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You bring your attention back to the breath. Sometimes, after many such returns, the effort eases. Thoughts lose their urgency, while awareness remains clear.
Less occupies the mind, yet the moment still feels whole. We are interested in what makes that wholeness possible. Even an ordinary moment brings together vision, memory, bodily sensation and attention.
Their contents change constantly, but they belong to one experience. What physical organization allows the brain to hold them together, and what happens to that organization when experience itself appears to stop? In our paper, "A Coherence–Dissipation Framework for Brain Dynamics and Consciousness," published in the journal Entropy, we approach these questions through the quantum phenomenon of superconductivity, symmetry and the balance between coherence and dissipation.
We propose a mathematical structure that could be sought in neural recordings, with meditation offering a setting in which to study how the relationship between activity and experience changes. The brain continually spends energy to sense, respond and learn. That expenditure is part of being alive.
At the same time, it must preserve enough coordination for changing signals to form a usable whole. Our model asks how these demands fit together: how the brain maintains integration while allowing experience to change. Superconductivity offers a useful physical example.
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