Peace all
The followings are some of the conclusions (There are more conclusions) of The Human Behavioral Theory; I will post the details of any point when asked.
Looking forward for your opinion.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
Years ago, my journey with finding the truths about human behavior started. I have always believed that all humans and their behaviors could be explained by a unified theory. In my observation and research of the real and known stories about humans and their behaviors, I have noted that most of behaviors do not match the known theories. Humans have been challenging the researchers to reach a theory that can explain the reasons and motivations behind their behaviors.
I believed that reaching the truth, about human behaviors, had to start from the ground up and not be built on existing theories. By doing so, I developed different hypotheses, which most of the time failed to be generalized theories about all humans with their different cultures and beliefs. Therefore, I rejected them.
In 2004, my efforts in finding a foundation that I could build my theory on reached its end.
?All humans who have lived in the past or recent days, with their differences in age, color, and cultures, like to feel good (comfortable) and dislike to feel bad (Stressed).?
In other words, humans have two drives, one they try to maximize?good emotions, and the other they try to minimize?bad emotions. With such a hypothesis, my theory has reached a true foundation. Based on such a foundation, I started to build several hypotheses.
Humans feel good?good emotions?when fulfilling their needs and/ or preventing their harms, and bad?bad emotions?when failing to do so.
Needs and harms can be divided into two groups, bodily and non-bodily.
The bodily group is similar in all humans, and the body known homeostasis controls the way its emotions work. Humans feel good when fulfilling or preventing their craved needs or harms, and bad when failing. Such needs and harms and their related emotions are hardwired in humans? brain (God created us that way); in other words, humans will have bad emotions in their system if they fail to fulfill or prevent the existing bodily need or harm, and they have no control over the body-brain-emotions-mechanism.
The non-bodily group?the psychological group?is not the same in all humans, and the mechanism in which it works is controlled by the ability of humans to wire their brain in what should constitute a psychological need or harm (Human's Free-Well). Once such a group is developed, the brain will produce the emotions that guide humans in fulfilling and preventing the needs and harms. The good and bad emotion-brain-mechanism works in a similar way like the bodily needs and harms emotion-brain-mechanism. Moreover, I believe that humans have the ability to reevaluate this part?the psychological?by rewiring their brain-emotions-mechanism.
The controversial issue of ?soul? came into my consideration due to my effort in finding the part that controls and wires the brain?s psychological emotional part. By reviewing different historical and recent sources, I found that the word ?soul? is used widely when mentioning humans and their free-well, which means the ability to choose and control one?s own behaviors. Therefore, I chose the word ?soul? as an appropriate name for the part that controls one?s fulfillment and prevention of the needs and harms; and in doing so, the soul is guided by the produced emotions. In other words, the human souls are rewarded by good emotions in their bodies, when fulfilling the bodily needs and preventing the bodily harms?hard wired?and punished by bad emotions when failing; and in the same mechanism, the psychological part works, but with one very important different element, that is, the soul is the one that defines (Invented) such a part.
Humans, using their senses, choose among the different alternatives the ones that will have good emotions, more than the bad emotions; in other words, they will be guided to choose the alternatives that will have more benefits than the paid costs. Hence, benefits are fulfilled needs or prevented harms-bodily or psychological?and costs are paid harms?bodily or psychological.
Any individual will set or choose his ultimate goal that he needs to achieve in life (e.g., education, profession, wealth) as the one that will grant (he thinks) his control over his brain?s emotional triggers, which means, in real life behaviors, the goal that will grant the fulfillment of his physical and psychological needs, and prevention of his physical and psychological harms.
The process of communicating between the brain and the outside world is done through the known input devices?the human senses. Thus, the bodily and non-bodily needs and harms are recognized and wired in the brain memory in the form of visions, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures. In other words, when the body needs a specific element, such as protein, it will communicate such a need to the brain?s limbic stem system (Hamer, 2004 in citing the work of Edelmen, 1992), which will relate this element to specific memorized foods that the human has experienced before, such as a hamburger. The resulting craving signal will be the craving for hamburger, in the form of taste, smell, vision, and textures that a human locates using his senses. Today, the human will have different choices about where he can obtain the hamburger or meat, and his choice will depend on the way he evaluates each brand. But the final emotion?good or bad?will depend on the taste and smell of the food, which has to match the body?s homeostasis.
We believe that the taste and smell senses are hardwired in the brain, and humans use them to fulfill the body?s homeostasis; and therefore, the resulting emotions will depend on the success in fulfilling the needed element. This hypothesis is based on the known facts. For example, if a given human likes?good emotions?the taste and smell of a particular kind of steak, and if such a person, once he consumes 2 pounds of this steak, becomes full in a way that he can no longer stand the smell and taste of it?bad emotions?then the taste and smell resulting emotions are hardwired based on the body homeostasis.
Moreover, we have noted that the vision and sound inputs are not as hard wired as the smell and taste. Therefore, we propose that humans using their vision and sound, input devices are able to wire the brain emotional results, and thus, the psychological part is developed based on such an ability . But the texture input device will need further research.
Brands are the objects or stimuli that humans have been learning about since birth, using their senses, which are related to their needs and harms?bodily and psychological. Some of these brands for a given human being are his family members, Religions, friends, other people, food, drinks, animals, and objects. Brands that fulfill bodily or psychological needs, and prevent bodily or psychological harms are liked. Brands that evoke bodily or psychological harms, and prevent the fulfillment of bodily or psychological needs are disliked. In other words, a brand, when sensed by humans will evoke emotions?good or bad?based on its evaluation.
Once a given brand is evaluated, human brains will produce emotions?good or bad?when such a brand is sensed or recalled from the memory. Humans will like the brands that evoke good emotions and dislike the ones that evoke bad emotions. Humans will deal with the liked brands, and will abandon the disliked ones, unless they are needed to fulfill an essential need or prevent an essential harm?bodily or psychological; if such a disliked brand is needed, humans will treat it as a cost that needs to be paid to obtain the essential benefit.
We believe that any attempt to understand and generalize a theory regarding the non-bodily part, as Maslow (1943) attempted to accomplish, would fail due to the differences in such a psychic from one human to another and from time to time within the same human. As we know, for example, each culture, society, and religion has its sets of needs and harms that most of the time are perceived, adopted, and valued differently within one group. And therefore, humans will adapt to such values differently, and, as a result of such differences, they will be guided differently by their brain-emotions. But indeed they all will feel good when fulfilling the needs and preventing harms that they have adapted to. In other words, the billions of humans who are living today are different in their personalities?psychological part; but all are the same in their body homeostasis, and in the way they will feel when fulfilling and preventing their needs and harms?good or bad emotions. Moreover, they all try to embrace the good emotions and avoid or try to minimize the bad ones.
Ones can assume that due to the important role of emotions in the motivational process, humans are irrational when making decisions. I believe that humans can be irrational or rational when guided by their emotions. Moreover, I believe that emotions?good or bad?are produced under one?s control, as the scientific data have proven, and the intensity of such emotions is controlled by humans? ability to tune its intensity. Thus, humans are intelligent if they choose to control their emotions.
the nafs/soul was explained with lengthy words on her books (ex imam fakhrudin ar razi on his al nafs), the psychology now which teaches in all school was imported from western behavior that paradox with the islamic view, so the duty of our generation is to revise the psychology from western style to islamic style but the task is not easy, we need the hard effort....
salam
