their aborted thesis suggested a boggling array of benefits which might accrue from such links between cybernetic processes and awareness itself , including the exploration of the brains unused capacities , awareness of the morphogentic field and thus conscious control of autonomic functions , mind-directed repair of tissue at the cellular/genetic level ( control over most diseases and the aging process ) , and even a direct perception of the heisenbergian behavior of matter ( a process they called surfing the wave function ) .