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Could a 40-day-long Secondary Brain Dopamine Cycle Lead to a Map of Human Temperament and a Wave Function of Consciousness?

Authors: Tariq Khan

A speculative essay, in the scientific tradition of ever more granular human behaviors falling into a reductionist paradigm, where, in addition to the previously established human behavioral patterns tracked to the annual sunlight-driven dopamine cycle, a second dopamine "clock" is proposed in the human brain. This measured cycle starts with a 10-day-long "low dopamine" phase (with various stages of impulsivity, anxiety, and depression and then the reverse as it quickly climbs back up), then a 10-day-long "high dopamine" phase (with hyperactive and manic behaviors), before diminishing to a 20-day-long "normal dopamine" phase (with calm and focus), before the cycle starts again with the "low dopamine" phase. The levels of the primary sunlight-driven cycle and the proposed secondary dopamine cycle aggregated together are considered as the only factors needed to create an annual behavioral calendar or "human temperament map." Daylight Savings Time and evolutionary fitness benefits are discussed as possible causes of the secondary dopamine cycle and its amplitude is considered as driving behaviors due to changes to (or limits to) working memory. The aggregate graph of both dopamine cycles has a striking resemblance to the quantum mechanical Schrodinger wave function leading to a speculative yet possible "wave function of consciousness."

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