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Pattern Formation of Grand States

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This chapter is concerned with pattern formation of grand states. That is, pattern formation is considered that involves structural changes. The structural changes are not due to external forces that act as driving forces as discussed in Chap. 6. Rather, the structural changes are part of the pattern formation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The author of this book is tempted to coin the slogan “Consciousness for everyone or for no-one”, which would be polemics. The matter-of-fact statement should read “Consciousness for any pattern formation system or for no pattern formation system” and would hold only within the physics perspective.

  2. 2.

    In fact, future technology probably will allow us to conduct experiments in which rats would be rewarded not on the basis of the physical movements that they produce (i.e., running through the food door) but on the basis of the brain activity patterns that they produce. In such experiments, force production would be negligible. For studies on monkeys such technology is already in use [208].

  3. 3.

    See however the previous Sect. 7.4.2.

  4. 4.

    In this context, frequently the catch-phrase “know how” is used that involves the unnecessary concept of “knowledge”, see Sect. 7.5.3. That is, it frequently has been stated that people “know” how to ride a bike but they often cannot verbalize that “knowledge”. However, the concept of “knowledge” is not needed in physics and only adds to the mystification of humans, see Sects. 7.5.3 and 9.4.

  5. 5.

    In fact, from a mathematical point of view, the BBA patterns affect the eigenvalues and, in doing so, the parameter ΔL. However, in some sense both point of views are equivalent, see mathematical notes in Sect. 7.8.6 and Ref. [122].

  6. 6.

    In fact, ΔL is not a parameter that is fixed by external forces like α. Nevertheless, we will refer to ΔL as parameter.

  7. 7.

    E.g., if we would change the α increments from 0.01 to 0.001 then we should increase T from 22 to 220 in order to obtain the same dynamics.

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Frank, T. (2019). Pattern Formation of Grand States. In: Determinism and Self-Organization of Human Perception and Performance. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28821-1_7

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