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Quantum Cognition Fatigue and Dysfunction

Authors: Fryson, Dion;

Quantum Cognition Fatigue and Dysfunction

Abstract

The contemporary cognitive landscape confronts us with an unprecedented density of information and demand, precipitating a crisis that reaches beyond conventional definitions of stress or burnout. Individuals navigating high-information environments increasingly report a phenomenology of exhaustion that is not merely physiological but existential—a pervasive inability to focus, coupled with a sense of displacement from their own volitional centers. Traditional psychological models, which typically frame stress as homeostatic imbalance or resource depletion, cannot fully account for the structural degradation of agency observed in these states. This paper argues that these phenomena are best understood through the theoretical lens of the Quantum Mindfulness framework. We examine the concept of "Cognitive Resolution"—the mechanism by which the mind collapses a superposed field of potential thoughts and perceptions into determinate mental states. The current crisis of "overwhelm" is, at its core, a dysfunction of this resolution process.

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