Quantum-Inspired and Non-Classical Approaches to Consciousness: Models, Evidence and Constraints.
Brain Sci March 31, 2026 Oscar Arias-Carrión, Emmanuel Ortega-Robles, Elías Manjarrez
Consciousness presents a structural puzzle: a unified, context-sensitive, globally integrated mode of experience emerging from distributed neural dynamics. While classical neuroscience has mapped synaptic, oscillatory, and network-level mechanisms with increasing precision, debate persists as to whether classical formalisms fully capture the integrative and contextual features of conscious...