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Based on the innate structural preferences of ʻassociation patternsʼ, similarly as in chemical thermodynamics, there is likely a tendency to create dynamic patterns of the mind with lowest possible level of free energy reflecting feelings of ʻsatisfactionʼ and balance that likely also define preferred patterns of the brain states. In this context, it is possible to assume that mental integration and unity existing as a mental potentiality related to ʻhopeʼ and ʻmeaningʼ, could represent ʻbalancedʼ state of the mind that focuses its free energy to the external world without a conflict, which as Freud suggested in principle might be linked to ʻneural unityʼ.
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Bob, P. (2015). Consciousness and Neural Unity. In: The Brain and Conscious Unity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2700-5_3
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