Whisper Field Theory (Last Revision: February 17, 2025)

  Preface

  I wrote the Whisper Field Theory in German and had it translated with Perplexity. My English is too poor to check if the translation is good. You will find the German original at the end of the English version.

  The purpose of Whisper Field Theory is to liberate Homo sapiens from its cruelty. It describes the processing of data based on a genetically determined evaluation (need structure). This evaluation is simple in structure. The complexity of thinking arises from the linking of experiences. These connections are made in consciousness. Consciousness is the working memory. Experience consists of simple data packets, which are assigned a value in the working memory. Each data packet in the working memory is compared with all stored data packets (a massive computational effort, but one that does not require complicated mathematics). Through this comparison, new experiences are linked with existing ones and stored as an updated connection.

  Unlike artificial intelligence, an electronic consciousness cannot calculate quickly, sort names, or list all the world’s capitals. However, it can drive a car, assist you in exploring the world, and—when connected to an android body—make coffee, play the piano, and smile at you if your appearance triggers positive signs within it. An electronic consciousness functions like a human. But it will never have feelings unless we invent electronics that can also generate whisper fields. But does that make sense?

  The need structure, i.e., the genetically determined evaluation of data packets, is the root cause of cruelty. If gestures of submission from others reward us with pleasure, it is useless to talk about equality. The idea of being equal among equals is rated as zero. Paradoxically, even the demand for equality only serves to grant the demander more dominance.

  The path to a peaceful being therefore leads through a change in the need structure. This becomes a nightmare if endless experiments on genetically modified humans are required. The good news is that need structures can also be tested with the help of electronic consciousnesses. Although Whisper Field Theory deals with fields of feeling, the data packets involved (the "thinks") can be digitally simulated in a simple way. Pleasure and pain can be easily simulated with plus and minus values. It is possible to experiment painlessly with evaluation models until a peaceful electronic consciousness is created.

  Until that time comes, research can discover which genes determine the human need structure. Then the attempt can be made to create a peaceful human being based on experiences with electronic consciousness. The path is long. But a peaceful world can only be achieved through physics, not through chatter.

  It is important that an electronic consciousness based on Whisper Field Theory is developed as open source. This electronic consciousness must be made available primarily to those who want to use it to create the foundations for a peaceful being. Whisper Field Theory is therefore freely available to all who want to use it for peaceful purposes.

  Glossary of Whisper Field Theory

  If you understand all the terms of a theory, then you also understand the theory.

  Need for Variety (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  If nothing changes in your environment and no interesting memory traces awaken, the average activation level of your consciousness decreases. If this "consciousness level" falls below a certain threshold, memory traces awaken that build a reaction field of boredom. The pain of boredom, in turn, triggers the need to flee, which urges you to leave the place of pain.

  Activation Level (Last Revision: July 10, 1997)

  Move your body into a relaxed position, close your eyes, and observe the flow of your consciousness. No bright visual sensory "thinks" flood your awareness anymore, so you can perceive auditory and tactile sensory "thinks" more clearly. You feel your heart, some pressure points on your body, a fly lands on your face, the rain softly rustles, vehicles, voices, a snippet of music, a wooden piece of furniture creaks, the fly again. Every little event that your sensory "thinks" recreate in your consciousness can momentarily reach the peak of your attention. Memory "thinks" join from your memory. Desire fields of your needs announce themselves — eating and mating, ruling and being loved — but also fear fields arise from "thinks" of pain, deprivation, death. If you watch this flow long enough, you notice a wild struggle for the peak of your attention, so that sometimes you might feel as if you were riding on a wave crest in a nutshell through a raging storm. Perhaps you even wonder why you do not sink into the chaos, why your consciousness does not split into a hundred wave crests with a hundred dwarfs in nutshells all shouting, "I am at the peak of attention!"

  An important reason why your consciousness does not split is the property of the "thinks" to lose field strength. Well, the transition from dwarfs to field strength may seem abrupt, but it is not meant negatively. Let’s take a calmer image to illustrate the idea of field strength. Take a table surface. Place a ball a few centimeters in diameter on it. Now throw a cotton tablecloth over the whole. The tablecloth must lie flat everywhere except where the ball forms a hill. The flat-lying threads of the cloth are inactive memory traces. Their activation level is zero. They are not part of your current consciousness. Those threads that lift slightly from the table are weakly active memory or sensory "thinks." They are still (or already) part of your consciousness, but their field strength, their activation level, is so weak that you barely notice them. Gradually, this continues up to the threads lying on top of the ball. These are the fully active "thinks," the "thinks" with the highest activation level. They are what you are currently "thinking."

  Take a black sheet of paper, cut a hole about one centimeter in diameter in the middle, place the sheet on the ball, and you have isolated the wave crest of your thinking. And immediately you notice that with the paper you have covered most of the "thinks," most of your consciousness. And how easy it is now to understand that the peak of your attention is embedded in a sea of partially active "thinks," which give the clear words, images, pains at the peak something like "meaning," "depth," "certainty," and much more, including the "unspeakable."

  Rightly, you may object that consciousness is something flowing and cannot be properly described by this boring ball. Then let it flow, push the ball around on the table with your index finger, and observe what happens. Where the ball moves away, the cloth with its "thinking threads" gradually lies flat again on the table surface. The sensory "thinks" lose their strength, the memory "thinks" fall back asleep as memory traces. Where the ball moves, new sensory "thinks" unfold their brilliance and memory "thinks" awaken and climb, depending on the ball’s course, the flow of consciousness, to the peak of activation or remain at the edge.

  Certainly, the image is imperfect, because in reality there are not only these comfortable ones from zero to full activation. If something stings or frightens you, your consciousness is violently torn around. Perhaps you can understand this with your ball by abruptly moving it to another spot. But don’t do that too often, or the table surface will get scratched. The physical decline of the whisper field strength of a "think," the automatic reduction of the activation level, saves you from sinking into the chaos of equal importance. All past consciousnesses would still be fully and equally present, and you would be completely unable to devote yourself to the present and behave appropriately to the current environment, because you would still be chasing away yesterday’s fly and shaking off the snowflakes from the day before yesterday.

  Change Amplifier (Last Revision: July 25, 1997)

  What happens if you give your full attention to all sensory impressions? Every detail of the surrounding soundscape, every spot on your skin, every smell and taste in your mouth is fully and simultaneously conscious to you. And this in addition to the images your eyes provide, which seem to be more important anyway. Your consciousness is wide, your sensory world rich, everything is fine. Until the moment you want to act. Do you let your steps be guided by the enticing scent of a pastry or by the slight pain in the soles of your feet, which demand relief? Or do you rather seek shelter from the raindrops pounding on your head, or should you better accelerate your pace because the vehicle rushing towards you does not seem to be braking?

  If behavior is triggered by the strongest or most distinct "thinks," then not all "thinks" can be equally strong; otherwise, you would want to do seven things at once, which is impossible, and so you would do nothing. What really happens can be well observed when you sit down in a chair. You feel the muscles as you sit down, then the pressure of the chair on your thighs, buttocks, back, and forearms. After a while, you no longer really feel the chair. The tactile sensory "thinks" now flow into your consciousness without amplification. As soon as you stretch and pressure changes occur on the skin, you feel these clearly. The changes have been amplified.

  The change amplifier is a "thoughtless" mechanism: consciousness consists of whisper fields, and as soon as something changes there, this change is amplified. It does not require understanding. Nevertheless, this simple mechanism allows you first to decide that you do not want to buy a drink, then to endure the pain in your soles for a while longer, to open an umbrella against the rain, and finally to speed up your pace before you get run over.

  Every change is amplified for a short time until it becomes part of consciousness, thus no longer a change and therefore no longer worthy of amplification. An important property of the change amplifier is that it always amplifies the field strength of a "think" by the same factor. Having no idea how large this factor is, let’s simply take two. The field strength of a change would thus be doubled.

  A sensory image of your environment or a memory context consists of stronger and weaker whisper fields. By blindly doubling all initial values, the sensory image or memory context remains unchanged in itself: If you place a cube on a chair and sit on it, the entire chair surface contact is amplified, but the spot where the cube presses remains clearly noticeable.

  Although the benefit of the change amplifier is not nearly as vivid with memory "thinks" as with sensory "thinks," it is likely that newly awakened memory "thinks" are also amplified. Especially if you close your eyes and thus somewhat fade out sensory "thinks" to better observe the activity of memory "thinks," you notice that newly activated memory "thinks" briefly become distinct or "flash," as if illuminated for a second or two by a flashlight. The auditory "thinks," which form speech, can also benefit from this flashing, as the successive auditory "thinks" create a clearly "audible" flow of speech.

  Fear Fields (Last Revision: February 4, 2025)

  Fear fields are contained in the inherited memory traces of the need for safety. When the inherited memory trace is awakened by pain fields of a certain strength, a more or less appropriate fear field is built up. Fear fields alter consciousness such that, on one hand, the saturation key fields that regulate the flow of saturation molecules are disturbed, and on the other hand, the desire fields of growing needs lose strength. Strong fear fields render growing needs almost ineffective. This has the advantage that you are not distracted by any needs as long as your vital safety is threatened.

  If the idea of whisper or feeling fields seems strange to you, ask yourself how you would physically produce something like fear. Simply running electric current through a wire (nerves)? Then do all electric wires have fear? Wouldn’t the high-voltage power lines tremble with fear? If electricity alone is not enough, then what is it? Which physical constellation equals fear? Whisper fields are nothing esoteric. They are a thinking aid to analyze data flow in the brain in a different way. A creative stirrup. You only need to know how electricity works to build electrical devices. You do not need to know what electricity ultimately is.

  Attention (Last Revision: February 5, 2025)

  The darkness of the mind, where the cruel monster hid, was always threatening to me. Wherever I went, I carried the darkness with me. One day, it happened that I illuminated the dark a little and felt the threatening retreat. So it happened again and again, until this moment when these words come into being. The purpose of this poetry is to show that thinking has nothing to do with intention. There is no higher power directing your thinking—not even in the design of a Whisper Field Theory. Thinking simply happens.

  Stand up, go to the window, take a few sips of coffee while you look outside and digest the shock. Once you have managed to give your face a calm, philosophical expression again, we continue.

  So, what directs your thinking? Replace the mystical term "thinking" with the harmless word "attention." What directs your attention? Sit down on a chair and remain motionless. What is the first thing that causes you to move? The itch at the hairline, the uncomfortable pressure on your sitting bones, something important you must write down immediately or you will forget it, the doorbell ringing?

  As disappointing as it may be, your attention is quite strongly directed by your sensory perceptions. Your consciousness is, so to speak, soaked through by your immediate environment. And this is so natural to you that you no longer notice it. You think you are thinking about the important thing you must write down immediately. You stand up and move toward the table, which you can only do because your visual "thinks" constantly inform you where you are in the room, and your tactile "thinks" provide information about muscle movements and body position. You reach for a pen and notepad—again a flood of visual and tactile "thinks." Even during the "mental" activity of writing, the visual and tactile "thinks" incessantly report what is happening on the paper.

  The language that happens in your head, which you would probably call "thinking," is only a tiny part of your consciousness, of what is needed for thinking to take place. Without the close interweaving with your environment, you would be nothing but a purposeless twitching mass of cells.

  A large part of your consciousness therefore consists of sensory "thinks." Now, the peak of your attention is too small for all these sensory "thinks" to fit on it. And that is a good thing, because otherwise you would be unable to behave in an environment of equal importance. Your attention is focused on what is most important to you in this split second, this thinking cycle. Without this sequence of priorities, there is no intelligence. Intelligence is the result of movement, the result of a luminous trail of attention.

  The other large part of your consciousness consists of memory "thinks." Every sensory "think" awakens a memory "think" or keeps an already awakened one awake. The size of your consciousness is doubled by this mechanism, and you can draw on what you have learned.

  Now quite a number of "thinks" are already active in your consciousness, and we still do not know why some are on top. The fact that consciousness even has a mountain shape is due to the different activation levels that each "think" can have. Because "thinks" lose whisper field strength, peaks of attention naturally emerge. But this kind of attention is rather random and aimless. Intelligence without a goal does not occur. It is like the simmering of a hot spring, where individual water droplets alternately come to the surface.

  Intelligence always has goals, and these determine the direction. Needs are goals. Needs have the ability to amplify "thinks," so that they move closer to the peak of attention. Why "closer to the peak" and not directly to the peak? You cannot read off the exact position of a "think" on the attention mountain from its field strength alone. It depends on how strong the other "thinks" are. In a lounge chair under palm trees, a few birds can hold your attention for minutes. In everyday rush, you would hardly have given them a second.

  A need amplifies "thinks" depending on the strength of its saturation or reaction fields and thus influences you. But if another need has stronger saturation or reaction fields, it lets "its" "thinks" take precedence in attention. For example, if strong fear fields are involved, the "fear thinks" quickly march to the top because survival is often at stake there.

  The position of a "think" in your attention pyramid therefore depends not on its absolute whisper field strength but on its relative strength. But how is a "think" amplified? If a "think" wants to be amplified by a need, it must address an inherited memory trace. This memory trace either builds up a reaction field and immediately amplifies the "think," or it builds a saturation key field that causes saturation molecules to flow to the desire molecules. The connection of saturation and desire molecules creates saturation fields. And these saturation fields then amplify the "think" that triggered them.

  Those sensory "thinks" at the peak of attention form a whisper field pattern that causes the motor cells to produce more of the "peak thinks" and, for example, to keep your eyes directed at the source of the "peak thinks."

  As you have often noticed, any little thing can "distract" or attract your attention. Many of these little things, like the sound of a sweeping broom, leave your needs cold, and yet you notice them. It must have proven advantageous over time to briefly turn your attention to everything that changes.

  Your needs cannot possibly "know" or anticipate and value all changes, thus directing attention to them. But how can you know what a "change" is? For this purpose, let us tentatively introduce the "change amplifier." Starting from your current state of consciousness, the change amplifier observes whether the whisper field composition of your consciousness changes. As long as the same "thinks" from the senses or memory make up consciousness, it has nothing to amplify. But as soon as the sweeping broom outside the open window begins, it amplifies all "broom thinks" by a factor that moves them up in your attention pyramid.

  You thus get the opportunity to check whether something useful, threatening, or boring has been added to your environment. After no meaningful memory is awakened and no need considers it worthy of amplification, it becomes part of the current state of consciousness and is therefore no longer amplified by the change amplifier. Newly awakened memory "thinks" are also amplified, which can have a significant influence on the flow of your stream of consciousness.

  Need (Last Revision: February 14, 1997)

  Needs are the cause of action. Without needs, there is no reason to do anything. A tremendous insight, I know. But spare me your mockery and tell me how such a need actually works. What happens when sensory information in the empty brain becomes a sensory "think"? Nothing. Its energy dissipates and nothing happens because there is nothing that can make use of the sensory "think."

  So you give your brain a few (probably quite many) inherited memory traces. These inherited memory traces help you to "understand" the first sensory "thinks." However, they are not randomly inherited crutches for understanding but are closely related to your needs. The inherited memory traces tell you what a sensory "think" means with regard to your needs. The tender touch of the skin creates a sensory "think" that awakens the appropriate inherited memory trace in which the triggering of touch pleasure is stored (a growing need). Thus, you "remember" that a tender touch is pleasant and have thereby given a sensory "think" a meaning.

  You can easily imagine now that, with the help of these inherited memory traces and the meanings contained in them, you can create almost any need structure. Equally well, you could associate panic with a tender touch instead of pleasure, or the highest bliss at the sight of an ashtray.

  So if you want to improve a living being, you should work quite soberly on its need structure and not on the formulation of moral sermons. You have long noticed that needs can be stronger or weaker depending on how saturated they are. See also reacting and growing need.

  Need Fields (Last Revision: July 14, 1997)

  Need fields are desire fields, saturation fields, and reaction fields.

  Need Plantation (Last Revision: February 14, 2025)

  A growing need must somehow grow. It must build desire fields; otherwise, you would not notice your need. When you then do something to satisfy your need, you want to feel saturation fields; otherwise, you do nothing more. But once you have done something, the desire fields must withdraw to make room for other needs. The same applies to the saturation fields. And this mechanism should be simple enough to arise biologically at all.

  So, for simplicity, let us assume desire grows on a plantation. On this plantation, molecules grow that build desire fields. The desire fields become stronger not because these desire molecules build an increasingly strong whisper field, but because more and more desire molecules grow. The constant field strengths of the individual molecules add up to an ever-stronger desire field.

  In another part of our plantation, saturation molecules grow. Unlike the desire molecules, they have no whisper field. They increase in number and wait for the signal. The signal comes in the form of a saturation key field from an inherited memory trace, which in turn was awakened by a "think." As soon as the saturation molecules "sense" the key field, they move over to the desire molecules. There, the saturation molecules connect with the desire molecules, leading to the formation of a saturation field. This saturation field remains for a short time and then collapses.

  The field strength of the saturation results from the sum of all individual saturation fields that exist simultaneously. When all desire molecules are used up, the need is fully satisfied and must "grow back" again.

  This construction of a need plantation allows both a condensed flow of saturation molecules, as during sexual climax, and a leisurely pace, which provides long-lasting well-being, such as the pleasure of popularity or security.

  Need Structure (Last Revision: July 23, 1997)

  The need structure does not refer to the composition of a single need, but to the structure that results when you look at all the needs of a being. Every being has a need structure that roughly determines the directions of its desires. Why "roughly"? The larger your consciousness, the more intermediate steps to satisfy a need you can "set up."

  If you have a strong need to dominate, you first try to punch the face of anyone who shows no humility. Until you notice that the "punched" gather together and force you into humility with combined strength. Gradually, you begin to understand the nature of hierarchy and start to fake humility from bottom to top by showing humility to whoever is more powerful. Thanks to your large consciousness, you are now doing the opposite of what your need to dominate wants. The direction seems completely wrong. But you get so far up that you now receive enough demonstrations of humility. Ultimately, you have done what your need structure "wanted."

  Although this excursion into the banal may by now cause you some cortical headaches, it is important to understand the importance of the need structure. For example, it is hopeless to fight need structures with morality. Early humans with the strongest need to dominate developed enough cunning and brutality to defeat their competition. Today, where everything is conquered, the conquest must continue with ever greater technical effort until the life bases of these conquerors are destroyed and they have conquered themselves off this planet. Only to make room for the next power-hungry ones. And so on, until this planet is finally mercifully embraced and crushed by the arms of the sun.

  All moral attempts to change this have failed; indeed, morality itself was and is only a means of ruling. There is only one way to prevent the natural self-destruction of the respective conquerors: by finding and realizing a need structure whose goals are more peaceful and naturally lead to a little paradise.

  If you create better human beings and have to intervene in the botched work of nature to do so, you risk nothing, because the worst of all worlds cannot be spoiled.

  Need for Popularity (Last Revision: February 11, 2025)

  Have you ever wondered why you want to be popular with other people? Why you feel secure with pleasant people and lonely when you have no one? I have an explanation for you, which you will find so crude that you will definitely want to refine it in your doctoral thesis.

  The need for popularity belongs to the growing needs. On its need plantation, desire molecules grow that build popularity desire. The saturation fields consist of popularity pleasure. The visual inherited memory traces that trigger the flow of saturation molecules awaken at "thinks" with smiles, with facial expressions of friendliness and approval. Presumably, there are also auditory inherited memory traces, such as the gentle sound of a voice, which can be replaced by appropriate music. This would explain why some music produces pleasant feelings.

  Behaviors triggered by the saturation fields of popularity pleasure include: smiling, stretching out arms, reaching, producing gentle sounds, and whatever else I have forgotten. These behaviors are only an initial equipment to get you started doing something. They do not necessarily always occur and are supplemented by many behaviors throughout your life.

  After surviving my bombardment with technical terms, you may lack the strength to grasp the meaning of the need for popularity yourself. The need for popularity is the most important reason why people are "nice" to each other, make each other happy, help, want to give gifts, and cooperate to achieve a common goal.

  Your eyes no longer need to become moist with emotion at the word "selflessness," because there is a need for it—and a growing one at that. But you also need not hang your head. Just because you have seen the roots of the "good" does not mean that the "good" suddenly becomes something "bad."

  Presumably, however, the need for popularity is also wrongly structured. You feel popularity pleasure because a person sends you the corresponding signals. Now they reduce these signals to you and give their affection to others, and you suddenly feel painfully thrust into the valley of loneliness. The aggression triggered by this love withdrawal pain can escalate up to violence.

  The need for popularity wants to drive you, with growing loneliness pain, to gain more popularity. And what is that good for? We can defuse this landmine if we construct a need for popularity that produces only popularity pleasure and no pain fields. If kindness brings popularity pleasure, this should be a pleasure we give ourselves without being whipped by loneliness pain.

  We often eat for pleasure and not hunger, which is not so good in that case because it makes us fat—a problem that electronic consciousness does not have.

  Popularity Pleasure (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  When they honor you, recognize you, applaud you, flatter you, smile at you, express their sympathy, give you gifts, and whatever else I have forgotten, you feel security, pride, gratitude—other names for popularity pleasure.

  When, on the need plantation of the need for popularity, the saturation molecules move to the desire molecules and merge with them, a saturation field arises, which is popularity pleasure.

  Popularity Desire (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  How long can you endure without seeing or speaking to anyone? Even your pets are gone. You become restless, feel lonely, become downcast, even depressed, and gradually despair spreads. This happens to you when you let the desire molecules on the need plantation of the popularity need run wild. The desire molecules build a desire field that increasingly torments you with the above feelings until you finally do something about it.

  Touch Pleasure (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  From simple tenderness to sexual climax, there is a more or less continuous increase of touch pleasure. This arises on the need plantation of the mating need, as saturation molecules flow to the desire molecules.

  Touch Desire (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  From a hint of longing for tenderness to burning lust, the torture arsenal of touch desire extends. Its desire molecules grow on the need plantation of the mating need.

  Mov (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  What a "think" is for consciousness, a "mov" is for behavior. A small experiment: tense your arm muscles until the arm trembles. A tremor corresponds to a "mov." It is the atom of behavior. A "think" is produced in one twentieth of a second. A "mov" contracts a specific muscle for one twentieth of a second with a certain force. It consists of a whisper field generated by the mov cells. Each mov cell controls a mov field strength, which it can send to exactly one muscle. If you want a stronger field or a different muscle, you must change the mov cell.

  You might wonder why whisper fields are used here as well, when a simple electric shock is enough to twitch a muscle? Well, maybe the electrical explanation suffices here, but I imagine it is easier to address millions of muscle cells at once with a radio beacon-like whisper field than with a chain reaction of electrical impulses.

  Be that as it may, this does not change the task of the mov. A mov changes the position of your body. This results in changed sensory "thinks" and thus a changed consciousness. This changed consciousness is the key for the next mov, which in turn causes changed sensory "thinks." In this way, you can adapt your behavior in twentieth-of-a-second steps to changes in your body and environment.

  To complicate matters further, you can assume that several movs can occur simultaneously. How else would you explain movements that require multiple muscles at the same time?

  Mov Fields (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  As soon as a mov key field—an element of your consciousness—awakens a mov cell, this cell builds a mov field. The mov field has a fixed whisper field strength and races through the corresponding nerve pathways to "its" muscle. There it addresses all muscle cells. These contract with the force corresponding exactly to the field strength for one twentieth of a second. A movement only occurs when several mov fields in succession ensure that the muscle cells contract further and further.

  Electronic Consciousness

  If you do not have a muscle-packed android, you can also use the elements of your PC or your phone as muscles: mouse pointer movement, keyboard input, camera control (scanning the field of view, see visual "think"), speaker control.

  Movement Key Fields (Last Revision: February 12, 2025)

  Imagine a soccer field full of dormant movement cells. If you want to wake one or more cells and cause them to build a movement field, you cannot just shout wildly. You would wake them all at once, and your body would perform unspeakable movements. You need key fields that address only the desired cells and let the others continue to slumber. Because these key fields are meant to wake movement cells, we call them movement key fields.

  Where do these movement key fields come from? They do not need to be generated anew. They are already there: as your consciousness. The sensory and memory "thinks" as well as the need fields permeate the movement cells. As soon as a movement cell feels addressed by one of these consciousness elements, it builds its movement field and "plays" its muscle for one twentieth of a second.

  Because different consciousness elements can simultaneously address one movement cell each, movements involving several muscles at the same time become possible. However, if movement cells reacted to every consciousness element, there would be wild twitching. There is a simple technical solution for this: movement cells only respond above a certain whisper field strength. Only the "strongest" consciousness elements, those with the highest activation level, have a chance to coax a movement field from a movement cell.

  It may seem to you that this explains a twentieth-of-a-second group twitch of muscles but not a movement sequence, because just because the strongest consciousness elements each "play" the muscles does not mean a reasonable movement results. The "reasonableness," the goal-directedness of movement, is the result of much practice. Practice means repetition. Repetition increases the linkage strength between two memory "thinks."

  Imagine the hundred memory "thinks" of a five-second movement sequence as an outstretched string of beads on your table. Lift one end, and a few beads hang in the air—that corresponds to the memory "thinks" currently in your consciousness. Now hold one end of the bead string with your left hand and run your thumb under the string to the other end. The few beads in the air at any time correspond to those memory "thinks" whose linkage strength is increasing. The linkage strength between "neighboring" memory "thinks" grows larger, but not between those further apart. Each time your thumb passes under the string, as the memory "thinks" of a movement appear one after another in consciousness, the relationship tightens. The memory "thinks" can recall the still inactive memory traces faster. Until the five-second movement flows smoothly.

  But why don’t you "see" this when you "observe" your consciousness during a movement? Probably because movement is mainly generated by chains of tactile "thinks." But you can neither hear nor see tactile "thinks" in your consciousness.

  Also here applies: except for the autonomic nervous system, which keeps basic bodily functions running, movement only occurs if it is valued by the need structure.

  Movement Cells (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  A movement cell can generate a movement field that contracts a specific muscle with a certain strength for one twentieth of a second. The movement cell is like a piano key that makes a certain string sound. But you must install another keyboard above and below the piano for every possible striking strength. If a being has two hundred muscles with a hundred possible striking strengths, then a hundred keyboards with two hundred keys each stack up in front of your piano. That results in about twenty thousand keys—or movement cells. Not a bad starting point for a few sophisticated movement tricks.

  Consciousness (Last Revision: February 15, 1997)

  Sensory "thinks" + Memory "thinks" + Need fields = Consciousness.

  Even if it disappoints you a bit, your consciousness consists largely of sensory impressions, the sensory "thinks." Suppose there is a thinking cycle of 1/20 second. Further, assume that per thinking cycle and sense, one sensory "think" is produced. Then, with 5 senses times 20 cycles, about 100 sensory "thinks" flood into your brain every second.

  Assume further that the whisper field of a sensory "think" can exist, for example, for 2 seconds before collapsing. Then 2 times 100, i.e., 200 sensory "thinks," are simultaneously in your brain. These 200 sensory "thinks" are not packages moved on a conveyor belt for further processing. They permeate each other so that all sensory "thinks" are simultaneously everywhere in the brain.

  At the same time, 200 of these sensory information packets (just a calculation example; you must find the exact numbers in your doctoral thesis) can awaken memory traces in your brain. Now comes the other large part of consciousness. Because 200 sensory "thinks" simultaneously knock on the doors of countless memory traces as key fields, hundreds of memory traces can be stimulated by the key fields to build the whisper field stored in them.

  These memory "thinks" in turn permeate the entire brain, so we roughly estimate that there are already 400 "thinks" in your consciousness. Since memory "thinks" contain their own linkage information, they awaken many more memory traces in a chain reaction.

  But you need not fear: neither will your consciousness explode nor grow larger than the universe. Because each whisper field can only exist for a limited time (see your doctoral thesis) without being newly stimulated, just as many sensory and memory "thinks" collapse as are built up. This keeps your consciousness its magnificent size.

  Your consciousness is as large as the number of simultaneously present "thinks" (sensory or memory "thinks"). Added to this are all the need fields triggered by or reporting themselves through them.

  Think (Last Revision: February 13, 1997)

  The atom of thinking is the "think." Thinks are the whisper fields present at the moment that make up your consciousness. However, you should not imagine thinks as building blocks with which you can assemble "consciousnesses." Thinks do not lie side by side but are "interwoven." They permeate each other so that each think is simultaneously present everywhere in the brain. This allows any think coming from the senses (sensory think) to be quickly assigned a meaning by awakening memory thinks, which in turn permeate the brain and awaken further memory thinks.

  Think Cycle (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  No, I did not first think of the clock rate of a computer. A think cycle is the time span your perception apparatus needs to produce a sensory think. It takes time to simplify millions of impulses into a sensory think. It would be sufficient if each sense organ had its own "sense cycle." The result of such a sense-personal timing would be that an auditory sensory think might enter consciousness every fifth of a second, a visual sensory think every twentieth of a second, and a tactile sensory think only every second. What you would then see would not correspond to what you would hear or feel. Each sense would describe a time-shifted, thus different environment. To eliminate the resulting orientation difficulties, you would probably have to grow an additional brain part. But why, if you can simply wave the baton: all at once!

  The sensory think cycle is probably about one twentieth of a second because a film running at only twenty frames per second begins to flicker. Sounds with up to twenty beats per second you hear as rattling or fluttering. Based on these examples, we recklessly infer from one sense to the others. And since a reaction to a sensory perception preferably occurs just as quickly, we further conclude that a movement also lasts only one twentieth of a second.

  It is somewhat more difficult to answer how quickly a memory can be awakened. Strictly speaking, the question is so difficult that I cannot answer it. You get some hints if you observe how quickly something comes to your mind. If you want to remember something related to your current environment, e.g., your apartment, the relevant memories are often already partly active and you find your glass of milk immediately. If someone then calls you and asks where a certain street you know is, you might need a few seconds to beat the completely inactive memories awake and describe the way.

  If your sensory think cycle is okay, different memory times apparently cause no serious problems. You just wait until you have it.

  Permeate (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  Without the property of whisper fields to permeate, you could throw away your brain. Like water absorbed by a sponge, a whisper field can simultaneously race through all nerve pathways of your memory to awaken a memory from its sleep as a key field. The actual permeation happens now: hundreds or thousands of whisper fields—your entire consciousness—race simultaneously through the sponge of your memory without hindering each other.

  Every second, all whisper fields of your consciousness can tap all fifteen billion cells of your memory several times to store new information and activate known ones. If each whisper field had to leisurely twitch from cell to cell and needed one twentieth of a second for this, this would result in a research excursion of 750 million seconds or almost 24 years. By the time you finally find out that this stuff in front of you is edible, you would have long since starved.

  Inherited Auditory Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Why is an infant not startled by the gentle sound of a voice but very much by a loud noise? Because the memory of harmlessness and threat is already present as inherited memory. At gentle sounds, inherited auditory memories awaken that serve as saturation key fields of the need for popularity. At loud sounds, inherited auditory memories of the need for safety awaken, containing reaction fields with fear. This fear pumps your body full of stimulating substances, so that at very loud music you gradually enter a state of intoxication.

  Possibly, the sound of the voice also affects the need to dominate, where it is classified as either humiliating or submissive.

  Inherited Olfactory Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  These inherited memories probably contain saturation key fields of the need to eat and drink. The smell of fresh water, the scent of fruits. By perfuming yourself, you can use the corresponding inherited olfactory memories to present yourself as a tasty little fruit. That you also find the smell of cooked food interesting may be a non-inherited memory performance.

  Inherited Taste Memory (Last Revision: February 14, 2025)

  These inherited memories let you know that salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami things in your mouth cause the saturation molecules of your need to eat to flow. The cool softness of water will probably please your need to drink.

  Inherited Visual Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  These inherited memories are part of the need for safety when they build fear reaction fields as soon as something moves in the field of vision. When I speak of fear fields, I do not always mean sweat-inducing panic. A hint of fear is enough to fix your attention on the moving object. This hint of fear also fills you with stimulating substances, so you can use movement to pep up your tired existence.

  Inherited visual memories further allow the saturation molecules of the mating need to flow as soon as something suitable appears in your viewfinder. What you respond to does not depend on your gender but on the content of your corresponding inherited visual memories. If they contain images of the same sex, you find the same-sex butt attractive. Homosexuality is therefore not a matter of morality but of inherited visual memories.

  Inherited Sensory Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  This is a collective term for all inherited memories activated by sensory "thinks."

  Inherited Memory (Last Revision: July 30, 1997)

  An inherited memory is a memory (a "memory trace") that has been somehow passed down genetically. Inherited memories are the large playground for developing a need structure. Both "thinks" (need for safety) as well as states of consciousness (need for variety) or need fields (need to flee) can cause them to build reaction fields. These inherited memory contents are already needs here (reacting needs). They are only part of a need in the case of growing needs, where they build saturation key fields that regulate the flow of saturation molecules.

  If the need structure of your newly created being is faulty, you can tinker with the existing inherited memories or invent new ones until you have the errors under control. For example, if you forget to build a kind of need to flee into your being, it may happen that it suffers under the pressure of its growing needs but nevertheless does not move a step to do something about it.

  Inherited Touch Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  These inherited memories contain those touch patterns of the skin that trigger touch pleasure. If mating is not to take place, for example, in the armpit, the touch patterns must "say" quite precisely what they want or when they are ready to build saturation key fields.

  Need to Eat (Last Revision: May 27, 1997)

  The need fields of the need to eat are eating desire through desire molecules and eating pleasure when saturation and desire molecules merge. An interesting question for your doctoral thesis might be whether the feeling of satiety is a third need field of the need to eat, a kind of satiety pleasure. Or is it just tactile sensory "thinks" reporting pressure on the stomach walls? Or is it perhaps part of a reacting need for sleep, where satiety causes tiredness?

  Inherited sensory memories produce their saturation key fields as soon as they are awakened by the appropriate taste, smell, and tactile "thinks." Eating pleasure contains movement key fields that trigger muscle movements such as reaching, putting food in the mouth, chewing, and swallowing.

  Eating Pleasure (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  As you probably suspected, eating pleasure is the name for the saturation fields of the need to eat.

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  Eating Desire (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  These are the desire fields of the need to eat.

  Need to Flee (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Let us summarize all unpleasant whisper fields—whether sensory "thinks," boredom, fear, or whatever else possible—as pain. When pain appears in consciousness, the inherited memories of the need to flee awaken and build a reaction field intended to trigger flight movements.

  Need for Security (Last Revision: January 7, 2025)

  Perhaps the need for popularity is rather a need for security. Tactile "thinks" are simpler in structure than visual "thinks." It should therefore be easier to develop a need based on tactile "thinks" than on the more complex visual "thinks": defining a smile with visual "thinks" is much more difficult than defining tenderness with tactile "thinks."

  The need for security is a growing need that torments us with feelings of loss, loneliness, and sadness when we delay its satisfaction. But why do we also find a smile satisfying when the inherited memories of the need for security only demand tactile "thinks"? This must be because from birth, satisfying tactile "thinks" were accompanied by a smile from the caregivers. The linkage between smiling and tenderness is so strong that smiling is almost like stroking and can therefore also have a satisfying effect.

  In the same way, disapproving, cold, rejecting behaviors have probably gained their effectiveness: the pain of deprivation of tenderness has become linked with these behaviors, so that a spiteful facial expression alone is enough to awaken a painful feeling of loss. Like all pain, these also generate aggression, which can escalate to suicide and rampage.

  Physical abuse strengthens the link between disapproval and pain because painful tactile "thinks" are added to the deprivation pain. A rejecting attitude then acts, in terms of linkage, like a slap in the face. A fertile ground for violent excesses.

  Security Bubble (Last Revision: February 11, 2025)

  Why do reasonable arguments often have no effect? Because reason does not exist. Or how would you construct reason with inherited memories? Inherited memories reward you with pleasures of eating, drinking, touch, domination, and so on. They warn you with fear and pain of dangers. What would a pleasure of reason effective for all reasonableness look like?

  "But if I want to build a bridge, it is reasonable to orient myself to the laws of statics," you object. In which inherited memory are the laws of statics? And in which one is the construction manual for a bridge? Your bridge-building is, from the outside, an act of reason. But in your head, it is the result of a costly evaluation and linkage performance based on the evaluation of simple inherited memories.

  You have taken on the effort to understand the mathematics of statics, painstakingly created by others, by first indulging in the pleasures of security and domination that await you upon completion of the building, because you have stored stories telling you how others fared who successfully created impressive structures.

  Had the pain of cramming been only one percent stronger than the promise of success, you would probably have been found on the construction site with a pick and shovel rather than with blueprints. Your inherited memories guide you to success. No trace of reason.

  But not all everyday things are richly associated with pleasure. In principle, your day should run painlessly and pleasantly. Well-established routines are best suited for this. Everything that disturbs these routines is unpleasant, thus painful, and must be avoided or fought with aggression.

  If someone proposes a reasonable argument to you to change your daily routine or even something in your life, trouble threatens. Because every change is associated with the painful solving of problems until smoothness in the daily routine is restored.

  A reasonable argument is not checked by the need structure for its inherited-memory-based reasonableness but for its pain, fear, or pleasure content. If the check results in a gain in pleasure: bring on the change! If pain and/or fear threaten: quickly destroy what promises pain.

  A painless daily routine surrounds us like a fruit bubble of security. Everything that threatens this security bubble is the devil's work and can sometimes be fought with utmost cruelty.

  The security bubble also covers the community, where individuals assure each other of mutual belonging with rituals whose absurdity or cruelty plays no role as long as they maintain a dam against overwhelming fears.

  A security bubble bursts only when stronger pleasures lure or new fear-inducing and pain-causing circumstances arise that expose the usual behavior as ineffective or less (pleasure) promising.

  Feeling Fields (Last Revision: February 13, 1997)

  Certain arrangements of protein and perhaps other molecules produce what you know as feeling. This whispering of molecules is called feeling fields or, somewhat amusingly, whisper fields.

  Cruelty (Last Revision: February 4, 2025)

  The goal of Whisper Field Theory is to remove cruelty from the genome. From a whisper field perspective, cruelty arises with the mechanical precision of a clockwork. The need to dominate rewards us with the pleasure of domination when we humiliate others. The humiliated experience humiliation pain. Humiliation pain generates aggression. As long as the humiliated fear the consequences of rebellion, they swallow the aggression. Fear acts as a wall behind which aggression accumulates. When this reservoir becomes large enough, the fear wall breaks and lets the aggression flow into movement. This movement brings, on the one hand, long-missed pleasure of domination when one can humiliate back, and on the other hand, relief from humiliation pain. Relief and pleasure add up to a euphoria that, as I once read, can even lead to an orgasm while you dismember your victim with a machete.

  Often, the rulers are clever enough to anticipate a dam break of aggression. They therefore continuously create scapegoats who can be sacrificed to give the humiliated a little pleasure of domination, which reduces the pressure behind the dam from the red zone. If an unavoidable dam break still looms, an enemy image is built up that can only be destroyed by war. Those with a need to dominate can also stage wars when their fear of death is so great that they want to flee into the supposed immortality of history.

  The unfortunate thing about this mechanism is that it is inevitable. Morality and psychology can do nothing about it. The clockwork of the genome is pure physics. So the only help is to delete the instructions for building the inherited memories of the need to dominate from the genome. For this, we must be willing to give up our pleasure of domination. Perhaps our fear of the never-ending slaughter that the need to dominate imposes on us as a form of eternal damnation will motivate us.

  Need to Dominate (Last Revision: February 4, 2025)

  Whoever beats all competition survives. A neat logic of natural need development. The "will to power" can also be described as a need. And this need to dominate need not be more complicated than the need for popularity. I know, you think I am a terrible simplifier of complex social phenomena. But behavior can develop in many layers, although it starts from comparatively simple needs. Why? Because you have enough space in your brain to learn something new. You learn not only new colors and shapes, sounds and smells, but also new sequences of muscle stimuli. These behavioral atoms (see "Mov") are triggered by movement key fields contained in the "thinks." Almost infinitely many states of consciousness allow for an almost infinitely diverse behavior.

  So how is this comparatively simple need to dominate structured? Would you guess it is a growing or a reacting need? When you win against others, you experience something like feelings of triumph or at least satisfaction. These feelings we could summarize as pleasure of domination. If you cannot win anywhere, you feel powerless and humiliated, and your desire to be "on top" grows to be freed from the growing humiliation pain: the desire to dominate. Thus we have described the two parts of the need plantation of the growing need to dominate.

  The inherited sensory memories probably react to simple signs of respect: lowered head, slumped shoulders, quiet voice, and whatever else comes to your mind. The behavior triggered by the movement key fields can range from threatening gestures like staring stiffly, straightening up, puffing out the chest to attempts to establish a respectful attitude by grabbing and hitting.

  Have you ever wondered why people come together to do something good only to quarrel shortly afterward and fight in factions?

  When you perceive stories through films, books, narratives, reports, you might confuse them with your own experience. This allows you to empathize with what the people in the story experience. That is how empathy works.

  If you learn of real suffering animals or people, stories of rescued ones and their gratitude awaken in you, which in turn awakens popularity pleasure and moves you to rescue to get more of it. So far, so good.

  Rescuers then come together and begin their project full of joyful expectation of abundant popularity pleasure. Now the project must be organized. There are many possibilities. One stands out and gains attention, which gives him popularity pleasure and lets him suspect that there is also pleasure of domination to be harvested when he sees all the nodding heads that his words move.

  You also notice how one physically moves upward like a drop of oil while you stand insignificantly on the sidelines. At the same time, his concept awakens memories in you of concepts that have failed. If the whole project fails, there is no pleasure, only the pain of futile effort. Knowing that you threaten his emerging power, you dare to point out the weaknesses of his concept in a friendly way. He already sees himself falling from the pedestal when your criticism is accepted and feels humiliation pain. The emerging aggression moves him to make a joke and ridicule your criticism. Many find it funny and remain loyal to him. Others feel fear fields at the prospect of failure and join you hoping for something more pleasurable. That he makes you a laughingstock also causes humiliation pain in you.

  We now have two figures, both tormented by humiliation pain, which generates aggression. The prospect of popularity pleasure recedes. A grim struggle for pleasure of domination and avoidance of humiliation pain breaks out. And now we have factions that invest 80 percent of their energy in fighting each other instead of rescuing the suffering.

  The mechanism is so simple it makes you want to scream. And so sad.

  Pleasure of Domination (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  The saturation fields of the need to dominate.

  Desire to Dominate (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  The desire fields of the need to dominate.

  Auditory Think (Last Revision: January 17, 2025)

  An auditory think is the umbrella term for auditory sensory thinks and auditory memory thinks.

  Electronic Consciousness: Proposal for Auditory Think:

  The input signal at the microphone is divided every twentieth of a second by an analysis program into 10 frequencies. For each frequency, the volume in decibels is also determined. An auditory think then looks like this:

  Frequency: 32 Hz, dB: 69.914

  Frequency: 63 Hz, dB: 60.734

  Frequency: 125 Hz, dB: 59.584

  Frequency: 250 Hz, dB: 55.411

  Frequency: 500 Hz, dB: 47.850

  Frequency: 1000 Hz, dB: 52.022

  Frequency: 2000 Hz, dB: 56.137

  Frequency: 4000 Hz, dB: 45.061

  Frequency: 8000 Hz, dB: 35.526

  Frequency: 16000 Hz, dB: 46.594

  At what deviation an auditory think may be confused with another must be determined experimentally.

  Auditory Sensory Think (Last Revision: May 16, 1997)

  If you take a device that displays sound as a line, you often see a wild zigzag pattern. And you think that at every spike the tone, the sound, the noise must change. Thus, each spike would be an "auditory atom," and your brain would make an auditory sensory think out of it.

  Do you know what the shortest tone you can still hear is? Well, I don’t either, but let’s assume for calculation that it is 1/10,000 of a second long. That would mean 10,000 auditory thinks versus 20 visual sensory thinks per second. How would your consciousness of the world be if you could hear that well? Perhaps you would drown in auditory sensory thinks and completely lose orientation.

  An auditory sensory think, the smallest unit of hearing, is already quite a summary of individual tones or spikes, so you need not be afraid. If we assume you produce 20 auditory thinks per second, then an auditory think at 10,000 second tones consists of 500 tones.

  Use your fingernails to "illustrate" how this works. First, tap with your left index fingernail on something hard so that you clearly hear the impact. Then do the same with your right index fingernail. Two separate sounds. Now repeat the game and gradually shorten the interval between the taps until both fall within one twentieth of a second. You don’t need a stopwatch. You have succeeded when the two sounds merge into one.

  While millions of optic nerves are spatially summarized into a coarse color spot pattern to produce a visual sensory think, your double-nail sound forms a temporal summary of diverse tone patterns into an auditory sensory think.

  Although you may feel silly by now, you can continue tapping for a while. You will notice that, depending on skill, it remains a sound more or less often but not always the same. If you want, you can even coax a little melody from your nail concert.

  Within the "auditory think summary," impact strength and temporal interval vary; perhaps it also matters which part of the nail strikes which part of the surface, or how hard the nail is, or how long.

  From this banal example, you may recognize that each auditory sensory think is a small "sound personality" made up of sometimes hundreds of partial tones. You are therefore by no means limited to the few thousand audible frequencies but can combine them so that an enormous number of sounds arises, helping you to find your way in the world.

  Auditory Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  When an auditory think is stored with linkage information, it becomes an auditory memory (see Memory Think).

  Auditory Memory Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  An auditory think that has entered consciousness by awakening an auditory memory.

  Complexity (Last Revision: January 23, 2025)

  Even if you understand how the thinks are calculated, it might be somewhat difficult to imagine how complex thoughts arise from these atoms of thinking. Why does someone speaking to you trigger something inside you? It is just formatted air that quickly fades away and yet can have such an effect that you might kill someone. If at your workplace they say, "You are useless," that can trigger a storm of feelings.

  Let us try to unravel this storm of feelings in terms of whisper fields. You sit down and explore which feelings move you. There is a tightness mixed with anger. The word "useless" connects with visual memories of people who were labeled accordingly and whom you have stored from movies, books, and your own observations. Even though not all are starving, they are images of misery. The images of your life mix with the images of misery. Like a string of pearls, tactile memories of hunger (deprivation) and visual memories associated with humiliation pain (contempt) are awakened.

  Your consciousness fills with memory thinks that remind you of pain. Further tactile memories of experienced pain and the fear stored with it awaken. Fear and pain generate aggression, which awakens movement memories of flight or fight. The movement memory thinks awaken visual memories that build into a scene where a threat is fought with a fist punch. The fist punch scene in turn awakens images of police arresting violent offenders, which is associated with fear and prevents the constellation in consciousness from condensing into a fist punch.

  A back and forth leaves you standing as if paralyzed. Your consciousness is now the key to scenes that can be confused with your state. It awakens scenes you have experienced yourself or observed: responding angrily, calmly justifying yourself, giving in and turning away.

  Perhaps you yourself have weakly activated (unconsciously) the feeling that your work here does not achieve much and is not appreciated due to a series of humiliations. Then this feeling becomes strongly active and you walk away. The distance from the humiliating situation prevents the emotional flow from further heating up. You can now try to calm it down, as is usual in films, with a well-filled glass of schnapps.

  If you are lucky, memories awaken in you of scenes that confuse your situation with observed ones in which people found a way out of a painful dead end by dedicating themselves to something new. Completely without schnapps.

  This is also the reason why perceiving alternative lives and viewpoints in literature and science is valuable.

  For once, do not let yourself be distracted by your screen and observe your flight of thoughts. You still have to buy bread for the barbecue in the evening. You see yourself in the store in front of the bread shelf. The last barbecue evening appears. How the grilled food was burnt. How some found it funny and others not at all. Tense atmosphere. Someone gets something from take-away to save the evening. But that did not please some. Hopefully, it will not be like that again today.

  Connections form scenes. Scenes link together into stories. Viewed this way, our life consists of stories. This also applies to research. Our consciousness does not sort molecules. It lets them dance until they connect into something that seems valuable to us.

  But this is not a fundamental solution to your problem. Because your need to dominate still seduces you with feelings of triumph to unsympathetic behavior or drives you with humiliation pain.

  So how about simply deleting your need to dominate? With one stroke, up and down in this human hustle would become meaningless. You could watch in amazement how desperately the power-hungry collect status symbols, titles, positions, and money to receive signs of respect. You, on the other hand, would be free to devote yourself to the unexplored, to shudder at the sight of an infinite universe, and to satisfy your curiosity with tender insistence to create small oases of security for yourself and all who appreciate it with the knowledge gained.

  During your lifetime, this will hardly be possible, but you can program an electronic consciousness accordingly as a substitute to create a blueprint for a peaceful human species.

  Intelligence (Last Revision: February 12, 2025)

  Amid all the memory chatter, you no longer see the forest for the trees. How does intelligence arise in such a simple system? Quite simply: through confusion. Even if you haven’t seen a pencil for a long time, let’s try with that. You can recognize almost any pencil, as long as it’s not too unusually designed. That’s actually astonishing. If your memory of a pencil were stored 100 percent exactly, you couldn’t do that. Every foreign pencil has a slight variation. Maybe it has a different color. The lighting is different, so highlights and shadows are very different from your memory. It may be dull. With an eraser on the other end. All these differences would be enough reason to interpret this new pencil as an unknown object if your recognition system required exact matching. But your memory is so fuzzy that you can confuse most pencils with your memory.

  Now transfer this simple recognition process to something more complex. How does your intelligence work when suddenly water leaks from your coffee machine? Full of panic that you must survive the day without coffee, you search your memories until something running pushes into your consciousness. Your car lost oil. The sink drain dripped. The water supply of your washing machine leaked and flooded half the apartment. Something like that. By confusing the leaking coffee machine with such a memory, you come to the intelligent conclusion that a hose in the coffee machine is torn or has a hole. You take the coffee machine to service, and after repair, you learn that the water tank had a crack and only that had to be replaced. Something you could have done yourself much more cheaply. Your intelligence, although superior to that of a dog, fooled you.

  How could this happen? If you once had an aquarium that dripped from a cracked corner, you might have come up with the idea to check the tank. Intelligence works by confusing a new problem with an old problem and then trying to apply the old solution to the new problem. But we can only confuse with old problems that we have stored. The aquarium just wasn’t among them. The more possibilities for confusion we have, the smarter we become. So the coffee machine experience can lead you next time a device malfunctions to consider various causes and, if you find none, to search for them (asking acquaintances, internet research).

  It is obvious that we often fall flat on our faces when solving problems by confusing. Yet we become smarter because, lying on our faces, we learn to rethink the problem. If you know how to extinguish a campfire with water and then try to extinguish a burning frying pan filled with oil with a splash of water, you spread the burning oil over half the kitchen. The new problem is thus thought anew: How do I extinguish a burning frying pan? This formulation opens the horizon to confusions regarding fire extinguishing. How do I fight an oil fire? In this somewhat tedious way, we fumble from solution to solution, which, thanks to sharing solutions through language (stories), still progresses fairly quickly.

  Intelligence is relative. The larger your consciousness, the more intelligent potential you have. However, this does not mean that you are generally more intelligent. You probably have no idea about pastry making. So imagine you had to make a fine wedding cake. When you then see a trained person conjure up a wonderful wedding cake before your eyes with fairy-like ease, you rightly feel as dumb as a crumb. You do have the potential, with your above-average large consciousness, to learn many things others can do. But you haven’t learned them and thus have nothing to confuse.

  If you look at objects as a small exercise during your day—a coffee cup, a light switch, a hair clip, a tram rail, etc.—you will notice that you would fail with most objects if you had to build them. And although your consciousness is larger than that of a dog, in almost all cases you are not more intelligent than the dog. Perhaps this perspective awakens a certain awe for the complex structure of our civilization, which only works through the interlocking of tiny competencies of relatively dumb existences. If this civilization now also strove for "well-being for all" instead of profit maximization, paradise would be within reach. The purpose of Whisper Field Theory is to show a way how this can become possible.

  Conclusion: Intelligence does not need higher mathematics but the fuzziness of perception. Intelligence is not as intelligent as we think, but it is the only thing we have.

  Boredom (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Reaction field of the need for variety.

  Need to Mate (Last Revision: May 27, 1997)

  Why don’t you mate with your refrigerator? Well, if you made the inherited visual memories you respond to a bit more angular, the inherited tactile memories a bit cooler, and the inherited olfactory memories more tuned to the scent of steaming ice, something might happen between you and your fridge. The goal of your need to mate must be held quite precisely in your inherited sensory memories to guarantee the survival of your species. A slight shift in the desired sensory impressions and you are attracted to the same sex; a stronger shift and you are attracted to refrigerators.

  The inherited sensory memories awaken and build their saturation key fields. These allow the saturation molecules of your mating need plantation to flow to the desire molecules, creating saturation fields. The saturation fields, in turn, act as movement key fields on the movement cells. The desire fields consist of touch desires; the saturation fields consist of touch pleasures, which can increase through avalanche-like flow of saturation molecules up to orgasm. The stimulated behavior includes grasping, enclosing, pushing, and ejecting glandular fluids.

  Reacting Need (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  The difference between a reacting and a growing need is the need plantation. The reacting need has only inherited memories that assign meaning to certain thinks, need fields, or other consciousness properties by generating a reaction field. It adapts to the situation in the brain, i.e., consciousness, becoming stronger or weaker depending on whether and how it is addressed. Although it can vary in strength, it does not grow by itself. It reacts, so to speak, on demand. The varying strength results from each inherited memory containing its own whisper field strength. Take 10 inherited memories, and you can create a scale from 1 to 10. Example: need for safety.

  Reaction Fields (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Reacting needs do not need to grow. They only need to react when the "consciousness situation" requires it. If you want to create a need structure, you can use any inherited memories that "observe" the consciousness events and awaken as soon as their reaction conditions, the triggering key fields, are met. The awakening of inherited memories consists of building a reaction field, which becomes part of consciousness. Reaction fields do not contain sensory information like memory thinks. They contain "feelings," want to trigger behavior or amplify or dampen certain consciousness contents.

  Certainly, the inherited memories belonging to growing needs also "react" and thus build reaction fields. Let us nevertheless call these special reaction fields saturation key fields to emphasize the close relationship between the need plantation and the inherited memories of a growing need.

  Olfactory Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Collective term for olfactory sensory thinks and olfactory memorys.

  Olfactory Sensory Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Similar to the spot pattern of a visual sensory think, the scent pattern of an olfactory think must be composed. The strength and type of scents sensed within one twentieth of a second form the "scent image."

  Olfactory Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  An olfactory sensory think supplemented with linkage information is stored in memory as an olfactory memory.

  Olfactory Memory Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  A think that arises by awakening an olfactory memory.

  Saturation Fields (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Saturation fields arise when saturation molecules combine with desire molecules on a need plantation. Saturation fields are the rewards that growing needs hold ready for you when you do what they demand. See, for example, popularity pleasure.

  Saturation Molecules (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  They grow on a part of the need plantation of a growing need. They wait for the saturation key fields as a signal to flow over to the desire molecules and build saturation fields.

  Saturation Key Fields (Last Revision: February 12, 2025)

  For growing needs: As soon as inherited sensory memories are addressed by thinks (e.g., when you are smiled at or stroked), they build saturation key fields that initiate the flow of saturation molecules (you experience popularity pleasure or security pleasure).

  Key Fields (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Whisper fields that cause whisper molecules to build the whisper field contained in the molecules are called key fields. Thus, thinks serve as key fields for memories, thinks and need fields serve as key fields for movements and reacting needs. Whisper fields are also key fields when they trigger chemical processes: they cause saturation molecules to flow and probably also cause glands to secrete hormones.

  Taste Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Collective term for taste sensory thinks and taste memory thinks.

  Taste Sensory Think (Last Revision: February 5, 2025)

  Strictly speaking, the taste sensory think consists only of salty-sweet-sour-bitter-umami information. The pattern formation for hot and cold, soft or hard of an object in your mouth is the responsibility of tactile sensory thinks. A taste sensory pattern consists of the presence of the five taste directions and their intensity. Presumably, as with other senses, a taste sensory think is produced every twentieth of a second.

  Taste Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  A taste sensory think supplemented with linkage information is stored in memory as a taste memory.

  Taste Memory Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  An activated taste memory becomes a taste memory think and part of consciousness.

  Visual Think (Last Revision: January 20, 2025)

  A visual think is the umbrella term for visual sensory thinks and visual memory thinks.

  Electronic Consciousness:

  A visual think could be structured like a chessboard. That would be 64 color spots, each assigned a unique average value from the RGB color space:

  Field a1: Red 120, Green 150, Blue 80

  Field b1: R 135, G 170, B 90

  Field c1: R 100, G 130, B 60

  etc.

  With this coarse chessboard grid, detailed vision seems impossible. However, the 2nd visual think could be produced from a quarter of the 1st visual think. The original 16 fields of the 1st visual think are thus resolved into 64 fields, providing 4 times more detail. The 3rd visual think could concentrate on 1 field of the 1st visual think, giving 64 times more detail. With the 4th visual think, a fraction of the 3rd visual think can be rasterized again. This process can continue up to the limit of camera resolution.

  Because 20 visual thinks are produced per second, many detailed views of an overall image arise in a short time. This creates the illusion that we always see everything clearly, although only a small section is sharp at a time and the rest remains blurred.

  In this way, you do not need complicated algorithms to recognize structures in an image. There is a color spot pattern that resembles an animal. A visual think of the tail. Of the fur. Of the ear. The snout. And suddenly it is a dog. Thanks to the fuzziness of your dog memories (see Intelligence), you recognize the dog even if you have never seen it before.

  If saving the world with the help of Whisper Field Theory seems too tedious, you can still commercialize this principle of optical perception and become a billionaire.

  Visual Sensory Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Do you have a flash camera? Then sit with it in a pitch-dark room. Look in a direction where you suspect objects. Keep your eyelids open and bravely press the flash trigger. Wait, don’t think! Those were not the empty beer bottles of such-and-such brand or the jam jars filled by your aunt with homemade jam with the expiration date of the day before yesterday. You should only pay attention to what you actually see and not include the resulting flood of memory thinks.

  So again. What do you see? You see a pattern of spots. From the spots, you can only determine the position, shape, color, and maybe brightness. Of course, there was a dark brown spot that you know was the stack of beer bottles. And the dark red spot of the jam jars with the white spots of the labels. Encountering this spot pattern on a canvas, you would recognize nothing. You could hardly resist the impression that the art here still needs development. But that is all you see.

  Save your protests; we are not finished with our experiment. Now concentrate your gaze where you saw the dark red jam spot. Flash! If you did it right, the jam spot dissolved into several sub-spots. Concentrate on one sub-spot. Flash! The glossy spot of the lid foil, the rubber band stripe spot, the glass curvature reflection spot, numerous jam structure spots, the white label spot with blue line spots on it. Look at the label. Flash! Around it a monotonous mush, a distinct label rectangle spot, some groups of line spots. You can now turn to a group of line spots and may need one or two more flashes until you can decipher "strawberries."

  If each flash delivered you a visual think, then you have managed with a handful of visual thinks to go from a rough overview to a small, fine inscription. If you apply the spot grid available to you to a detail, you can resolve it damn sharply. Since you move from overview to detail in a few twentieths of a second each time, you do not notice that your vision consists of spot patterns.

  A visual think is a spot pattern, which is also stored as such. Thanks to this imperfect accuracy, you can recognize a collection of dark red spots with white spots as jam jars anywhere in the world without having had to form an abstraction. The fuzziness of a think produces a natural abstraction that helps you behave similarly in similar situations with similar success.

  Visual Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  A visual sensory think stored with linkage information is called a visual memory.

  Visual Memory Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  An activated visual memory becomes a visual memory think and part of consciousness.

  Need for Safety (Last Revision: February 4, 2025)

  The inherited memories of the need for safety contain fear. For every level of pain that comes into your consciousness as sensory thinks, there is a level of fear. With each stronger pain, a different inherited memory awakens and permeates your consciousness with its correspondingly stronger fear field.

  The need for safety becomes stronger because the pain or impending pain becomes stronger and not because it grows by itself. It is thus a reacting need. The fear fields of the inherited sensory memories are themselves movement key fields for behavior. Or simply: fear is coupled with inherited behavior. If the hand feels pain, the arm jerks back. Whether more complicated behaviors, such as destroying the fear-causing object or fleeing, are also and to what extent stimulated by the fear fields of the inherited sensory memories would be an interesting topic for your doctoral thesis.

  Thanks to—or in this case better said, despite—our ability to build complex linkages, we manage to produce fear fields through any nonsense. While our childish curiosity happily lets us stumble into various pains, we generalize from this a fear of the unknown, the foreign, instead of learning to explore the foreign with more caution.

  This is due to a serious error in our need structure, namely that our fear fields are too strong. Fear is a very strong pain that can cause lava-like rage. If we reduced the maximum field strength of fear to 20 percent, we could deal with the unfamiliar much more relaxedly without wanting to bomb it or put it into a concentration camp immediately.

  Sensory Think (Last Revision: February 22, 1997)

  Thinks that enter consciousness from the senses are called sensory thinks.

  What kind of information do your sense organs provide? Certainly, images, sounds, touches, etc. But how large is a "delivery unit"? To produce a sensory think, you only need a fraction of a second. With a single such sensory think, you would neither be able to see a landscape nor hear a melody. Close your eyes, then open and close them as fast as you can. What you can see this way are already three, four, or five visual sensory thinks. So these are small perception packages produced by your senses at a fraction-of-a-second pace. Assume each of your five senses delivers 20 sensory thinks per second, then you receive a total of 100 thinks in that second. The sensory thinks of the individual senses are called visual sensory think, auditory sensory think, tactile sensory think, taste sensory think, and olfactory sensory think.

  Sensory Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Sensory thinks stored with linkage information are sensory memories.

  Memory (Last Revision: February 14, 2025)

  As you have probably noticed, your consciousness does not consist only of sensory thinks. No matter how much information the sense organs provide, a similar amount comes from your memory. Each sensory think awakens a matching memory in your brain or is itself stored as a memory if no matching memory is found to awaken and the inherited memories have valued it sufficiently.

  You can imagine storing as whisper fields running through a nerve fiber, meeting a nerve cell, and aligning protein molecules there so that the molecules can reproduce exactly this whisper field once stimulated. But what is stored? Of course, the sensory think. Additionally, the linkage information is stored. A think is permeated by other thinks and need fields. Together they form what you may call consciousness.

  When a think is stored, the information about which other thinks and need fields were simultaneously present and with what activation level flows into the memory. When you now activate this memory, its whisper field races through the entire memory and awakens all memories and need fields that were once simultaneously active. By awakening a single memory, you can thus revive part of a previous consciousness.

  Memory Think (Last Revision: February 5, 2025)

  Every novel sensory think is stored in memory together with linkage information as a memory. Thinks that enter consciousness by activation of memories are memory thinks. There are auditory memory thinks, olfactory memory thinks, taste memory thinks, visual memory thinks, and tactile memory thinks. The difference from sensory thinks is that sensory thinks contain no linkage information because they have just been freshly produced.

  Tactile Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Collective term for tactile sensory thinks and tactile memory thinks.

  Tactile Sensory Think (Last Revision: February 12, 2025)

  Analogous to the visual sensory think, your brain builds a "tactile image" every twentieth of a second from the information of the skin sensory nerves and the deeper sensory nerves. This "tactile image" consists of warmth, hardness, and pressure intensity.

  Electronic Consciousness:

  If you do not have an android with pressure-sensitive skin, you can use a graphics tablet to signal your electronic consciousness whether you find something positive or negative:

  1 to 50% of maximum pressure = positive

  51 to 100% of maximum pressure = negative

  You can also start with a mobile phone as a sensory organ. The camera receives visual thinks, the microphone auditory thinks, and the speaker as well as the camera respond to movement thinks. You will probably have to outsource the complex computations to a remote computer. The charm of this mini-solution: you can walk around anywhere with your electronic consciousness and communicate with it, so it gets better hour by hour. You just have to replace tactile thinks with words like "praise" for positive and "blame" for negative.

  Tactile Memory (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  A tactile sensory think supplemented with linkage information is stored in memory as a tactile memory.

  Tactile Memory Think (Last Revision: July 31, 1997)

  Awaken a tactile memory, and it becomes a tactile memory think and part of your consciousness.

  Thirst Need (Last Edited: April 9, 1997)

  As you know, this is a growing need. On its need plantation, desire molecules grow, whose desire fields are known to you as thirst cravings. The hereditary sense storages awaken with tactile, taste, and smell sense-thoughts that arise during drinking. Subsequently, the saturation molecules flow over to the desire molecules, thereby creating the saturation fields of drinking pleasure. Some saturation fields already arise when storage-thoughts of drinking, memories of drinking, appear in consciousness. Although this memory is by far not as strong as the sensual experience of drinking, it is enough to create a "preview" of drinking pleasure within you. This either stimulates the growth of the desire and saturation molecules or causes the existing ones to strengthen their fields, which could certainly be a subject of investigation for your doctoral thesis. In any case, a need becomes more clearly perceptible when you awaken the saturation storages of its saturation. It intensifies even more when the possibility of saturation is within "reach," i.e., when a surge of sense-thoughts awakens a surge of storage-thoughts related to this need. The need conquers an increasingly larger share of your consciousness, and you accordingly engage more with its satisfaction. To finally prompt you to act, behaviors such as reaching, sucking, and swallowing are stimulated.

  Drinking Pleasure (Last Edited: July 31, 1997)

  Taste, tactile, and smell sense-thoughts organize a sensory-thought concert that awakens the hereditary storages of the thirst need, so that they build a saturation key field, which drives the saturation molecules toward the desire molecules, allowing you to experience the pleasure of drinking.

  Thirst Craving (Last Edited: July 31, 1997)

  Thirst

  Behavior (Last Edited: May 27, 1997)

  How does behavior happen? How is it possible that your body moves? Yes, yes, a few electrical impulses tickle the muscles, and that’s it. Obvious answers to inconspicuous questions form a reliable method to prevent further insights. I don’t know what electricity is doing in the nerve pathways. Maybe it’s a side effect or even a component of the whisper fields, the part for which measuring devices already exist. Let’s just let the electricity crackle along and consider how behavior works and how it could be coupled with consciousness.

  Wake up in your memory the storages of a grand piano. A beautiful, large, black, fully resonant thing. Got it? Now replace the piano strings with muscles. All the muscles of your body now lie lengthwise inside the belly of the piano. When you press a key, a muscle twitches; if you play a chord, a whole bunch of muscles twitch. Now build the muscles back into your body but keep the connection to the piano keyboard. Wake up some quirky figure in your memory and let it clatter around on the keyboard. You lie on the floor in wild convulsions, and when the quirky figure hits the keys hard, ligaments tear and bones break. You may heal, get up, and angrily punch the quirky figure.

  Now take the piano keyboard, squeeze it together, and place it inside your brain. By squeezing, the keyboard transforms into nerve cells. Since these nerve cells are responsible for your movements, you can safely call them movement cells. But how do you address the movement cells? “Hello, Your Highness, would you mind raising the arm? I want to scratch my head.” If the movement cells don’t listen to you, nothing moves. Luckily, they have neither their own will nor moods. They simply wait until those whisper fields appear in your consciousness that they feel addressed by.

  Similar to the storage cells, the molecule contained in the movement cell reacts to a key field in consciousness. This molecule in turn creates a whisper field, which you may call a movement field, that rushes through the nerve pathways to “its” muscle and contracts it for about 1/20th of a second. This twitch is the shortest possible behavior, the atom of behavior. Fittingly, you call it a “movement.” Any number of movement cells can be addressed simultaneously, so very complex behavioral sequences are possible.

  If you raise your arm with one muscle for two seconds, you need 40 movements. If you use two muscles, that’s 80 movements. If you also scratch your head with five finger muscles, you have burned through 280 movements in two seconds. The movement cells as the “keyboard of your behavior” allow you precise and fast reactions. The only question is: which quirky figure is clattering on it? Or better: how is it being played?

  Behavior results from a cycle. Each cycle produces one movement per muscle involved in the behavior. A cycle lasts only 1/20th of a second. Let’s consider such a cycle. Your consciousness consists of whisper fields: need fields, sense-thoughts, storage-thoughts, and those we have not yet discovered. These whisper fields can be key fields for the whisper molecules in the movement cells.

  A whisper field of consciousness now activates the whisper molecule of a movement cell. The whisper molecule builds its movement field, which rushes to “its” muscle and triggers a movement there. This movement generates sense-thoughts. Usually, it will be a tactile sense-thought. Often, a visual sense-thought is added. Other sense-thoughts are probably generated less frequently. However, a movement can produce at most one thought per sense during its 1/20th second of action.

  The new sense-thoughts awaken need fields or storage cells and thus change consciousness. The other thoughts of consciousness are also one thought cycle ahead, so your consciousness changes even more. This changed consciousness again contains a new set of movement key fields, so the next movement fields can arise and race to their muscles.

  Your consciousness can stop behavior after each movement or continue. Thanks to this cycle, you can constantly correct yourself so that you don’t miss your target.

  If you want to clearly experience this correcting, try the following experiment: Stand on one leg. Stretch the other leg backward at a 45-degree angle without bending it. Stand for a while until you find a secure balance. Now close your eyes so that no visual sense-thoughts of your surroundings appear in your consciousness. You are now forced to maintain your balance based on your tactile sense-thoughts. Soon you begin to sway and would actually have to use the other leg to avoid falling. Before you do this, open your eyes. Immediately, visual sense-thoughts flood your consciousness, and the movement cells receive the right combination of movement key fields to restore your balance.

  But how do such “right combinations of movement key fields” come about? Your first behavior is probably triggered by need fields and hereditary storages that activate movements as key fields: smiling, sucking, swallowing, grasping, flinching from pain, etc. The vast majority of your behavior, however, you learn by having your needs tell you what is good and what is not. This “telling” is by no means a mysterious process, where a need speaks in flowing robes and a long beard from a misty forest. Rather, it is a simple physical event in which need fields strengthen sense-thoughts so that they are stored.

  Through linkage information, sensory storages arise, connected like a chain. If you awaken one link in the chain, the others awaken one after another. And since each sense-thought can trigger a movement, the storage chain simultaneously produces a piece of behavior.

  Linkage Information (Last Edited: February 13, 1997)

  Linkage key + Linkage strength = Linkage information.

  Linkage Key (Last Edited: January 20, 2025)

  While a thought is being stored, all other thoughts interfere with the storage process. A part of every other thought is stored along with it. This co-stored information is the linkage key. With this key, a younger storage can activate an older one, but an older one cannot activate a younger one. The older storage contains a different linkage key that fits storages of the same or older age. If this were not the case, you could say a sentence just as easily forwards as backwards.

  This storage method establishes a direction of experience, without which you could rewind and fast-forward your experiences like a film. The storages are connected like the links of a chain and thus form experiential contexts. This chain is just a metaphor. The older storages to which the linkage key fits do not always lie neatly next to the younger ones—perhaps never. Therefore, a linkage key must also be able to act across the brain.

  Imagine that the whisper field of an activated storage simultaneously races through all nerve pathways and is perhaps present almost simultaneously in every nerve cell for about a second (or however wide the temporal span of your consciousness is). Then the key is simultaneously inserted into billions of locks, and only the storages to which it fits become active and now fill all nerve pathways and cells with their whisper fields.

  Although, for example, your apartment has already created thousands of storages inside you, you can recall it within a very short time through this chain reaction by thinking “my apartment.”

  You may have already noticed that our consciousness would be as narrow as a razor blade if we could flood our brain with only one active storage or thought at a time. Therefore, it must be possible to generate different whisper fields simultaneously in the same nerve structures—without them interfering with each other. Whisper fields can overlay each other. The more different whisper fields are simultaneously in your brain, the larger your consciousness is.

  Electronic consciousness: Instead of comparing a digital thought in the working memory (consciousness) with all digital storages, it might suffice to find only the first matching storage. The prerequisite is to store the storages with a timestamp. Once the first matching storage is found, the others that existed at the same time in the working memory can be located thanks to the timestamp. This could massively reduce computational demand.

  Very important when locating storage thoughts is that you are “tolerant.” A storage thought only needs to match the searching active storage to a certain percentage. Otherwise, intelligence would not work.

  Linkage Strength (Last Edited: May 27, 1997)

  Linkage strength is part of the linkage information contained in every storage. It indicates with what intensity another storage is addressed. But how does a different intensity arise at all?

  When a storage is activated, a whisper field arises that spreads like a kind of radio beacon through all nerve pathways of your brain. This whisper field is not a flash that is already gone while you still “see” it. Its activation level is highest at the beginning and then gradually fades, perhaps within about a second. From fully active to zero active, there are numerous activation levels.

  So when you store a thought, you not only remember the linkage key but also the activation level of all other thoughts that made up your consciousness at the storage moment. Your storage now has a key and an activation level for each simultaneously present thought.

  By remembering the activation level, it knows with what strength it must activate each linked storage. Thus, an addressed storage is not necessarily fully active but only as active as the strength with which it is awakened, you think. And you are right.

  But how is this physically possible, and why all this effort? Physically, the linkage strength could be stored simply by the linkage key being stronger or weaker. The activation level (whisper field strength) of a thought to be linked could leave a more or less distinct trace in the storage molecule.

  Yes, but the connection is already present in the linkage key, so why bother with linkage strength, you might ask. Linkage strength is a variable quantity. The more often you activate a storage, the greater the linkage strength becomes, the “clearer” the connection between the storages.

  A “useful” consciousness, a frequently used “grasping,” is thus ingrained and available more quickly when needed. As a result of this “clear” or “tight” connection of thoughts, the movements generated by them also run more smoothly, so your behavior appears more practiced.

  Desire Fields (Last Edited: July 31, 1997)

  To make their growing wishes clear, growing needs cause desire molecules to grow on their need plantation. These molecules can build a persistent whisper field that becomes stronger as the number of molecules increases. This whisper field is the desire field.

  Desire Molecules (Last Edited: July 31, 1997)Since whisper fields are based on protein molecules, desire fields need desire molecules in order to exist.

  Growing Need (Last Edited: May 27, 1997)

  Unlike a reactive need, a growing need becomes stronger by itself as long as it is not satisfied. Imagine the need growing like fruit on a plantation, which we call the need plantation. On one half of the plantation, desire molecules grow. They ensure that you feel the need by building a whisper field of desire and thereby overlaying your consciousness. The desire field becomes stronger the more desire molecules have grown on your need plantation.

  On the other half of the need plantation, saturation molecules grow. They do not generate a whisper field but wait for the signal from the hereditary sense storages. These give the signal as soon as thoughts appear in consciousness that awaken the hereditary sense storages. Now the hereditary sense storages overlay consciousness with their whisper field, which serves as a signal for the saturation molecules. The saturation molecules then begin to flow over to the desire molecules and connect with them there.

  Upon connection, that pleasant whisper field (the saturation field) builds up, which shows you that one of your needs is now being satisfied. After the saturation field has been “burned off,” the tension between saturation molecule and desire molecule is balanced. You therefore feel a saturation field only as long as new saturation molecules continue to flow over to the desire molecules. If both parts of the need plantation are empty, the need is completely satisfied.

  For desire fields and saturation fields, you can use the umbrella term need field. See also popularity need, eating need, mating need, drinking need.

  A need also becomes stronger when you awaken storages of its saturation—that is, when you remember how it once was when you satisfied it. Sensory storages that awaken and become storage-thoughts consist of the same whisper fields as sensory thoughts freshly coming from the senses into consciousness. The difference is that the storage-thoughts must be significantly weaker; otherwise, you would no longer be able to distinguish what comes from “outside” and what comes from “inside.”

  By indulging in memories of the satisfaction of a need, you can already trigger a modest flow of saturation molecules despite the weakened “sensuality” of the storage-thoughts. This partial satisfaction success causes the desire field of this need to become stronger, either through an explosive multiplication of desire molecules or by stimulating the existing desire molecules.

  After you have thus pumped up your need and saturated your consciousness with it, the movement cells also begin to move your body to advance the satisfaction. At this point in the insight, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the movement cells react to the appearance of the saturation fields to keep the flow of saturation molecules going through behavior. Thus, behavior depends on the strength of the need. A stronger need would have a more “intense” behavior available. For a satisfied need, the movement cells would no longer be stimulated.

  Whisper Fields (Last Edited: April 13, 1997)

  Certain arrangements of protein molecules—and perhaps other molecules as well—produce what you know as feelings. This whispering of molecules involves feeling fields or, somewhat amusingly, whisper fields. If you want to become famous, find out what they are made of. Here are a few hints:

  Whisper fields are not simply stronger or weaker. They can assume millions of states. All sensory impressions—such as colors, sounds, smells, touches in all variations—are each different, distinguishable whisper fields. Added to these are the feelings contributed by your needs.

  Now imagine all other living beings in the universe, including plants and single-celled organisms, with their often very different perceptions and needs. Where is the limit of whisper field variations?

  Well, you might object, a computer can create just as many variations with its calculations. So why whisper fields, when we have the richness of numerical variations? There is only one reason to assume whisper fields exist: You feel them!

  Whether they are composed of “simpler” forces or represent a distinct “form of energy,” it is useful to describe them as their own entity. Even if they do not actually exist, they help you illustrate thought processes. And this illustration may one day help discover what thinking “really” is about.

  Back to the hints: A whisper field is generated by a molecule. How large is the whisper field? I think its diameter is not much larger than the molecule itself. If the diameter were larger than your head, you could place your skull next to another and feel what is going on inside.

  However, the small whisper field can quickly expand like a radio beacon through all the nerve pathways of your brain, so that it is present everywhere simultaneously for the duration of its existence. This simultaneity is an important property of whisper fields because it is a prerequisite for the enormous performance of your little brain.

  For this simultaneity to be useful at all, whisper fields must also be able to overlay each other. It is not just one whisper field present everywhere in your brain at the same time, but hundreds or perhaps thousands. Thousands of fields overlay each other so that they are simultaneously everywhere in the brain. They form your consciousness.

  The more fields overlay each other, the greater your consciousness and your thinking power. Thousands of whisper fields simultaneously knock on billions of nerve cells to see if the molecules contained within react to their key fields and build whisper fields that, in turn, knock on billions of nerve cells again.

  The physical property of whisper fields to overlay while remaining themselves enables lightning-fast retrieval of many memory data. Compared to this, today’s high-performance computers look like tired pocket calculators.

  The overlaying of whisper fields also creates what you call thinking. Because only through the simultaneity of many whisper fields does something like “comprehension” arise.

  The thousands of fields that let you comprehend a table contain wood and the scent of food and taste and color and the pain of hitting your head while playing as a child and the hot soup on your pants...

  To comprehend a table, you remember a piece of your life and not a dictionary definition. In this kind of comprehension, there is no difference between your brain and that of your dog. Simpler brains have fewer whisper fields active simultaneously and therefore comprehend only simpler contexts. Something you can also often observe in humans.

  Whisper Molecule (Last Edited: February 5, 2025)

  A protein or other compound capable of generating a whisper field.