Tietoisuuden tutkimus on kuuma ja ajankohtainen aihe kvanttimekaniikassa ja matematiikassa, muissa tieteissä vastaukset näyttävät olevan valmiina. Tässä vähän uutisluontoisesti Quantum Mind 2 seminaarin satoa Arizonan yliopistosta.
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Spiritual consciousness: Causality and reality. Paul Skinner (University of Arizona).
Apparently the Quantum Wave Collapse emerges from fundamental (quantum) mind and consciousness, and probability, via "mind and matter" through observation and measurement. Such a "collapse" presumably precedes matter and brain to establish an "observer created reality." Is this science or is it magic? Is this reality or is it illusion? Critical examination of this process reveals that observation and measurement may actually "collapse" the Q Wave into illusions rather than reality. This conclusion can be tested directly and verified experientially. Thus one may ask, "Is locality or non-locality reality?" Which is illusion? Which is reality?
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Stability as a criterion to detect tachyons. The matter-mind continuum: Exploring the Sankhya paradigm in Indian philosophy. Syamala Hari (Axis Staffing LLC).
Tachyons may not be hypothetical as they are often described. They may be ingredients of thought processes in the human brain although they violate causality or because they do so. If a theory which is trying to explain thought processes includes space-like states and if further, certain parameters associated with those states are observed repeatedly in experiments, then it is possible that the space-like states are indeed stable. They need not be dismissed as nonphysical because they are non-causal but may be regarded as evidence of involvement of tachyons in the observed process. Acausality of tachyons is interpreted by some researchers as the ability to convey information about the future to the objects they interact with. Interestingly, it is our experience that a person’s present actions almost always, depend upon the “desire” to be in a certain future state and therefore on the information about the future state (unlike any lifeless physical system. So tachyons in the brain might be supplying this information about the future to brain cells.
EEG is a known mechanism, which provides data indicating different psychological conditions of a human being. Interestingly, a recently developed theory relates EEG frequencies to space-like vacuum states of a Sine-Gordon equation (SG) in one dimension. In the neighborhood of space-like vacuum states, the SG approaches the Klein-Gordon equation for tachyons (KGT). This paper points out that the KGT does possess stable but non-causal solutions for small input perturbations. Therefore the observed EEG frequencies associated with the tachyonic states indeed correspond to stable solutions and may be considered as evidence of the occurence of these states in the brain.
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A model for the quantum mind. Diaa Ahmed (ITP Utrecht).
A model for the "Quantum Mind" was introduced in conjunction with the study of the "Quantum Topology", the theory of the quantum space on the basis of set theory. Some new development are based on the logical structure of the "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali", the ancient text on Yoga Psychology that describe the development of Existential states of the mind; Ones that have the nature of existence itself.
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Bioenergy detection and biofield entanglement: The role of awareness training and individual differences in absorption. Gary Schwartz (Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science, The University of Arizona), Summer Swanick, Willow Sibert, Daniel Lewis II, Sabrina Lewis, Lonnie Nelson, Shamini Jain, Laurel Mallory, Linda Foust, Kay Moore, Deboray Tussing, Iris R. Bell.
Can quantum particles such as photons and electrons become entangled through conscious intention and training? The present experiment provides observations consistent with the hypothesis that quantum entanglement, expressed between biological systems as biofield entanglement, may be inferred from behavioral measurements of bioenergy detection as a function of bioenergy awareness training and individual differences in conscious “absorption.” Twenty-seven subjects between 36 and 66 years old received a five day intensive bioenergy healing training course with Roslyn Bruyere, a distinguished biofield therapist. Fifty-six percent of the subjects were physicians in the Associate Fellowship Program of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine. The remaining subjects were nurses, psychologists, and other health-care professionals. Subjects were pre and post tested on a variety of subjective (questionnaires, including Tellegen’s Absportion Scale), behavioral (e.g. bioenergy detection), physiological, and biofield measurements (e.g. high frequency X ray and gamma ray recordings). The bioenergy detection task required that the “receivers” sit blindfolded with their hands resting on their legs and with their palms facing upwards. The “senders” sat facing the receivers. Written sheets informed the senders on each trial whether they were take their dominant hand and place it a few inches above the receivers’ left hand or right hand. The trial length was 30 seconds; the inter-trial interval was approximately 90 seconds. At the end of each trial, the senders were to say “left” or “right.” There were twenty-four trials, twelve left-and twelve-right. They were structured in blocks of four trials (two left and two right, order randomized from block to block). All subjects served as both receivers and senders. Chance detection, by definition, was 50%. We hypothesized that bioenergy detection would increase following bioenergy awareness training, especially in those subjects who scored high on Tellegen’s Absorption Scale (a self-report measure of conscious immersion in sensory, cognitive, and emotional experience). A repeated measures analysis of variance revealed a significant increase in percent bioenergy detection from pre test to post test (F=4.4247, p
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Spiritual consciousness: Causality and reality. Paul Skinner (University of Arizona).
Apparently the Quantum Wave Collapse emerges from fundamental (quantum) mind and consciousness, and probability, via "mind and matter" through observation and measurement. Such a "collapse" presumably precedes matter and brain to establish an "observer created reality." Is this science or is it magic? Is this reality or is it illusion? Critical examination of this process reveals that observation and measurement may actually "collapse" the Q Wave into illusions rather than reality. This conclusion can be tested directly and verified experientially. Thus one may ask, "Is locality or non-locality reality?" Which is illusion? Which is reality?
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Stability as a criterion to detect tachyons. The matter-mind continuum: Exploring the Sankhya paradigm in Indian philosophy. Syamala Hari (Axis Staffing LLC).
Tachyons may not be hypothetical as they are often described. They may be ingredients of thought processes in the human brain although they violate causality or because they do so. If a theory which is trying to explain thought processes includes space-like states and if further, certain parameters associated with those states are observed repeatedly in experiments, then it is possible that the space-like states are indeed stable. They need not be dismissed as nonphysical because they are non-causal but may be regarded as evidence of involvement of tachyons in the observed process. Acausality of tachyons is interpreted by some researchers as the ability to convey information about the future to the objects they interact with. Interestingly, it is our experience that a person’s present actions almost always, depend upon the “desire” to be in a certain future state and therefore on the information about the future state (unlike any lifeless physical system. So tachyons in the brain might be supplying this information about the future to brain cells.
EEG is a known mechanism, which provides data indicating different psychological conditions of a human being. Interestingly, a recently developed theory relates EEG frequencies to space-like vacuum states of a Sine-Gordon equation (SG) in one dimension. In the neighborhood of space-like vacuum states, the SG approaches the Klein-Gordon equation for tachyons (KGT). This paper points out that the KGT does possess stable but non-causal solutions for small input perturbations. Therefore the observed EEG frequencies associated with the tachyonic states indeed correspond to stable solutions and may be considered as evidence of the occurence of these states in the brain.
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A model for the quantum mind. Diaa Ahmed (ITP Utrecht).
A model for the "Quantum Mind" was introduced in conjunction with the study of the "Quantum Topology", the theory of the quantum space on the basis of set theory. Some new development are based on the logical structure of the "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali", the ancient text on Yoga Psychology that describe the development of Existential states of the mind; Ones that have the nature of existence itself.
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Bioenergy detection and biofield entanglement: The role of awareness training and individual differences in absorption. Gary Schwartz (Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science, The University of Arizona), Summer Swanick, Willow Sibert, Daniel Lewis II, Sabrina Lewis, Lonnie Nelson, Shamini Jain, Laurel Mallory, Linda Foust, Kay Moore, Deboray Tussing, Iris R. Bell.
Can quantum particles such as photons and electrons become entangled through conscious intention and training? The present experiment provides observations consistent with the hypothesis that quantum entanglement, expressed between biological systems as biofield entanglement, may be inferred from behavioral measurements of bioenergy detection as a function of bioenergy awareness training and individual differences in conscious “absorption.” Twenty-seven subjects between 36 and 66 years old received a five day intensive bioenergy healing training course with Roslyn Bruyere, a distinguished biofield therapist. Fifty-six percent of the subjects were physicians in the Associate Fellowship Program of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine. The remaining subjects were nurses, psychologists, and other health-care professionals. Subjects were pre and post tested on a variety of subjective (questionnaires, including Tellegen’s Absportion Scale), behavioral (e.g. bioenergy detection), physiological, and biofield measurements (e.g. high frequency X ray and gamma ray recordings). The bioenergy detection task required that the “receivers” sit blindfolded with their hands resting on their legs and with their palms facing upwards. The “senders” sat facing the receivers. Written sheets informed the senders on each trial whether they were take their dominant hand and place it a few inches above the receivers’ left hand or right hand. The trial length was 30 seconds; the inter-trial interval was approximately 90 seconds. At the end of each trial, the senders were to say “left” or “right.” There were twenty-four trials, twelve left-and twelve-right. They were structured in blocks of four trials (two left and two right, order randomized from block to block). All subjects served as both receivers and senders. Chance detection, by definition, was 50%. We hypothesized that bioenergy detection would increase following bioenergy awareness training, especially in those subjects who scored high on Tellegen’s Absorption Scale (a self-report measure of conscious immersion in sensory, cognitive, and emotional experience). A repeated measures analysis of variance revealed a significant increase in percent bioenergy detection from pre test to post test (F=4.4247, p
Vastaukset 4
Vanhimmat
Tuolla on niin paljon luettavaa, että en ole ehtinyt vielä läheskään kaikkea lukea ajatuksen kanssa läpi, seminaarin ohjelmasta näkee kuitenkin otsikot:
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum-mind2/program.html
Mielenkiinoiselta vaikuttavien aiheiden tiivistelmät voi sitten käydä lukemassa täällä:
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum-mind2/abstracts.html
Eniten kiinnitti huomiota uusi kvanttimekaaninen tulkinta, jonka mukaan universumi (mukaanlukien energia, aivosolut ja artifaktit kuten ajatukset ja muistikuvat) on pelkkiä ideoita ja ajatuksia, jotka tietoisuus saa aikaan.
Tämä on nyt uraauurtavaa tiedettä ja kvanttimekaniikkaa:
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Consciousnees and origin of the principles of quantum theory. Zbigniew Jacyna-Onyszkiewicz (Faculty of Physics, A.Mickiewicz University).
A new interpretation of the quantum theory is proposed, allowing an explanation of the origins of the theory principles and its mathematical formalism. In contrast to the hitherto interpretations it is based on the objective idealistic ontology in the version proposed by George Berkeley. According to Berkeley, the universe is only a dynamic, correlated and ordered sequence of ideas of a certain consiousness, showing the properties analogous to human conscionusness, communicated to the set of individual human consciousnesses. The image of the universe in Berkeley's ontology is confusing but simple, coherent and consequent. The interpretation proposed explains - in consistence with the relativity theory - the results of the correlation experiments implying that an unobserved elementary particle does not exist objectively (beyond our consiousness) or that a quantum system makes a non-divisive unity bound through non-spacetime interactions. According to this interpretation both these possibilities occur simultaneously.
en jaksanut lukea loppuun
takyoneista puhuminen menee liian pitkälle, eikä niille muillekaan väitteille ole juuri mitään todistetta, arvelua vain. Arvelu on monesti paikallaan, mutta silloin ei pidä antaa ymmärtää, että se olisi jotain enemmän.
Sanaa "illuusio" käytetään liian kevyesti.
tämä kuuluu enemmän filosofiaan.
Onhan tietoisuus aika hankalasti lähestyttävä aihe, joten pioneerihenkinen tutkimus leimataan helposti huuhaaksi...
Tässä kuitenkin suomalaisen fyysikon Paavo Pylkkäsen avauspuheenvuoro, joka aloitti koko monipäiväisen seminaarin, jossa käydään läpi evidenssiä, miksi kvanttimekaniikkaa tarvitaan tietoisuuden selittämiseen.
Biologisesta kvanttikoherenssista yms. löytyy myös paljon tutkimusta (kokeellistakin), joten aihe on kohtalaisen varmalla pohjalla, fysiikkaa eikä filosofiaa.
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Consciousness and our concept of reality. Paavo Pylkkanen (University of Skovde)
Can conscious experience be understood as a natural phenomenon, and can there be a “science of consciousness” which can be coherently related to the other sciences? A great number of researchers in different fields (e.g. philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science) have tackled this issue in recent years. Some have boldly tried to “explain consciousness” naturalistically while others have more cautiously suggested that such an explanation is beyond the reach of human cognitive capacities. But regardless of useful conceptual analysis and phenomenological description, and relevant empirical evidence about “neural correlates of consciousness”, some central aspects of conscious experience remain mysterious and unnaturalized. One response to this frustrating situation has been to say that explaining consciousness naturalistically requires a fundamental change in our general concept of reality, and not just some new specific (e.g. neurophysiological or computational) model within the old mechanistic “paradigm”.
It is well known that quantum and relativity physics also require a new concept of reality. Is it possible to develop a new overall world-view that can assimilate both conscious experience and quantum/relativistic phenomena, while containing the familiar, classical, mechanistic world as a special case? This was the long-term aim of the physicist David Bohm. This paper gives a brief overview of his research programme and uses some of the theoretical ideas to obtain a new way of looking at certain central problems in contemporary consciousness studies. The following aspects of his work will be distinguished:
1) Hidden variable / causal / ontological interpretation of quantum theory (1952), culminating in the book Undivided Universe (1993 with Basil Hiley). This interpretation is important because
a. It proved false wide-spread misunderstandings about quantum theory, such as that it is impossible to provide a hypothesis about how electrons (understood as little particles) move along trajectories and yet manage to collectively produce interference patterns (e.g. in the famous two-slit experiment).
b. More importantly for our understanding of living and mental phenomena, the ontological interpretation contains an entirely new type of energy (mathematically described by the quantum potential). The way this energy affects the particle can be understood via a new notion of active information. Bohm suggested that this kind of energy might be relevant to understanding features of living and especially mental phenomena, and explored the issue further with e.g. Hiley and Pylkkanen.
2) In the early sixties Bohm began to develop – often in discussions with Hiley - a more general conceptual framework which takes as constraints both the results of relativity and quantum theory. In particular he argued that both relativity and quantum theory challenge the “mechanistic order”, but their basic concepts directly contradict each other. We need in physics a new theory that starts from what relativity and quantum theory have in common, namely undivided wholeness. The challenge then became to develop “new notions of order” that are appropriate to describe such undivided wholeness. The most important new concept was that of implicate order, which he illustrated with e.g. the hologram. The implicate order arises from considering the meaning of quantum theory and relativity, but he claimed that it applies even more obviously in other domains such as the biological domain, and especially in cognitive processes and conscious experience. This framework provides an entirely new “paradigm” in which to try to understand the nature of conscious experience, mental processes and their relation to the underlying neurophysiological and physical processes. He presented this framework in the book Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980).
I will use some of the above theoretical ideas (which also differ from each other in some important ways) to look at the following problems:
1. The problem of mental causation, or the problem of how could mental states (as non-physical states) possibly influence the course of physical processes without, for example, violating the energy conservation laws. Bohm and Hiley’s ontological interpretation of quantum theory suggests that an entirely new kind of energy operates in situations where quantum theory is required, an energy best understood as “active information”. If mental states and their informational content can be understood as some higher-order organisation of this new “quantum potential energy” then an entirely new way of understanding mental causation, or how “mind” could affect “matter” (and vice versa) opens up.
2. The general mind-body problem. When discussing the implicate order, Bohm (1980) offers us a version of the idea that mind and body are aspects, related projections from a common ground beyond them both. He uses the well-known non-locality of quantum theory as an analogy to illustrate the “non-causal” nature of the relation of mind and body. Is there a way to reconcile this talk of “non-causal” relationship of mind and body with the apparently more causal relationship that is suggested by the active information picture? Can this view be the basis for a new, explanatorily powerful mind-body ontology?
3. The problem of time consciousness. The essence of the problem is to understand our experience of temporal objects as temporal. When I am listening to music, for example, how am I to understand the status of the sounds that I first heard a very short time ago? Bohm’s idea is that when e.g. listening to music we are directly perceiving an implicate order. Is it possible to develop a satisfactory theory of time consciousness with the help of the concept of implicate order?
Seminaarin aloitusta, Paavo Pylkkanen Why quantum physics may be required to explain consciousness, ei löydy...
Tuohon äsköiseen tuli seminaarin lopetussanat, jotka ovat myös samalta suomalaisfyysikolta peräisin.