Freeman, W., Vitiello, G.
Matter and mind are entangled in two streams of images guiding behavior and informing the subject through awareness
(2016) Mind and Matter, 14 (1), pp. 7-24.
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, United States;
Department of Physics ‘E.R. Caianiello’, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy;
National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Italy
ABSTRACT: Brains acquire knowledge by acting into the environment to confirm or reject hypotheses imagined from memory in the actionperception cycle. Memories are created and updated through phase transitions from a gas-like ground state to a liquid-like condensate that we model as a dissipative quantum field. Each retrieved memory is imposed in the amplitude modulation (AM) of a narrow band carrier frequency of a macroscopic wave packet in the beta-gamma range of brain waves. Brains imagine hypotheses about the world by copying AM patterns and mirroring them in time. We postulate that the AM patterns in forward thermodynamic time implements action (matter), while the time-reversed copy (mirrored time) governs perception (mind, awareness). They are entangled dynamical modes that we distinguish by patterns of phase modulation that accompany the AM patterns in the electrocorticogram. © 2016 Imprint Academic.
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