Abstract
Perception is an irreversible ordering process developing in our mind. During perception, the mind, driven by curiosity and attention, interiorizes the proposed image and controls it.
The interiorized image evolves from a balanced “symmetric” state to an unbalanced, ordered one, from a meaningless structure to thought or visual thinking, through a nonequilibrium dynamic instability. At the critical point of this instability symmetry and order join and coexist ambiguously.
A fluctuation and it is catastrophe: a symmetry breaking occurs, as one can visually realize at the onset of reversions during the dynamic perception of a bistable ambiguous figure.
In this contribution a qualitative model of perception is presented, based on synergetics and quantum mechanics. An attempt is made to throw light on the computational activity performed unconsciously by the brain during the visual thinking.
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Caglioti, G. (1996). From perception to thought. In: Ogawa, T., Miura, K., Masunari, T., Nagy, D. (eds) Katachi ∪ Symmetry. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68407-7_42
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