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We may consider a mental informational field on account of the telepathy phenomenon and because such a field may contribute to the integrating activity of the brain. The substance in the universe is obviously discontinuous. The nervous system is built of this discontinuous substance and yet we can pass to continuity at a mental level. However, we cannot speak of a subjective continuum. We have already seen that matter appears to be continuous in profundities. Hence, there exists an underlying principle of the continuum, which changes into one of the discontinuum as soon as substance, i.e. the elementary particles, are at play. In a way, the elementary particles are a concoction of the deep continuum and of the discontinuum in the universe. The space originating with the universe, hence with the elementary particles, can only be discontinuous, whereas the space particles contain the same continuum seed pertinent to the profound matter. By virtue of the theory of relativity, the space may be treated as a continuum, given that we regard it against the panel of the mental continuum. Einstein observed that "The object of any science, whether a science of nature or psychology, is to coordinate our states of consciousness and incorporate them into a logical system"¹². Einstein states that the space may be cogitated as a continuum¹³ as a result of an historical experience. The whole theory of relativity develops upon postulating the continuum of space and time in their inseparable unity: "continuum spatii et temporis est absolutum"¹⁴. However, the postulation of the continuum is not subjective; it mirrors an objective continuum and also the observation of what has discontinuous forms in the continuum.

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The discontinuum and the continuum appearas combined realities in the material world. The immediate questionis where and how these realities combine. First, upon the birthof the elementary particles, then most likely in certain molecular aggregates which assume a living character. No continuous integration can be virtually made if we only operate in terms of the discontinuous, unless the "shells" of the elementary particles get somehow dissolved so as to make the continuum accessible to us. Let us now see what phenomenon could allow the elementary particles to get free of their shells. This phenomenon must no doubt be rather ordinary and must develop upon certain combinations of atoms, hence in the case of molecules under certain conditions. That is why by virtue of the experience gained thus far this thing must in all likelihood happen even in the most elementary molecular aggregate provided that it should behave like a living one. Finally, this might also happen in a chemical molecule under conditions which should allow it to have access to the informaterial field so that the informational field may be safely involved in the functioning of the whole. Like associations are also found in quantum mechanics where the common electrons of two or more atoms are responsible for the chemical bounds. We may now righteously ask whether informaterial associations might not arise under certain conditions.
The above stated might suggest the idea that the brain-informatter coupling cannot occur in the macroscopic structure of the brain. It appears more likely that this coupling occurs in molecules and hence the chemical activity of the brain should virtually be extremely important in brain functioning and in the development of the basic properties of the brain.

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