Hi dude,
This is good fun, and I'm getting it ever clearer in my own mind by trying to explain it : )
I may have accidentally misled by using the term, 'synchrony' rather than 'synergy'; the former referring more to physical sync while the latter means 'working together to the same end'. And yes! it is a noun -My bad!
I'll go through T11 at some point and assess this, so:
Re: congruity refers to "synchrony" between networks in one individual's brain.
...Only in the sense that they are working together and not in opposition; not like 'all firing at once'. Congruity doesn't create 'sync'(so 'synergy' is a better term).
Congruity is much more about mind than brain. It's about concepts; beliefs agreeing with reality are congruous beliefs. If you believe you have red hair and you actually HAVE red hair, that's congruity. If you consciously believe you have red hair but unconsciously know you have brown hair, that's incongruity. It sounds so obvious when we put it like this, we may think nobody would ever do that... oddly, most of us do have some incongruous beliefs, usually due to not being able to access our own unconscious knowledge (or due to having been told a load of crap).
There is a great quote from musician Frank Zappa: "If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television … then you deserve it." ...I don't quite agree with Frank here but we can see what he means, applied to what we consciously believe.
A great example of incongruity is lots of folks daily tucking into their modified corn breakfasts, consciously believing “cereals are good for you”. Meanwhile in reality the unconscious is getting the chemical messages “Poor nutrition only,” concluding, “There must be a famine; -better start storing loads of fat!” and signaling the genome accordingly. Here the result of incongruity can clearly be a killer.
Re: And the unconscious concepts within an individual are the same for everyone else?
...Unconscious concepts are mainly universal, as the basics are the same for all of us. For example anyone on earth will have shared unconscious knowledge; things such as: “gravity exists. I am a mammal. Upwards is that way. Behind me is over there. Falling off cliffs is bad. When I feel hunger, then I should try to eat. When I feel sexy, then I should try to have sex. When I feel tired, then I should try to sleep. I live on a planet.” These facts are the same for all humans and pretty much the same for all living mammals. The laws of physics and motion, of mechanics and mathematics, are also universal for all of us.
There will be differences according to location (for me, it goes dark every night; for a dude in the arctic, it may not. In my location, the weather is usually shite; some other dude somewhere is lying in the sunshine.) There will also be differences of taste (when hungry, we may eat meat; some other dude may really dislike meat) and genome-related differences (some dude is allergic to meat). We all have different genomes and more importantly we express genes differently due to input & experience, so everyone's unconscious knowledge will be tailored to them personally but each system will have congruity within itself.
What will be very different are the details, for example you may like some foods I don't like, we may both be sexually attracted to totally different people, we may not get tired at the same time as each other. Our tastes in art and music may be different...and so on.
Knowing what the unconscious knows and consciously agreeing with it allows congruous mentality to emerge.
Re: IF all unconscious concepts are universal then for their to be variety then there are many different types of input that would synchronize with the unconscious concepts.
...I'm not absolutely clear what you mean here; variety comes in due to genome/ location/ experience/ input and other factors. Even identical twins express their genes differently according to epigenetic factors, as we know -the older they get the more the genomes diverge. So sure, there are millions of types of input combinations & transcription factors that can fine-tune genetic expression.
Network 5 is pretty essential for self-knowledge, because it can detect our individual differences as adeptly as N4 can detect our similarities. But if I go diving into N5 abilities before we finish N4 (with Tutorial 12) it could get confusing.
Best,
AR