom is up against an unmovable wall while a mind force pushes the atom to the right. The slanted lines to the right indicate the wall is unmovable.

Even though the mind is pushing on the atom, the atom is not moving because the unmovable wall is stopping it. Because the atom is not moving, no work is being done by the mind force. This means that the mind is successfully exerting a real force on a real object without doing any work, so the mind is exerting a real force without violating any of the conservation laws. We have partially achieved our goals.

However, if the mind exerts no force, the atom remains stationary, and if the mind does exert a force, the atom still remains stationary, so even though the mind is exerting a force, it is not changing the outcome.

We will have to make adjustments to our scenario.

Scenario 2

In Figure 2 below, we now have a bond joining the atom to the wall. The bond is shown as a relaxed spring. The mind again exerts a mind force that pushes the atom to the right, but this time the atom can move to the right, and this rightward motion will compress the bond.

Figure 2. A bond now joins the atom to the wall while the mind exerts a force that pushes the atom to the right.

This means we are now applying a mind force that is changing the outcome – if we apply no force, the atom does not move, if we do apply a force, the atom does move – so the outcome changes as a result of the mind’s decision to apply a force.

Unfortunately, our mind force is now doing work. When we apply the force, the atom starts moving to the right and the bond starts compressing, so in this scenario, the mind force is adding energy to the universe in the form of the motion energy of the atom and the potential energy of the compressed bond. Momentum-free minds exerting forces that do work cannot be allowed as this would violate energy conservation, so this scenario fails.

We will have to make adjustments.

Scenario 3: The Three Rules of Mind Forces

In this scenario, the atom is attached to the end of a bond and it is oscillating back and forth as indicated in Figure 3 below. This time we will lead off with a question. If the mind had the power to apply a force that would instantly freeze the position of the oscillating atom at any moment, would this be allowed by energy conservation?

Figure 3. The atom is now oscillating back and forth at the end of a bond. The question is, could the mind apply a force that instantly freezes the position of the atom and halts the oscillation?

The answer is that it depends. If the mind instantly freezes the position of the atom while the atom is still in motion, then freezing the position would stop the atom instantaneously and all the energy associated with the motion of the atom would vanish. Energy conservation does not allow energy to just disappear, so the mind would not be allowed to instantly freeze the atom’s position while the atom is in motion.

However, if the mind freezes the position of the atom at the moment the atom stops to turn around, then no energy would disappear, so this would be an acceptable action by the mind. Figure 4 illustrates this action.

Because the atom was already at rest when its position was locked, all the energy of the system was already in the compressed bond, so the atom had no motion energy to lose. Furthermore, once the position of the atom is locked, the compressed bond is no longer able to stretch back out, so the potential energy in the bond remains constant. Therefore, applying a mind force sufficient to freeze the atom’s position at the moment the atom stops to turn around does not affect the energy in the system.

Figure 4. The atom here was locked in place by a mind force when it stopped to reverse direction. The rightward mind force shown exactly counters the leftward bond force to hold the atom motionless.

The mind force in Figure 4 is doing zero work because there is no motion in the direction of the applied force. This mind force is also changing the outcome – if we maintain the force, the atom will remain stationary, if we remove the force, the atom will continue oscillating. So for the first time we are successfully applying a mind force that does zero work while still changing the outcome.

The Geometry Locking Rule

We will refer to this method of minds interacting with matter as geometry locking. Using mind forces to freeze the geometry of matter that is already motionless brings us to the first of three rules that will open the door to understanding how minds act on the universe. The first rule of mind forces is the geometry locking rule.

The Geometry Locking Rule:

Mind forces freeze the geometry of matter that is already motionless.

While we are making progress, some physics concerns still need to be addressed. Addressing these remaining physics concerns will lead us to the other two rules of mind forces.

The Zero-Sum Rule

It turns out that we cannot allow the unmovable wall. A wall would have to have an infinite mass to be unmovable, and real walls cannot have an infinite mass. This is a problem because if the wall in the example above were finite, then the mind force would end up pushing the entire system to the right. Both the atom and the wall would start moving to the right because there would be nothing to counterbalance the rightward force from the mind.

As the system began moving to the right, it would gain motion energy and the mind force would end up violating both momentum and energy conservation. For this reason, if any mind ever exerts a net force, it will necessarily end up violating the conservation laws. Therefore, this free will paradigm cannot allow a mind to ever exert a net force.

An analogous argument can be made for mind forces that create a torque (torque is a force that causes a rotation). If any mind should ever exert a net torque, this would also necessarily violate the conservation of angular momentum.

Therefore, in order to comply with the conservation laws, this free will paradigm must limit minds to “zero-sum” mind forces, meaning that both the net force and the net torque from any one mind must always equal zero. This limitation of using only zero-sum mind forces is the second of the three mind force rules, the zero-sum rule.

The Zero-Sum Rule:

The net force and the net torque from any one mind must always equal zero.

The Bond Control Rule

In Figure 4 above, we had a mind exerting a force against a compressed bond. If we could now balance out the one mind force with a second opposing mind force, we would not be violating any of the conservation laws. It turns out we can do this by always having minds act with equal and opposite forces across molecular bonds. Having minds govern molecular bonds is the third key to unlocking how minds exert real forces that change real outcomes without doing any work. This brings us to the third rule of mind forces, the bond control rule.

The Bond Control Rule:

Minds exert equal and opposite forces across molecular bonds to govern those bonds.

For the material that lies ahead, it will be helpful to think in terms of bonds rather than atoms – minds govern matter by governing the bonds of that matter, not the atoms. Forces will be exerted on pairs of atoms only as a result of minds governing bonds.

The Importance of the Bond Control Rule

The bond control rule will play a critical role in some of the most important findings that lie ahead. Most importantly, we will use the bond control rule to identify exactly the atoms of the minderelle. Recall that the mind signature is the molecular structure that reveals the existence of a mind, whereas the minderelle includes all the atoms the mind can act on with forces. It is the bond control rule that will bridge the two.

This rule will also lead us to an understanding of numerous biological processes, which include protein folding, how a myosin protein converts ATP energy into useful forces, and more.

We will refer to the bonds that are governed by a mind as living bonds and bonds that are governed solely by the physical laws as natural bonds. To be clear, if a bond is a living bond, then the mind will be able to exert forces on both the atoms joined by that bond.

Together, the three rules of mind forces will make it possible for minds to exert real forces on real matter in a way that changes real outcomes, but without doing any work. Because mind forces do not do any work, they will be fully compliant with the conservation laws. With the three mind force rules to guide us, we will now move on to the three types of geometry locks.