Cognitive phenomena show quantum, particle-like features

Animals try to gather nutrients and avoid physical dangers; they actively enhance their access to information – thus survival – via the sensory system. Because the sensory organs are information-grabbing machines, interaction through sensory stimulus corresponds to energy-information exchange. 

The subtle regulation of the path, rhythm, and extent of brain frequencies turn the brain into a complex yet ingenious system. However, the brain is much more than a finely regulated circuit board. Electric flows generate associations, meaning, and memory in ways reminiscent of quantum networks. Quantum theory can model mental phenomena in fields as diverse as search engine optimization, psychology, economy, and sociology – in some cases, for nearly a century. More than 70 recent national surveys, which examined the order effect of successive attitude questions, found human judgment satisfying quantum probability theory. In quantum systems, the outcome is highly dependent on the context of measurement, and likewise, almost all cognitive processes, such as memory, decisions, and perception, are contextual. In social science, quantum theory can predict how the order of questions affects the outcome.

The cortex neuronal activation pattern 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, it corresponds to cognitive change. The mental world is sectioned into a steady, step-wise progression of perception or learning, such as the empowering moment of riding a bike for the first time. This is the same for recognition, getting a joke, or meeting a friend. There is a moment of inspiration when a new balance is formed and understanding clicks. Conscious awareness holds mental content “fixed,” “frozen,” within a discrete but continuous phenomenal unity. Because sensory processing converts spatial relationships into temporal rhythms, the material world's spatial relationships are translated into a temporal evolution. 

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

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