On the sheep-goat effect as the manifestation of phase-dependent mind-matter modulation: A hypothesis

The sheep-goat effect cannot be explained without considering mind of specific states. This work speculates mind-matter interaction, as was inferred by many including Erwin Schrödinger, for entertaining analytically-flavored “phenomenological” interpretation of the sheep-goat effect. A fundamental construct of this theory is the operation of mind-matter events in a spatial-temporal-attentional domain, which reduces to the spatial-temporal domain wherein purely objective events are registered, at the vanishing of the effect of attention. Time-dependent Schrodinger’s equation is then treated as a lower-dimensional case of a higher-dimensional mind-matter-event equation elaborated in the spatial-temporal-attentional complex. The domain-coupling when modulated by the phase difference between the temporal and attentional dimensions, can enhance or inhibit the deviation of the event registration in the spatial-temporal domain from its baseline probability. The outcome is akin the sheep-goat effect.