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The Theory of Everything
Theory of Everything No. 1, An Essay in Short Parts:
on September 15, 2023
by Dr. David Walls-Kaufman
Human behavior, choice and reward are centered around the Haley’s Comet of human genius. Genius is the tip of the mountain with all value down to the last penny descended along the slopes of this comet trail as it travels wherever it goes. We are driven, by design, to want the improved quality of life from the greater understandings and advantages from our ideas. But it is how in the politeness of getting genius to work best that is the crux of human ethics and enlightenment. How do we coax the best efforts from one another? We consistently demonstrate an auxetic centripetal-centrifugal integrity wrapped around this singular holistic creative status. Our realization, our politeness to one another, is bound into this truth. This is the center point of a Periodic Table of universal civil rights that human history has evolved toward but that we have missed so far because we haven’t made enough mistakes. The energy and vigor of Left, Right and any other comers are always headed toward this greater politeness because of its advantageous risk:reward profile and higher efficiency. To miss this relationship is to commit self-damage. The ongoing self-damage is intrinsic to the lesson plan.
This behavioral integrity in perfect biological intelligence is the basis of the Theory of Everything. It takes its place in the musical scale of string theory to complete our understanding of who and what we are and what we are here to do. This is behavioral quantum mechanics.
Part I: What Is the Theory of Everything?
I am like you. I think about everything. I started thinking about everything in November 1977 when I read of Calhoun’s experiments in rat population growth and what he called “behavioral sink.”1 Then, I came up with my suspicion that population stress exists—“The creature that has no predator becomes predator to itself.” And: “The creature that has no predator becomes vulnerable to imagining enemies where none might truly exist.” Almost fifty years later, here is my first essay on the Theory of Everything.
I acknowledge that “the landscape on the Theory of Everything is littered with failed attempts,” and that the equals of Einstein, Staats, E.O. Wilson, and others have failed to bring human events full circle around a single, unwavering push-pull concept. Gleiser, Berlin and Henriques have said to do so is impossible.2
I will work outwardly from this essay to see what movement I can create in drawing attention to the idea that the Unified Theory is here, and that it is basic and plausible enough that it didn’t need to come from quantum physics first. In the meantime, undergraduate and graduate students can have great fun matching wits with professors in the lag time before this interpretation of reality’s core becomes known.
I believe others have failed because they did not look at human events through the lens of health and stress and benefit, and that all of our problems are health problems, so to speak. There is only one ultimate health, after all—thriving. And the idea of what is a healthy state or not is largely inarguable, and rather tangible, and then maybe we can look at everything through the filter of whether it impacts well or ill on our mental, physical, chemical and social health, and we can remove any grey area uncertainties by increasing dose.
In my fifty years in this arena, I have only found five things that are “perfectly” good for our thriving at any dose, in an open-ended fashion. These five things behave the same way life does, presumably, at its best. This theory forms my base. It is why I can’t conceive of anything to add or edit, and why it is time to let the toddler stumble out on its own to criticism. I am also anxious to meet criticism, which is why the tone of this essay is intended to stimulate schadefreuder, to get the arrows coming. Where can I be wrong?
