Making a change

Define a pattern of thoughts and activities as a distribution of these entities across a generic interval, say I, of time. Let S be a pattern of thoughts and activities that a generic person, H, performs during her life. Define S(H, I) as the statement "Person H performs pattern of thoughts and activities S during the interval of time I". Define vital energy as the immaterial force created by directed efforts from any person H towards any goal. Define En(H, G, I) as the amount of vital energy that person H directs towards a given goal G during the given interval of time I.

Then,

• Conjecture 1: A person's environment naturally produces friction against any expression of vital energy, proportional to the amount of the vital energy expressed. Call this amount of friction F(c*En), where c is a constant such that 0<c<1.

• Conjecture 2: If a person H performs S, a recurring pattern of thoughts and activities during the interval of time I inside an approximately stable living environment, then the pattern of thoughts and activities which person H will perform after I, call it S', will equal

S' = S + (1-c)*(Sum of En(H, G, I) over all goals G of person H during interval I).

Note: This last sum will also be denoted by SumEn(H, I)

• Conjecture 3: It is an extension of the common concept of inertia that any person H who performs a pattern S will naturally tend to continue performing this pattern S, unless disturbed by forces, either internal or external to the person.

• Conjecture 4: Given any person H who performs a pattern of thoughts and activities S during any given interval I of time of length T, and any given target pattern of thoughts and activities S*, there exists a finite sequence of patterns Si , i=1, ..., n, where Sn = S*, which person H can adopt during subsequent, consecutive time intervals Ii of length T by directing vital energy into a sequence of directed goals Gi.

Or something like that.