a transition which I venture to describe as the reduction of an initial brain state involving multiple expectancies to one of possible “basis states”, where each basis state represents the mental image of only one possible outcome of the expected alternatives (we might even call them “preferred mental states”). Note that as a corollary, the concept of probability, usually defined mathematically as the result (limit) of a specific physical operation (e.g., a series of measurements under equal conditions like tossing of dice, playing roulette), has a very subjective foundation in human brain operation.

Information and Brain Function
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Since the beginning of quantum mechanics, physicists have been arguing about whether the observer and his/her state of knowledge, even consciousness, play an active role in the quantum measurement process. However, they did not have the benefit of knowing what is known today about the neurobiological mechanisms that control human brain function.

Recent studies with functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, diffusion tensor imaging and, at the neural network level, multi-microelectrode recordings, are confirming a hypothesis long in use by neurophysicists and computer scientists, namely that the information being processed in the brain is encoded in real-time as a task-specific *spatio-temporal 