NOTE: BECAUSE THE MMA IS A HARD SLOG, FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKLY POST YOURS TRULY IS ATTACHING PRIOR POSTS AS AN APPENDIX TO EACH NEW POST, FOR THE READERS’S IMMEDIATE REVIEW.
CHAPTER 1 ~ ~ ~ The Keystone Challenge Strikes
The nominal past of events in which we have taken part as reminiscence among friends especially in the sweet or bitter "day" of our first contemporaries, is alive and well and still with us, and we with it.
The MMA is a project which constructs a model of actual time in which the linear time, which is presumed as common sense to science and society, finds a place of secondary importance. Developmental age is not Destiny.
The theologies of many religious traditions hold both God's eternity and common sense linear time to be true, with the caveat that eternity is more important.
Pondering these things, yours truly, the author of the MMA, has found himself converted from a comfortable cradle agnostic into being a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
This may be the one place, you may not want to go. But science drove Yours Truly there.
In the mid 1960's yours truly was a graduate student at the University of Oregon. There, he had passed all of his qualifying exams, and was preparing to study under a professor who had agreed to be his thesis advisor. Under this professor he would develop a thesis problem that would set his career course in experimental population biology.
Unexpectedly, the head of the invertebrate neurophysiology group asked him to join his group. It was a very attractive offer, but it would be a big change in career direction. Yours truly had to think it over.
As he mulled over the career offer, out of the blue came a very concrete and sober insight, which today in 2025, has become the keystone of the Myth Model of All.
The insight concerned the physics of the biological organism's hypercomplex neural physiology. This electrodynamic system is generated by an organism's metabolism. It contains, surrounds, and penetrates an organism internally, to the very atoms and ions implicit in its mass-energy measure. It also radiates a measurable external electromagnetic field.
Today, many serious neuroscientists believe that for humans and many organisms the unity of an organism’s electrodynamic system is the explanation of any organism's complete behavior. It also seemed within reach in the mid 1960s when new means to measure the electrodynamics of single cells, especially that of nerve cells and muscle fibers, were rapidly evolving.
And, and in those days the door to a cutting edge neuroscience laboratory had been opened to yours truly. But with a jolt he suffered the sober insight that electrodynamic unity, could not be the cause of our biologically felt experience.
As a Darwinian biologist with hands-on experience of several kinds of organisms in their habitat, the insight made it clear that sober experience, in some mode, was natural to all organisms, and that the organism's felt experience and the physics underlying neuroscience were two essentially different orders of being, up and down the biological tree of life.
At the time, even though physics and felt experience are both tightly implicative and correlated, the profound question to resolve was how do these two different orders of being relate in a higher meta scientific mode?
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2 ~ Light Dawns on the Field of Challenge
So, yours truly declined becoming a neurophysiologist. He saw that the heavy and exciting intellectual effort demanded by that discipline would surely drive out serious grappling with the solution to the much bigger question which the physics in neurophysiology and biological felt experience had set for him.
There is no need to give much of an account of how yours truly reached and eventually entered the Christian space. He wants only say that it was always sober without deep relationships with any Christians.
He had no self identifying clues as to what was going on in this space, except for the recently read "Development of Christian Doctrine" by John Henry Cardinal Newman. Fifteen years earlier he had noted a reference to Newman in a footnote of Alfred North Whitehead, most of whose works he had read by then.
And, yours truly must recount one other related, but out of the blue and very concrete and profound insight, which stuck him at the age of 15, in the same year when he had taken up Whitehead and Susanne K. Langer as his virtual scientific and philosophic mentors. He was sitting in the high school library, finishing up his reading, and glancing at the exit door, he saw an attractive girl whom he did not recognize, leaning into the door with her books on her hip. In that glance, the out of the blue, the concrete insight stuck.
The insight was that the girl, himself, everyone in the room, the city in which the high school was located, the whole world and the physical universe itself did not have to exist. But it did.
That was a Fact he could neither get around, nor put down. This insight was not religious; it was the most sober of Facts, for Yours Truly, who one day, became a Roman Catholic to his Graduate peers.
So, this presentation of MMA, the Myth Model of All, is intended for all audiences, secular and religious.
The MMA is a meta construct that implicitly contains all systematic human endeavors, such as the many sciences, and their Facts, yet the MMA has authority over none, and so is informal, yet informative about all. And, the MMA is always suggestive of the inscrutable mystery of the Divinity, which includes the MMA and all it contains. And, as it developed it applied to yours Truly.
The most crucial religious mysteries, for the MMA, are the Christian doctrine of creation in the Beginning works for yours Truly. Because it is a meta construct, every systematic human endeavor is implicitly present in the MMA, as a model within it.
Note: terms which have been written in Bold above are examples of terms which will be used in a mostly consistent manner throughout this narrative. They are summarized for each post, as immediately below:
New terms: MMA, Fact, meta. See Appendix for a list of all terms. Terms used to frame the MMA account are not defined, but given in an implicit and relational sense. Don’t look up words, look along, them.
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