This paper elaborates on the possibility that reality, in all its forms, from energy and to matter, emerges from a condensed state of physical vacuum crossed by an omni‐pervasive electromagnetic quantum field. Moreover, given that living organisms have peculiar electromagnetic properties, paper argues that is also possible that the origin of life itself has been based on a special self‐organization of electromagnetic fields at a level of the fields or the elementary particles. If we push this metaphor even further, starting from the electromagnetic theory of consciousness, even the modeling of human cognition, such as conscious and unconscious information processing, can be still based on electromagnetism. Thus reality can be seen as like a condensed liquid crossed by electromagnetic field of waves and superposing wavelets; this medium can be abstracted, at lower and lower levels in terms of a three‐dimensional electrical lattice whose elementary cells are characterized by local permittivity and permeability values. A quantum mechanical description of said lattice is an interesting research issues. In other words, reality can be seen as emerging from self‐organization of an Electromagnetic Complex Space (ECS). A simulation tool (coupling Ising and Trasmission Line models) has been developed and some results on ECS condensation have been reported. It is also proposed to consider meta‐material (showing amazing analogies between electromagnetic properties and relativistic space‐time dynamics) as a laboratory (up to the nano‐scale) where to develop and test experimentally such ideas. Theoretical results and experiments demonstrating the ECS may have far reaching implications in several scientific and techno economical fields.

quantum physics, cognitive neuroscience, electromagnetism, emergence