The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior

Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris

Some questions that I can answer with this theory

• What is sleep?
• What is the sleep connection to mental illness?
• What is the drug and alcohol connection to mental illness?
• Why are there therapeutic ranges in the use of medications?
• How can drugs that harm you make you feel good?
• How can drugs that make you feel worse seem to make you better in other ways?
• What is the neurological process behind addiction?
• What is the neurological process behind placebo effect?
• What is stress (in neurological terms)?
• Why is there a connection genius (savant abilities) and mental illness?
• What is the neurological explanation of the development of allergies?
• Why do autistic children have such characteristic beauty during the early childhood years?
• What about the mapping of the brain makes multiple personality disorder possible but extremely rare?
• Why does mental illness so often accompany increased creativity?
• Why does mental illness so often appear alongside genius? And visa versa?
• Why is it possible for people with Dissociative Personality Disorder to have personalities with different heart rates, respiration rates and allergic sensitivities from the other personalities?
• Why does laughter include postures and expressions typical of stress (fear, startle...)?
• Why are genetic factors in mental illness only influences affecting a minority of those with the same genetics (a rare exception being Huntington's Disorder)?
• Why is non-verbal communication particularly difficult for those leaning toward autism?
• What is the chemical/physical or rather brain-communicative process responsible for placebo effect?
• Why do extremely stressful treatments (such as electric shock, freezing, flogging, exposure to toxins) have a beneficial effect on a percentage of those who suffer from many of the physical and mental ailments?
• What is the biological explanation (in the nervous system) for the infant's decrease in response to any repeated event (habituation) or for the seeking of novelty (dishabituation)?
• What is the neurological explanation of the process behind different temperaments in people that are apparent at birth?
• Why are there universally consistent features to a parent's "baby talk" (when used) that can be found in any culture or language?
• Why do animals sleep?
• What is the process in the brain behind focus and attention? And why is this such an important discovery relating to understanding of why most medications get their results?
• What causes dreaming?
• What do autism, dissociation, meditation, repression and hypnosis have in common?
• Why do boys exhibit behaviors that are more aggressive using gross motor movement for fun, and girls prefer quieter activities using fine motor skills? (Explained in neurological communication.)
• Why are men more vulnerable than women to disease, physical disorders, childhood disabilities, developmental disorders, and die earlier?
• What process causes the slowing of reflexes and the diminishment of memory in the aging?
• Why does the body temperature go down during the course of the night of sleep?

(I started writing this list and quickly realized that I could spend, perhaps waste, several months just writing down the questions I can answer. The theory explains everything. Everything I read brings up more questions that can be answered with the right system and the right ability to think. I’m able to create several major theories a day. I’m thinking it much faster than I can communicate it.)

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