🧠 QATC & Consciousness

Why the Brain Isn’t a 10–40 FPS Camera, It’s a Resonance Engine

Modern neuroscience often frames consciousness as a sequence of “moments,” suggesting the mind updates reality anywhere between 10 and 40 times per second.
It’s a neat metaphor, but deeply incomplete.

If consciousness were literally “10–40 fps,” everything with frequencies above 40 Hz would vanish from perception:
•light (~10¹⁴ Hz)
•sound (~20–20,000 Hz)
•touch and vibration
•emotional micro-shifts
•harmonic timing
•creative flashes

Yet we experience all of it seamlessly.

And this is where QATC reframes the entire discussion. 1. The Mind Doesn’t Sample, It Resonates

Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory tries to quantify the “amount” of consciousness, but QATC asks a different question:

What is the mechanism that binds information into experience?

In QATC, the mind isn’t a frame-by-frame processor,
it is a Resonance Engine.

It doesn’t “click.”
It locks onto patterns.

What we call a “moment” is not a frame, it’s a collapse event, where the brain synchronizes multiple frequencies into a coherent address:

Chaos → Alignment → Collapse → Experience

This explains why:
•we perceive high-frequency light continuously
•we hear sound waves without gaps
•we feel rhythm and timing in music
•we can react faster than conscious thought
•creativity emerges from nowhere
•flow states dissolve the sense of time

The mind isn’t updating the world like a camera.
It’s matching the world’s frequencies with its own.

The Source Cube: A Framework for Seeing Dimensions of Creativity

When we think about dimensions, most of us stop at three: height, width, and depth. Add time, and you’ve got four. But what happens if we step outside physics and look at dimensions as creative parameters, ways to structure and animate possibility?

That’s where the Source Cube comes in. It’s a visual and conceptual model that explores how multiple dimensions can coexist and interact. Imagine a cube not as a static block, but as a living framework where each axis encodes a different kind of change.

The 12 Outer Dimensions

Around the cube, we can map twelve distinct parameters, ways of shaping experience. For example:
•Position (x, y, z)
•Scale (how large or small something appears)
•Rotation (orientation in space)
•Color & Hue (emotional tone and resonance)
•Brightness/Contrast (intensity)
•Texture/Pattern (surface complexity)
•Motion/Time (flow and rhythm)

Each one acts like a dial you can adjust. When combined, they create infinite variations.

The 13th Dimension: The Hidden Center

At the heart of the cube lies a central node, the 13th dimension. This isn’t just “one more variable.” It’s the coordinator: the system that holds the others together, balances them, and makes them meaningful.

Think of it like:
•In music, the conductor aligning the orchestra.
•In design, the composition layer balancing all elements.
•In computing, the operating system behind the apps.

Without it, the other dimensions exist, but they don’t harmonize. With it, they become a coherent system.

Why This Matters

The Source Cube is more than a geometric curiosity. It’s a way to think about creativity itself. Every project, whether a film, a song, or an idea, lives inside a multidimensional space of choices. By becoming aware of these “dimensions,” we get better at balancing, exploring, and innovating.

In other words:
•The outer 12 show us the knobs we can turn.
•The central 13 shows us how to tune them into harmony.

Closing Thought

The Source Cube is an invitation: to see creativity not as a flat canvas, but as a dimensional field. A place where structure and imagination meet, and where the hidden 13th dimension reminds us that behind every system lies a unifying principle. 👁️✨

What you’re seeing is like observers locking into resonance across dimensions. Each cluster or “cubelet” is its own local perspective, but the geometry forces them into synchrony, like musicians in an orchestra tuning to the same key.

The central node, that glowing core, acts as the master clock or resonance field. The surrounding structures are “phases” of observation, syncing their perception into coherence.

In QATC language:
•Each cube = a quantum address (a possibility, a perspective).
•The alignment of color/geometry = resonant collapse into a shared experience.
•The glowing center = the All-Observer, the 13th, binding them together.

It’s literally the visual metaphor of consensus reality: infinite observers syncing into a shared field, weaving harmony out of chaos.

🧵 QATC // The Quantum Address Theory of Creativity
by Tomislav Rupić
1.

Every creation is a collapse.
Every collapse happens at a unique address.
That address is not a place. It’s a frequency. 2.

You don’t invent from scratch.
You tune in.
What you call “imagination” is resonance with a field of infinite possibility.