Structures of Authority: Obedience, Domination, Control, and Revolt

This work brings together selected chapter sections from Invisible Boundaries, one volume of the broader neurophilosophical project Mental Reality and Invisible Boundaries. The text examines obedience, authority, domination, justice, rights, freedom, control, and revolt as interconnected structures within the human mind and social life. Rather than treating these concepts only as moral, political, or cultural categories, the selected sections approach them as biological, cognitive, affective, and narrative mechanisms. The work first analyzes the structures of authority that make obedience possible, then examines the architecture of domination across family, ideology, language, media, workplace relations, and political systems. It then turns to narratives of justice, rights, freedom, and control, showing how the mind transforms biological mechanisms of fairness and agency into symbolic structures that can both resist and reproduce power. The final section moves from critique toward the positive possibility of dignified revolt: a conscious refusal to cooperate with structures that reproduce suffering, passivity, and domination. Together, these sections explore how the mind internalizes power, constructs social reality, and may recover agency through invisible psychological and narrative boundaries.