According to Henry Stapp, classical mechanics is not capable of integrating consciousness into science is manifest. Classical mechanics is an expression of Decartes's idea that nature is divided into two logically unrelated and noninteracting parts: mind and matter..." On the other hand, Stapp and other physicists have suggested tha consciousness may depend upon the capacity of the brain to assume, in some way, the quantum characteristics of condensed phases, as it happens to super conductors and laser rays. But, what is a condensed phase ? The word "phase" means a "stage" of any material system, in which one considers the degree of alignment ( ordering) of its components. As the degree of alignment increases, the phase becomes more and more condensed. When the most possible alignment stage is reached, the phase is denominated Bose/Einstein condensation. *

* - The word "bose" originates from "bosons", sub-atomic particles, like photons, associated to field forces. Because they promote the most possible alignment (aggregation) among the parts of a system, they facilitate the conservation ( condensation) of energy within the system.

FIG.4 - Não submetidas à ação da corrente eletromagnética, as agulhas das bússolas sob blindagem apontam, aleatoriamente para todos os lados. Sob a influência da corrente, elas se alinham, apontando numa só direção.

Let us take a very simple, but didactic, example : Several compasses are disposed on a table, inside a room surrounded by a magnetic blindage. Because they are "blocked" by the blindage, their needles point, at random, to several different directions. Now, by using an electromagnetic cable, one increases the electromagnetic energy of the compasses, then the needles, very slowly, tend to become aligned. When the intensity of the electromagnetic force, flowing through the cable, reaches a certain magnitude, the compasses start to behave like a single one, with their needles pointing to only one direction ( that of the north pole). They have entered a stage of condensed phase.

Lut us return to the example of the super conductors. Well, they only act, properly, under extreme low temperatures, while our brain works at body temperature level. Therefore, if the physics pf condensed phases has any thing to do with cerebral properties, like consciousness, for instance, then it has to be some mechanism of this type, capable to function under normal body temperature. And, in reality, there is one : The so-called Frohlich effect, found in some biological tissues, seems to satisfy the necessary criteria.

Herbert Frohlich, one of the great pioneers in superstate physics, described a model of a system of coupled molecular oscillators in a heat bath, supplied with energy at a constant rate. When this rate exceeds a certain threshold, then a condensation of the whole system of oscillators takes place into one giant dipole mode, similar to a Bose-Einstein condensate, and a coherent, nonlocal order emerges in the system. The crucial distinguishing feature of Bose-Einstein condensates is that the many parts that go to make up an ordered system, not only behave as a whole, they become a whole; their identities merge or overlap in such a way that they lose their individuality, entirely. A good analogy would be the many voices of a choir which, at certain levels of harmony. merge to become "one single voice". Herbert Frohlich, one of the great pioneers in superstate physics, described a model of a system of coupled molecular oscillators in a heat bath, supplied with energy at a constant rate. When this rate exceeds a certain threshold, then a condensation of the whole system of oscillators takes place into one giant dipole mode, similar to a Bose-Einstein condensate, and a coherent, nonlocal order emerges in the system. The crucial distinguishing feature of Bose-Einstein condensates is that the many parts that go to make up an ordered system, not only behave as a whole, they become a whole; their identities merge or overlap in such a way that they lose their individuality, entirely. A good analogy would be the many voices of a choir which, at certain levels of harmony. merge to become "one single voice".

A característica essencial deste condensado reside no fato de que as diversas partes do sistema ordenado, não só se comportam como um todo, mas também se tornam um todo : suas identidades se fundem de tal forma, que cada uma das partes perde a própria individualidade. Uma boa analogia, seria a das muitas vozes de um coral, que se fundem para, em determinados níveis de harmonia, dar lugar à "uma única voz".