Consciousness via MIPT?
arXiv Preprint Archive June 5, 2025 via arXiv
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractA measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT), where competition between unitary evolution and measurements drives a system between entangled and disentangled phases, is conjectured to play a key role in cognitive networks and the formation of consciousness during the newborn-adult transition. The authors propose a probe-target picture for the brain, interpreting MIPT as a learnability transition in the mental part of the target, where sites in cognitive networks of semantic memory are concepts. A comparison is made with synchronization phase transitions in the probe.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Q-bio.nc Cond-mat.dis-nn Cond-mat.stat-mech |
| Key finding | Measurement-induced phase transitions may underlie learnability transitions in cognitive networks and the formation of consciousness. |
Abstract
The measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) is a recently formulated phenomenon in out-of-equilibrium systems. The competition between unitary evolutions and measurement-induced non-unitaries leads to the transition between the entangled and disentangled phases at some critical measurement rate. We conjecture that self-organized MIPT plays a key role in the generative model of cognitive networks and the formation of the state of consciousness in the "newborn-adult" transition. To this aim, we formulate the probe-target picture for the brain and suggest that MIPT interpreted as learnability transition takes place in the mental part of the target where the sites in the cognitive networks of semantic memory are concepts. Comparison with the synchronization phase transitions in the probe is made.