Appendix 1

Understanding Cognitive-
Neurodynamic States,
Experiences, and
Cognitive Phenomena
CONTENTS

Examples of States, Experiences, and Phenomena Characterized

by a Fundamental System or Subsystem Phase Transition
from Pattern (Order) to Entropy (Disorder)
Examples of States, Experiences, and Phenomena Characterized
by a Fundamental System or Subsystem Phase Transition
from Entropy (Disorder) to Pattern (Order)

EXAMPLES OF STATES, EXPERIENCES, AND

PHENOMENA CHARACTERIZED BY A FUNDAMENTAL
SYSTEM OR SUBSYSTEM PHASE TRANSITION FROM
PATTERN (ORDER) TO ENTROPY (DISORDER)

Cleaving: Creativity, dissociative identity disorder

Confusion, disorientation, dizziness, going “blank,” forgetting
Vague speech
Relaxation, flow, fluidity, flexibility
Hypnotic trance, meditation, hallucination
Feeling fractionated, conflicting parts, indecisive, hesitant
REM stage sleep, dreaming
Interruption, illness
Macroscopic stillness
Temperature equilibrium between bodily regions
Clinical depression, psychotic behavior
Electroconvulsive therapy

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 Sensory deprivation, sensory overload, conflicting information patterns
Catatonia, catalepsy
Death

EXAMPLES OF STATES, EXPERIENCES, AND

PHENOMENA CHARACTERIZED BY A FUNDAMENTAL
SYSTEM OR SUBSYSTEM PHASE TRANSITION FROM
ENTROPY (DISORDER) TO PATTERN (ORDER)

Incorporation: Reading, television, and learning

Replication: Memory, remembering
Recombining: Mathematics, painting, sculpting, understanding, building,
designing, decorating, and developing
Transmitting: Talking, teaching, singing, and making conversation
Distinction memes, strategy memes, association memes
Behavioral predictability, event predictability
Playing video games
Stress, inflexibility, stuck, rut
Rhythm, poetry, music, dance (incorporating, replicating, or transmitting)
Sports, exercise, hobbies
Macroscopic sequential movement
Identity, personality, habits, beliefs, traditions
Asymmetrical body temperature
Obsessive-compulsive thought or behavior, neurotic behavior
Feeling integrated, whole
Healing

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