Is Brain in a Superfluid State? Physics of Consciousness
arXiv Preprint Archive December 16, 2010 Benoy Chakraverty
The mind can be modeled as an abstract Hilbert space where information behaves like particles, created by a non-Hermitian operator called Self. These particles form a coherent information field, and the average of the Self operator constitutes the basic sense of 'I'. Awareness and consciousness are response functions of these operators to the external world. Using a simple neural model, the article shows how a baby under two years old develops self-awareness once neural connectivity reaches a critical value. The 'I' is a cognitive order parameter arising from a thermodynamic phase transition from chaos to a symmetry-broken coherent state, similar to superfluidity.