NETWORK understands cognitive dissonance not as an exceptional state, but as an inherent property of neuronal information processing. What we perceive as coherent thought emerges from the continuous coordination of parallel, partially incompatible, and temporally displaced processes.

By translating these processes into sound — signal transmission, temporal divergence, prediction, and alignment — the piece investigates the conditions under which coherence can arise at all. Cognitive dissonance appears here not as a malfunction, but as an ongoing mechanism of conflict minimization within a dynamic system.

„The brain is a conflict-minimizing machine.“