1 The Physical Teleology of Syntropic Interaction: An Experimentally Testable Anthropic Cosmology

Abstract. The Cognitive model Mind = Brain is grossly incorrect. The alternative chosen is an extended form of Eccles-Cartesian interactive dualism with a physically real Cartesian res cogitans- "mind stuff " (that does not violate the laws of thermodynamics or conservation of energy) that interacts with res extensa- "body stuff". We equate the required 'life principle ' with the unified field of physics or if preferred the ubiquitous spirit of God represented as the 3rd regime in the progression Classical- Quantum- Unified Field Mechanics. This noetic paradigm is empirically testable. We now have 14 experimental protocols to falsify the model. We will discuss details of the physical cosmology of the unified theory creating an ‘Empirical Metaphysics ’ by integrating science and theology and outline the empirical tests. We believe the ancient mind-body problem has now been summarily solved. “There is … only being. ” – Albert Einstein [1] If [all physicists] follow the same current fashion in expressing and thinking about electrodynamics or field theory, then the variety of hypotheses being generated... is limited. Perhaps rightly so, for possibly the chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction- a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory- who will find it? Only someone who sacrifices himself... from a peculiar and unusual point of view, one may have to invent for himself- Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize lecture