The Operational Architectonics framework explains how brain and mind function by analyzing the detailed operational behavior of local neuronal assemblies and their coordinated activity as unified, metastable operational modules. These modules form a hierarchy of brain operations underlying perception, cognition, and consciousness. The methods described allow mapping the temporal structure of brain activity through EEG/MEG, revealing how functional connectivity and operational synchrony among neuronal assemblies create the dynamic, symbolic, and isomorphic relationships between brain operations and mental phenomena. This theoretical approach integrates neurocomputational and dynamical systems perspectives to understand the binding of brain operations into conscious experience.
The paper proposes that linguistic thought and brain activity can be linked through the concept of "operations." Mind Operational Semantics (OS), based on introspection and language, analyzes word meanings into elemental mental operations, with attention playing a key role. Linguistic thought forms a hierarchy of operations using "correlators" that bind together other elements called "correlata" into sentences. Brain Operational Architectonics (OA), based on EEG and MEG data, describes conscious phenomena as arising from transient, synchronized neuronal assemblies (Operational Modules) in a hierarchy of complexity. The authors hypothesize that OS's elemental operations, correlators, and correlational networks correspond to OA's Operational Modules of increasing complexity. Proposed experiments aim to verify this correspondence, suggesting an integrated continuum between brain and mind.