https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-025-01875-7
Regular Article
The motionable mind: How physics (dynamics) and life (movement) go(t) together—On boundary conditions and order parameter fluctuations in Coordination Dynamics
1
Center for Complex Systems, Human Brain and Behavior Laboratory (HBBL), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
2
Institute for the Augmented Human, University of Bath, Bath, UK
3
Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Ulster University, Derry~Londonderry, UK
Received:
4
June
2025
Accepted:
30
July
2025
Published online:
11
September
2025
This tribute to Hermann Haken, the great theoretical physicist, explores the idea—based on a reconsideration of the experiments that led to the HKB model—that intentions (an emergent ‘mental force’) are hidden~exposed in order parameter fluctuations that arise due to special boundary conditions or rate-independent constraints on the basic coordination dynamics of human brain and behavior.
The term “motionable mind” is taken from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) titled “The Wreck of the Deutschland”.
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