Resonant Symbolism and the Conscious Field

by Tom Yaxley

This paper proposes a hypothesis that emotional resonance experienced through music and symbolic imagery may function analogously to processes in quantum mechanics and neuroscience. It explores how individuals, through internal emotional states and repeated symbolic exposure, can “collapse” multiple potential meanings into personally significant experiences—guided not solely by cognition, but through an ongoing interaction with an emergent field of meaning. This hypothesis blends concepts from quantum theory, affective neuroscience, and symbolic cognition to explain a lived process of internal navigation through symbolic resonance.

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