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EMI model: A scale free biophysical framework for human consciousness, cognition and behaviour
Tommaso Firaux1, Jack A Tuszynski2, Marco Cavaglià3
1Department of Education and Human Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
The Energy-Mass-Information (EMI) framework integrates neurobiology, physics, and information theory to explain consciousness and cognition. It views mental phenomena as emergent properties of dynamic, field-based interactions within the brain-mind system.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Physics
- Information Theory
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Current understanding of consciousness, cognition, and behavior lacks an integrated framework.
- Existing models often fail to bridge neurobiology, physics, and information theory effectively.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose the Energy-Mass-Information (EMI) framework as a novel paradigm for conceptualizing mental phenomena.
- To reconceptualize the brain-mind system as a dynamic network of energetic, material, and informational interactions.
- To offer a unifying perspective that links subjective experience to measurable processes.
Main Methods:
- Developing the EMI framework rooted in the Unified Holographic Framework for Neural Coherence and Consciousness (UHF).
- Integrating principles from quantum coherence, neural synchronization, and dynamic systems theory.
- Conceptualizing cognition through attractor states in the brain's energy-information landscape.
Main Results:
- The EMI framework conceptualizes mental phenomena as emergent properties of dynamic, field-based interactions.
- Cognition arises from the formation and modulation of attractor states guided by resonance and self-organization.
- Consciousness is viewed as a holographically organized phenomenon shaped by internal and external fields.
- Behavior emerges as macroscopic expressions of shifts in informational attractors.
Conclusions:
- The EMI framework provides a transdisciplinary approach to understanding the brain-mind system.
- It offers a unifying perspective that transcends reductionist models.
- It links subjective experience to measurable neurophysiological and field-level processes.
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