The Wave Packet: An Action Potential For The 21st Century (2003)
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@MISC{Freeman03thewave,
author = {Walter J. Freeman},
title = {The Wave Packet: An Action Potential For The 21st Century},
year = {2003}
}
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Abstract
prediction is made for clinical testing that wave packets are precursor to states of awareness. They are not by themselves accessible to experience, as may be the macroscopic states initiated by global state transitions. Keywords: EEG; meaning; mesoscopic neurodynamics; phase cone; state transition; wave packet. 1. Introduction Brain systems operate on many levels of organization, each with its own scales of time and space. Dynamics applies to every level from the atomic to the molecular, and from macromolecular organelles to the neurons that incorporate them. In turn neurons form populations, these form the subassemblies in brains, and so on to embodied brains interacting intentionally with material, interpersonal, and social environments. Each level is macroscopic to that below it and microscopic to that above it. Among the most di#cult tasks scientists face are those of conceiving and describing the exchanges between levels, seeing that the measures of time 3 and distance ar







