Quantum field theory and the linguistic Minimalist Program: a remarkable isomorphism

Toward a Unified View of Cognitive and Biochemical Activity: Meditation and Linguistic Self-Reconstructing May Lead to Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Improvement

“…Any event or situation judged as “stressful” then introduces more or less severe perturbations unbalancing the energy flow between the self and the Double and it is not surprising that these unbalancing perturbations affect the words of the language through which the dialogue between the self and its Double is realized. We see that all of this is a strict consequence of the open (i.e., dissipative) character of the brain dynamics, which supports the thesis of the immanence of some of the linguistic structures to the brain physical dynamical processes (by resorting to results in Chomsky’s Minimalist Program (MP) [ 12 , 13 ], it has been shown [ 9 , 10 , 11 ] that specific linguistic features admit a representation in terms of the algebraic formalism used in the formulation of the dissipative quantum model of the brain [ 44 , 45 , 46 ]).…”

“…As discussed elsewhere [ 9 , 10 , 11 ], the conceptual linguistic content (meaning) then emerges in a dynamical process going from the syntactic level of lexical elements to the semantic level of the “manifold of concepts” (called in the MP, the set of Logical Forms (LF) [ 56 ]). The mathematical formalism describing such a process has been shown [ 9 , 10 , 11 ] to be isomorph to the one describing in condensed matter physics the formation of coherent states starting from elementary components. In the jargon of the MP, this is expressed by saying that the Narrow Syntax makes contact at the interfaces with the conceptual interpretative (CI) system.…”

“…The collective dynamics is due to long-range neuronal correlations whose dynamical generation is triggered by the perceptual inputs (and maybe heart inputs [ 57 , 58 ]). On the linguistic side, the picture which emerges is that coherent waves spanning lexical components are at the basis of the concept’s generation [ 9 , 10 , 11 ]. Concepts are thus not specifically associated with individual lexical components.…”

“…Coherence also ensures the stability of the semantic content and corresponds to the minimization of free energy [ 9 , 10 , 11 ]. The language changes detected by us by means of the LIWC software analysis thus go beyond mere changes in the statistics of the elementary language components of the patient under study.…”

“…The subject reacts to the perceptual inputs through the brain’s action-perception cycle and his emotions and behaviors are generated [ 6 ]. Although this dynamical integration process is still not fully understood and under study, it appears that language plays a relevant role in it [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ].…”