ch16- Define You intellectual Attractor Set - What is your passion? Major? Career?

Here you are going to map your cerebral attractor set. These would be subjects that you have intellectual attraction towards. Since morphological flows, as discussed earlier, detail the various subjects of intellectual interest, we are going to go through them step by step in a guided tour. You are going to assign a value, a number between -10 and 10, designating how attractive (10) of repulsive (-10) you think the subject matter is. You are also going to define a will factor from 0 to 10; 0 meaning that you put no effort or will into it, and 10 meaning you put maximal will into it. Finally you are going to define a results value, from 0 to 10; 0 meaning you are a newbe, you haven’t achieved any results yet., and 10 meaning that you have mastered the subject.

So lets start. In the first chapter we discussed the creation of elementary particles in the cosmos.:

1.1- Elementary Particle Physics 

1.2- Cosmology and astrophysics

In the second chapter, we covered creation of atoms from particles. There we covered creation of atomic nuclei through stellar fusion processes and then iterated through the electron quantum numbers to derive the periodic table of elements:

2.1- Nuclear Physics 

2.2- Quantum Mechanics

In chapter 3 we covered creation of atoms:

3.1- Physical Chemistry 

In chapter 4 we covered creation of protobiota:

4.1- Organic chemistry

4.2- bio-chemistry

4.3- Astro-biology- proto-biology 

In chapter 5 we covered the creation of biota from a genetic angle:

5.1- molecular biology and genetics-

In chapter 6 we covered the creation of biota from a fossil record and comparative anatomy angle and we covered the tree of life

6.1- paleontology 

6.2- evolutionary biology

6.3- comparative anatomy

In chapter 7 we covered the evolution of the nervous system and the brain:

7.1- neuroscience 

7.2- evolutionary neurology

7.3- artificial neural networks and artificial life

Of course the last 2 chapters lead on to medicine as well so might as well meter that as well:

7.4- medicine 

7.5 - veterinary medicine 

Then we started charting the evolution of us. In chapter 8 we covered the triune brain model, perception and abstraction

8.1- Psychology 

8.2- Psychiatry

8.3- Philosophy

In chapter 9 we covered historical human evolution:

9.1- History

9.2- Religion

9.3- Political Science

9.4- Economics

9.5- Military arts and sciences

9.6- Agronomy

9.7- Ecology

9.8- Sociology

9.9- Anthropology

9.10- Business and International Trade

In chapter 10 we covered a common model for morphological flows

10.1- Abstract modeling in mathematics

10.2 Abstract modeling in computer science

Again, these subjects aren’t written in stone. So if there are any subjects that are left out go ahead and add them in.

This exercise should be taken say once every six months (you might as well discuss it with your academic adviser). What it will map for you over a period of time, or even in you life time, is how your intellectual morphology is growing, or stagnating. You define how important a subject is, how drawn to it you are, how much effort you are putting into it and what results you are actually achieving. What you will notice is that your will value should correspond with your result values over time. That is, the more you put in the more you achieve and the more you get back. Another thing that will happen is that once you delve deep in a subject, then sub-categories of the subject will emerge. Say you are into political science. In time you may find yourself delving into say political economics. Then once you pursue that, you might delve into military political economics, or some other subcategory. Nonetheless, the deeper you get in any given subject the more specialized you will get. Then over time you find that you attractor set has morphed substantially. Many of the subjects that you were interested in earlier might have waned and entire new sub-categories of your areas of specialization have emerged.
Then, in time, if you are lucky enough, you may find that you have exhausted everything that is known in your areas of expertise. Then you may find yourself in the position of actually pushing the envelope of knowledge forward.