{"id":245343,"date":"2026-10-14T01:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/could-meditation-reveal-an-su3-symmetry-shared-by-the-observer-and-the-universe"},"modified":"2026-10-14T01:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:51:59","slug":"could-meditation-reveal-an-su3-symmetry-shared-by-the-observer-and-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/could-meditation-reveal-an-su3-symmetry-shared-by-the-observer-and-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Could meditation reveal an SU(3) symmetry shared by the observer and the universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-meditation-reveal-an-su3-symmetry-shared-by-the-observer-and-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You sit down to meditate. A conversation returns, then thoughts. You bring your attention back to the breath. Sometimes, after many such returns, the effort eases. Thoughts lose their urgency, while awareness remains clear. Less occupies the mind, yet the moment still feels whole.<\/p>\n<p>We are interested in what makes that wholeness possible. Even an ordinary moment brings together vision, memory, bodily sensation and attention. Their contents change constantly, but they belong to one experience. What physical organization allows the brain to hold them together, and what happens to that organization when experience itself appears to stop?<\/p>\n<p>In our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1099-4300\/28\/10\/1074\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a>, \u201cA Coherence\u2013Dissipation Framework for Brain Dynamics and Consciousness,\u201d published in the journal <i>Entropy<\/i>, we approach these questions through the quantum phenomenon of superconductivity, symmetry and the balance between coherence and dissipation. We propose a mathematical structure that could be sought in neural recordings, with meditation offering a setting in which to study how the relationship between activity and experience changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You sit down to meditate. A conversation returns, then thoughts. You bring your attention back to the breath. Sometimes, after many such returns, the effort eases. Thoughts lose their urgency, while awareness remains clear. Less occupies the mind, yet the moment still feels whole. We are interested in what makes that wholeness possible. Even an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}