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The Entangled Loop: Emotion, quantum-like interference and hierarchy in the architecture of consciousness

2026-06-07

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<p>We propose three entangled characteristics that explain the functional properties of consciousness: Emotion, quantum-like interference and hierarchy. The argument proceeds from thermodynamic first principles. Biological systems must stay far from equilibrium at minimal energy cost, and emotion is one of evolution’s heuristic solutions to this constraint. Valenced summary statistics compress the intractable deci...

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Literature Corpus work: 725ca77c-ffd5-5d7b-9ca6-bd49ad929257
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/besw9_v2

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