R. B. Laughlin* and David Pines†‡§
"For better or worse we are now witnessing a transition from the science of the past, so intimately linked to reductionism, to the study of complex adaptive matter, firmly based in experiment, with its hope for providing a jumping-off point for new discoveries, new concepts, and new wisdom."
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/cmp-workshop/Forms/laughlinpines.pdf
Giuseppe Vitiello has been working with W. J. Freeman to relate the properties of many-body systems to cognition.
http://www.archive.org/details/Redwood_Center_2007_01_23_Giuseppe_Vitiello
Here is a paper on possible relationships between quantum theory, symmetry breaking, and chaotic classical Hamiltonians: