In this paper, the author builds on ideas about a quantum approach to anorexia nervosa developed in a previous paper. A basic equation demonstrating the role of probability amplitudes relating to the answers to the question ‘am I fat?’ is proposed, and mechanisms by which these abstract amplitudes might relate to the physiology and biology of the human brain are discussed. In particular, it is suggested that the probability amplitudes for the abstract states ‘fat’ and ‘not fat’ might relate physically to the superposition of tubulin orientations in cytoskeletal microtubules (as suggested by the Penrose-Hameroff Orchestrated Objective Reduction), and that the question ‘am I fat?’ might arise in the threat-detection mechanisms of the amygdala.

orchestrated objective reduction, anorexia nervosa