The wave logic of consciousness: A hypothesis

Ernest Lawrence Rossi

J. Acácio de Barros, Gary Oas

In this paper we examine some proposals to disprove the hypothesis that the interaction between mind and matter causes the collapse of the wave function, showing that such proposals are fundamentally flawed. We then describe a general experimental setup retaining the key features of the ones examined, and show that even a more general case is inadequate to disprove the mind-matter collapse hypothesis. Finally, we use our setup provided to argue that, under some reasonable assumptions about consciousness, such hypothesis is unfalsifiable.

Narendra D. Sharma

I (consciousness) am, therefore, I think. Hence, there is a direct relationship between ‘Consciousness’ and ‘Thought’. This could be better understood if a concept of ‘Field of Consciousness’ is invoked. It is conjectured that the concept of ‘Fields’, may be helpful in understanding the propagation of ‘Thoughts’ (considered as ‘Energy’), in the ‘Field of Consciousness’. If this view is acceptable, then it may be worthwhile giving a mathematical expression to this abstract phenomenon of ‘Field of Consciousness’, linking it with ‘Thoughts’. The ‘Thought Waves’ which are the energy waves, actually are the ‘Quantum Waves - the Waves of Probability’, a concept similar to one hypothesized by Schrödinger and Max born in continuation of Louis de Broglie’s hypothesis in ‘Quantum Theory’. Thought waves will have a ‘Wave Function’. For a thought to materialize, it would be necessary for the ‘Wave Function’ to collapse in one’s mind.

Evan Harris Walker

Henry Pierce Stapp

Victor Yu. Argonov

We argue that human consciousness may be a property of single electron in the brain. We suppose that each electron in the universe has at least primitive consciousness. Each electron subjectively “observes” its quantum dynamics (energy, momentum, “shape” of wave function) in the form of sensations and other mental phenomena. However, some electrons in neural cells have complex “human” consciousnesses due to complex quantum dynamics in complex organic environment. We discuss neurophysiological and physical aspects of this hypothesis and show that: (1) single chemically active electron has enough informational capacity to “contain” the richness of human subjective experience; (2) quantum states of some electrons might be directly influenced by human sensory data and have direct influence upon human behavior in real brain; (3) main physical and philosophical drawbacks of “conventional” “quantum theories of consciousness” may be solved by our hypothesis without much changes in their conceptual basis. We do not suggest any “new physics”, and our neuroscientific assumptions are similar to those used by other proponents of “quantum consciousness”. However, our hypothesis suggests radical changes in our view on human and physical reality.