title: Consciousness and synchronicity.
abstract: The brain is described as a system whose states are subject to quantum uncertainty. Conscious observation brings individual states into being from the multiple states possible at a given instant. This gives rise to information, which is the content of consciousness. Synchronicity is the principle by which a single state is generated by conscious observation throughout the brain at a given instant. It is the equivalent of the non-local interaction in quantum theory. Both psychodynamic and cognitive applications of the proposed model are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06508.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Germine
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009482:Neurophysiology; D011599:Psychopathology; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013997:Time Factors; D014474:Unconsciousness