ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author assumes a theory's depth is roughly equivalent to its generality, or its ability to contain and explains many less general ideas. The most general concepts are needed when attempting to integrate concepts at multiple levels of analysis. The relationships between theoretical concepts in neuropsychoanalysis and the psychobiology of the autonomic nervous system are central in the development of the deepest, most general concepts of body, brain and mind. Psychoanalytic theory assumed that moral standards forbidding incest and murder were the foundational building blocks of the human mind. Scientific study of the body, brain, mind, and culture is a vast social activity, involving increasing numbers of individuals and organisations throughout the world. Scientists want to study the essential dynamics of objects and their evolution. Biopsychological tendencies to approach pleasure and avoid pain, along with simple ignorance of the truth, mean that most people's concepts of themselves and the external world are compromise formations.
