Jun’ichi Kaneko
Surely most everyone would agree with the idea that behind a phenomenon there is always a material base corresponding to it? Assuming that most would agree, I would like to advance the following description. For the sake of easy understanding, let us present the hypothesis first, then I will add some further explanation. Hypothesis: Even now, we Homo sapiens are born with God present in the right hemisphere of our cerebrum. Simultaneously, mirror neurons are provided by nature for the strict sociality and imitation. With the normal function of these mirror neurons and intimate contacts with our mother, we become able to objectify ourselves through a medium, a mirror, at about the age of two (the stage of mirror image). After that, through the process of literal learning, the voice of God urging decision-making will be suppressed. Then, the right hemisphere changes into another personality equivalent to the left hemisphere. Corpus callosum connecting right and left hemispheres, makes possible the transmission of neural signals between the right and left hemispheres, and the transmission is received by the mirror neurons as self-objectification. In this way consciousness will be formed. If some stresses are brought upon the ‘I’ formed by consciousness, the experience of union with God (mystic experience) will sometimes be carried out through the momentary or temporary changes that follow conversely the processes experienced from the infant stage until the formation of consciousness. Due to differences in the character and strength of the stress, the changes happen continuously or, in a word, continually. That is schizophrenia.