Static Waves [Credence of Possibility]
When the highs are high, we can move mountains; when they’re low, we drown in the wave pattern. Overlaying neurochemistry to the physics of potentiality
Physics of Potentiality
If we can effectuate the right kind of psychological and neurochemical configuration, we can propagate an energetic level of conviction in our perspective that safeguards us (and our experience) against a diminishment of possibility.
It’s a lot to unpack.
Our perspective can resemble a static wave pattern, nodes and anti-nodes oscillating endlessly amidst an indecipherable matrix of potentiality.
We ride that wave like a roller coaster — enjoying the highs of assertiveness and unrestricted motion, loathing the lows of burdening doubt or dimming prospect.
All the while, our brain chemistry is hard at work as our neurotransmitters deploy ever-presently to influence our differing modalities of perception and our dispositions — restricting or enabling our mobility amongst the waves of what’s possible.
From a level of neurochemical function, dopaminergic stimulation and serotonergic balance can enhance our reward-based feedback loops, stabilize our mood, and avoid a lot of unnecessary turbulence along the winding ride through the peaks and valleys of personal credence.
The kicker is how this all relates to our perception of possibility and how it allows us to navigate through opportunity — because it undoubtedly does, at all times, in all ways.
When the highs are high, we can move mountains; when they’re low, we drown in the wave pattern.
Regardless of what can be done to insulate oneself from the swing values of life, a susceptibility persists — a vulnerability not only to the tides of fate, but to the waves of perspective that carry us.
Interestingly, we can anchor ourselves so that we’re not bobbed around so dramatically from the polar extremes of energized optimism to dissolved dejection — to avoid drifting into the realm of collapsed possibility.
We can stabilize, and remain within the causal currents of opportunity; like an escape velocity from the low hanging fruits of what’s possible, into the stratosphere of open potentiality.
We can thus expand potential as we maneuver through options and opportunities that grow, rather than fade, alongside of us.
Frequencies and [neuro]transmissions
Confidence itself is a term that has become too saturated with an emotional or motivational level of meaning, yet the very effectiveness of our maneuverability through space and time depends on our state of mind.
Accordingly, consider the word credence or conviction in place of confidence. Consider too that our frame of reference (or frame of mind) decides on the potency of surrounding possibility.
Within the quantum gambit of the observer effect, consider how wave functions don’t collapse until fate itself is enforced or prompted — until it’s perceived.
Different aspects of conviction (or credence) involve different neurochemical processes, with varying deployments of certain hormones.
An optimistic and convicted perspective expands the ranges of possibility — perceptions fuel movement, from one opportunity to the next. The more expansive of a perspective, the more potent a field of possibility.
Within this expanded outlook, neurotransmitters like dopamine or norepinephrine are cycled about in ways that prove conducive towards enhanced perspective; they’re triggered not out of fear or urgency but out of excitement.
A lack of conviction or credence, in either oneself or in the world, or in whatever else (from child-rearing to skill-building), is a self-defeating entropic process of diminishing returns whereby energy is always depleting and time is always running out.
This amounts to more fixed dispositions like self-doubt, or broken perspectives — like overly-assuming a perpetual scarcity of resources or an unrelenting paranoia. Arguably, such dispositions are reinforced through the continual deployments of various hormones, like serotonin, that galvanize outlooks of defeated potential.
To boil it down: adjusting perception in the right way expands the field of potential, whether we want to interpret that in a motivational sense, a pragmatic sense, a religious sense, or whatever else.
On the physiological front, a feedback loop is generated between our perspective and our neurochemical deployments, whether optimized (i.e. dopaminergic reinforcement of conviction) or destabilized (i.e. serotonergic perpetuation of poor mood).
We can, and often do, ignore the neurophysiological side of things, but it has become more difficult as of late, as neuroscience has continuously uncovered the tremendous potential of chemical effectuations within the circuitry of our minds.
Ultimately, it seems more and more apparent that the corresponding enhancement of our neurochemical feedback systems is critical, and something that can be said to exponentiate our maneuverability through the nodes and anti-nodes of opportunity and potentiality.
Unwavering Movement
Our perceptions and outlooks can be altered to better stabilize our convictions; in so doing, we’re gifted with an expanded (and ever-expanding) field of possibility to operate within.
A bit cliché but consider the observer effect and the position of the observer themselves relative to the surrounding possibilities — their prescient perspective determines the range of possible outcomes.
The neurochemical playground of the mind and propagates the dispositions (of optimism or pessimism) that themselves can be formulated and reinforced via external stimulation or internal provocation.
Suddenly, certain questions bubble up:
- Does culture, which seems to increasingly saddle us down with perspectives of scarcity and tribalism, play a healthy (or even necessary) role in our general movement through space and time?
- What variables, neuronal or otherwise, serve to obscure the otherwise limitless fields of possibility that we navigate through?
- What role does neuroplasticity play in all of this — specifically with respect to the ongoing and dynamic formation of our dispositions and tendencies?
Maybe we’re the curious result of what happens when nature becomes too unnatural — our neurological evolution may not be able to keep up with the chaos of a rapidly changing surrounding environment; or maybe we’re a testament to the incredible adaptability that can be achieved as we become more aware of our own neurological capacities.
Ironically, fittingly and meaningfully, it’s all a matter of perspective.
