Aug 2026· Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Abstract
This paper introduces a rigorous mathematical framework named Sonic Cognition and Sensory Kinematics, bridging continuous cosmic/neural background fields with localized biophysical velocity responses. We define two infinite, unbounded coordinators—Sonic Light (\(SL\)) governing visual fields and Sonic Motion (\(SM\)) governing kinetics—which project into the tangible world as finite, localized agents (\(LS\) and \(MS\)) through discretization field operators. Focusing on vision-kinetic coupling during interactive physical events (e.g., a ball player tracking and striking a target), we formulate a coupled kinematic differential equation where mechanical motor velocity (\(\mathbf{v}_{MS}\)) accelerates proportionally to incoming visual information velocity (\(\mathbf{v}_{LS}\)), modulated by a central neural transfer tensor (\(\mathbf{T}_{brain}\)) and biological damping (\(\gamma \)). To map the temporal duality of human consciousness, we formalize the global Electro-Magnetic Biological (\(EMB\)) state using a time-dependent circadian switch matrix (\(\theta(t)\)). During the nighttime dream state (\(\theta(t) = 0\)), a strict boundary condition enforces total somatic motor disconnection (\(\mathbf{v}_{MS\_real} = \mathbf{0}\)), while the brain reconstructs an informational, virtual visual velocity (\(\mathbf{v}_{dream}\)) governed by non-linear memory diffusion equations. Numerical Python simulations of this complex dynamical system confirm a clean state transition at sleep onset, characterized by an instantaneous collapse of physical velocity alongside a computational spike and subsequent relaxation of virtual dream velocity. Finally, the framework applies this temporal integration to congenital blindness, proving analytically why a structural lack of lifetime visual source tokens results in an absolute zero value for visual dream vectors.
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