13 May 2026

BM‑Science researchers published a new chapter "Cracking the Brain Code to Unveil the Mystery of Consciousness" in the Springer Nature volume Cognitive Phase Transitions in the Cerebral Cortex – Enhancing the Neuron Doctrine by Modeling Neural Fields.

Inspired by the pioneering work of Walter J. Freeman and Robert Kozma, the authors explore how the human brain — the seat of cognition, personality, and selfhood — generates the rich stream of thought, creativity, and experience that defines human life.

The chapter offers a concise overview of the structural organization and dynamics of brain electrophysiological activity, examining how principles such as mass action and metastable cinematic frames illuminate the functional architecture of the brain–mind system.

Building on these foundations, the authors show how these insights support the Operational Architectonics (OA) framework, which models cognition as nested, transient neuronal assemblies and their associated local electromagnetic fields. This nested “cinematic” organization provides a mechanistic bridge between neural activity and the emergence of conscious experience.

Within this framework, the hierarchy of subjective phenomena — from simple perceptual features to complex experiential scenes — corresponds to a hierarchy of operational electromagnetic fields generated by transient neuronal assemblies. These dynamics are most effectively captured using EEG and quantitative EEG (qEEG), which reveal structure invisible to visual inspection alone.