Self-referential processing as the biological switch between classical and quantum functioning of the brain
Jack A. Tuszynski
Dual-process theory of the brain distinguishes fast, parallel, late-commitment cognition (System 1) from slow, sequential, early-commitment cognition (System 2), yet lacks a mechanistic explanation for how these modes operate or how the brain switches between them. Quantum cognition research demonstrates that human decision-making follows quantum probability models under low confidence and classical Markov models under high confidence, suggesting a hybrid architecture where decoherence drives tr