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Considering the main aspects of a previous formal model of the relationships unconscious-conscious based on the representation of mental entities by m-adic numbers through hysteresis phenomenology, a pattern which has been then used to work out a possible psychoanalytic model of human consciousness as well as to argue on a simple derivations of p-adic Weber-Fechner laws of psychophysics, we now carry on along this formal analysis putting forward some remarks about the possible applications and consequences of this model of human psyche in regard to central themes of economics and sociology.
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Iurato, G. Hysteresis, Unconscious and Economics. P-Adic Num Ultrametr Anal Appl 11, 270–279 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2070046619040022
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