Consciousness via MIPT?

TL;DR

This paper explores the hypothesis that measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPT) are fundamental to understanding consciousness, proposing a model where MIPT influences cognitive network formation and the transition from newborn to adult consciousness.

Contribution

It introduces a novel conjecture linking MIPT to consciousness development and formulates a brain model based on probe-target interactions and learnability transitions.

Findings

MIPT may underlie cognitive network organization.

A probe-target framework for brain dynamics is proposed.

Comparison with synchronization transitions offers new insights.

Abstract

The measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) is a recently formulated phenomenon in out-of-equilibrium systems. The competition between unitary evolutions and measurement-induced non-unitaries leads to the transition between the entangled and disentangled phases at some critical measurement rate. We conjecture that self-organized MIPT plays a key role in the generative model of cognitive networks and the formation of the state of consciousness in the "newborn-adult" transition. To this aim, we formulate the probe-target picture for the brain and suggest that MIPT interpreted as learnability transition takes place in the mental part of the target where the sites in the cognitive networks of semantic memory are concepts. Comparison with the synchronization phase transitions in the probe is made.