Quantum physics and the philosophy of medicine.

G Giehm

Pedro Bullón

Menas C. Kafatos, Keun‐Hang Susan Yang

The existence of universal principles in both science and medicine implies that one can explore their common applicability. Here we explore what we have learned from quantum mechanics, phenomena such as entanglement and nonlocality, the role of participation of the observer, and how these may apply to oriental medicine. The universal principles of integrated polarity, recursion, and creative interactivity apply to all levels of existence and all human activities, including healing and medicine. This review examines the possibility that what we have learned from quantum mechanics may provide clues to better understand the operational principles of oriental medicine in an integrated way. Common to both is the assertion that Consciousness is at the foundation of the universe and the inner core of all human beings. This view goes beyond both science and medicine and has strong philosophical foundations in Western philosophy as well as monistic systems of the East.

Sidney Roston

Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, Nino Zanghı̀

Dino Karabeg

As part of Symposium of Quantum-Informational Medicine QIM 2011 (www.qim2011.org), a one-day round table Knowledge Federation Dialog Belgrade 2011: Partial & Holistic-Oriented Approaches is planned for September 25. This round table will provide an opportunity for critical consideration of partial and holistic-oriented approaches to physics and engineering, medicine and biology, psychology and transpersonal phenomena, art and philosophy, society and religion. The paradigm of quantum physics enables us to broaden our foundation for truth and worldview - and explain and include phenomena and insights that have hitherto been ignored or denied, because they did not fit into the classical (in many aspects mechanistic) scientific paradigm. When we do that, we come closer to a more inclusive or holistic view which can lead to a profound or 'paradigmatic' change in any field, and in our society at large. The observation that the insights reached in quantum physics point us towards a more inclusive or holistic worldview has been voiced by many authors, notably by Heisenberg in Physics and Philosophy. The fact that those insights are so slow to propagate into other disciplines and to influence general culture may be attributed to the lack of communication across and beyond disciplines. Knowledge Federation is an international project whose goal is to develop remedial knowledge-work practices - by federating key insights across disciplines, and to media and popular culture. In the Knowledge Federation Dialog we share holistic insights from a variety of disciplines to a round table, let them synergize with one another and become general insights; and we allow those general insights, and our dialog, to spread through the media and include general public.