Iris Color and Color Perception, the “Photon” and Quantum Physics

Michel Berthier, Edoardo Provenzi

Jonito Aerts Arguëlles

Isayeva Elmira

IHSIEN CHOU

This paper proposes a unified framework—“color syntax”—that interprets color as a projection of quantum structure into perceptual and symbolic domains. Drawing from quantum mechanics, particularly the energy quantization of photons (E = h·ν), we show how discrete energy transitions manifest as visible color. Using hydrogen spectral lines as a foundational case, we explore how color encodes quantum information, and how the limit h → 0 corresponds to the collapse of syntactic structure into classical continuity. The framework bridges physics, perception, and meaning, offering a model for interpreting color as both physical signal and semantic unit. Why Color Is More Than Appearance Color is often treated as a surface phenomenon—an aesthetic or sensory effect. Yet beneath its visual immediacy lies a precise physical origin: the quantized energy of photons. This paper argues that color can be understood as a syntactic unit within a broader quantum language. Just as phonemes form words, and words form meaning, discrete wavelengths form perceptual and symbolic structures. We call this framework the “syntax of color.”

IHSIEN CHOU

This paper explores how quantized energy in Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) can be translated into perceivable color through wavelength transformation, forming a semantic representation of quantum syntax. Additionally, we analyze novel quantum transport mechanisms enabled by triplet exciton condensation and their complementary relationship with traditional photon-based mechanisms. By integrating SQUID energy level structures, photon coupling frequencies, interference patterns, and color mappings, we propose a quantum grammar framework that bridges physics, language, and perception, discussing its applications in quantum visualization, bio-quantum interfaces, and future quantum computing architectures. Keywords: SQUID, Quantum Grammar, Color Semantics, Triplet Excitons, Quantum Transport, Quantum Visualization

Andrei Yu. Khrennikov

Quantum measurement theory is applied to quantum-like modeling of coherent generation of perceptions and emotions and generally for emotional coloring of conscious experiences. In quantum theory, a system should be separated from an observer. The brain performs self-measurements. To model them, we split the brain into two subsystems, unconsciousness and consciousness. They correspond to a system and an observer. The states of perceptions and emotions are described through the tensor product decomposition of the unconscious state space; similarly, there are two classes of observables, for conscious experiencing of perceptions and emotions, respectively. Emotional coloring is coupled to quantum contextuality: emotional observables determine contexts. Such contextualization reduces degeneration of unconscious states. The quantum-like approach should be distinguished from consideration of the genuine quantum physical processes in the brain (cf. Penrose and Hameroff). In our approach the brain is a macroscopic system which information processing can be described by the formalism of quantum theory. The paper is concluded with experimental test of contextual emotional coloring of conscious experiences based on Bell type inequalities which are treated in the contextual framework.