Cognitive phenomena show quantum, particle-like features

Animals gather nutrients and avoid physical dangers; they actively enhance their access to information and thus their survival through the sensory system. Because sensory organs are information-gathering machines, interaction with sensory stimuli corresponds to an energy-information exchange. 

The subtle regulation of brain frequencies' path, rhythm, and extent makes the brain a complex yet ingenious system. However, the brain is much more than a finely regulated circuit board. Electrical activity generates associations, meaning, and memory in ways reminiscent of quantum networks. Quantum theory has modeled mental phenomena in fields as diverse as search engine optimization, psychology, economics, and sociology for nearly a century. More than 70 recent national surveys examined the order effect of successive attitude questions and found that human judgment aligns with quantum probability theory. In quantum systems, outcomes depend heavily on the measurement context; likewise, almost all cognitive processes, such as memory, decisions, and perception, are contextual. In social science, quantum theory can predict how question order affects outcomes.

The cortex's pattern of neuronal activation triggers corresponding memories or experiences and forms a "temporal horizon." Reminiscent of the observer effect in quantum mechanics, the brain's quantum-like evolution maintains the mind's unity and permanence. Measurement (interaction) actively changes the particle being measured, and in the brain, this corresponds to cognitive change. The mental world is organized into a steady, stepwise progression of perception or learning, such as the empowering moment of riding a bike for the first time. The same holds for recognition, getting a joke, or meeting a friend. A moment of inspiration occurs when a new balance forms and understanding clicks. Conscious awareness holds mental content "fixed" and "frozen" within a discrete yet continuous phenomenal unity. Because sensory processing converts spatial relationships into temporal rhythms, the material world's spatial relationships translate into temporal evolution. 

The brain's gradually improving responses to stimuli shaped the mind into a structural, organizational mirror of physical systems. Therefore, social interaction engenders particle-like features and quantum characteristics, such as uncertainty, hysteresis, and territorial needs.

My book Emotional Reasoning: Insight into the Conscious Experience was published on August 30, 2024. 

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