Defined by enigmatic phenomena such as superposition, uncertainty, and entanglement, the quantum world represents the foundational reality beneath the perceivably deterministic classical environment. Despite our experiential interaction with the tangible classical world, it is crucial to acknowledge the elusive nature of the underlying quantum framework. This paper explores the ramifications of these quantum characteristics in management science. Even the seemingly straightforward concept of matter transforms into a complex puzzle at the quantum scale. The propensity of subatomic particles to switch between wave and particle states underscores the integral role of observation and consciousness. Quantum entities, rather than being merely passive objects of measurement, dynamically participate in the observation process, hence generating a paradox that contradicts traditional notions of objective reality. Traditionally, management science is grounded in the predictability of the classical world. However, these deterministic relationships and observable causality do not readily align with the quantum domain, where a probabilistic framework supersedes certain outcomes. The inherent uncertainties of quantum interactivity and the multitude of possibilities present a largely untapped potential for strategic management. This paper introduces Quantum Mind-Induced Subjective Realism (QMISR), amalgamating quantum principles with management science, advocating for a transition from classical predictability to acceptance of quantum uncertainties. This innovative view on reality and cognition postulates that the interaction between a quantum mind and the external world forms our subjective reality experience. Recognising both classical and quantum realities is emphasised to enhance management practices and foster creative pathways for decision-making processes. Primarily, this paper investigates quantum realities and their possible implications for management science. It calls for a shift from a deterministic, tangible classical world to an intricate, probabilistic quantum domain, potentially transforming traditional management science theories and practices.
Defined by enigmatic phenomena such as superposition, uncertainty, and entanglement, the quantum world represents the foundational reality beneath the perceivably deterministic classical environment. Despite our experiential interaction with the tangible classical world, it is crucial to acknowledge the elusive nature of the underlying quantum framework. This paper explores the ramifications of these quantum characteristics in management science. Even the seemingly straightforward concept of matter transforms into a complex puzzle at the quantum scale. The propensity of subatomic particles to switch between wave and particle states underscores the integral role of observation and consciousness. Quantum entities, rather than being merely passive objects of measurement, dynamically participate in the observation process, hence generating a paradox that contradicts traditional notions of objective reality. Traditionally, management science is grounded in the predictability of the classical world. However, these deterministic relationships and observable causality do not readily align with the quantum domain, where a probabilistic framework supersedes certain outcomes. The inherent uncertainties of quantum interactivity and the multitude of possibilities present a largely untapped potential for strategic management. This paper introduces Quantum Mind-Induced Subjective Realism (QMISR), amalgamating quantum principles with management science, advocating for a transition from classical predictability to acceptance of quantum uncertainties. This innovative view on reality and cognition postulates that the interaction between a quantum mind and the external world forms our subjective reality experience. Recognising both classical and quantum realities is emphasised to enhance management practices and foster creative pathways for decision-making processes. Primarily, this paper investigates quantum realities and their possible implications for management science. It calls for a shift from a deterministic, tangible classical world to an intricate, probabilistic quantum domain, potentially transforming traditional management science theories and practices.
Defined by enigmatic phenomena such as superposition, uncertainty, and entanglement, the quantum world represents the foundational reality beneath the perceivably deterministic classical environment. Despite our experiential interaction with the tangible classical world, it is crucial to acknowledge the elusive nature of the underlying quantum framework. This paper explores the ramifications of these quantum characteristics in management science. Even the seemingly straightforward concept of matter transforms into a complex puzzle at the quantum scale. The propensity of subatomic particles to switch between wave and particle states underscores the integral role of observation and consciousness. Quantum entities, rather than being merely passive objects of measurement, dynamically participate in the observation process, hence generating a paradox that contradicts traditional notions of objective reality. Traditionally, management science is grounded in the predictability of the classical world. However, these deterministic relationships and observable causality do not readily align with the quantum domain, where a probabilistic framework supersedes certain outcomes. The inherent uncertainties of quantum interactivity and the multitude of possibilities present a largely untapped potential for strategic management. This paper introduces Quantum Mind-Induced Subjective Realism (QMISR), amalgamating quantum principles with management science, advocating for a transition from classical predictability to acceptance of quantum uncertainties. This innovative view on reality and cognition postulates that the interaction between a quantum mind and the external world forms our subjective reality experience. Recognising both classical and quantum realities is emphasised to enhance management practices and foster creative pathways for decision-making processes. Primarily, this paper investigates quantum realities and their possible implications for management science. It calls for a shift from a deterministic, tangible classical world to an intricate, probabilistic quantum domain, potentially transforming traditional management science theories and practices.
The study of consciousness and subjective experience represents one of the most intricate frontiers in contemporary philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. For decades, dominant paradigms have characterized the mind through two reductive lenses: as a passive receptor of sensory data or as a computational system processing information through fixed algorithmic operations. While useful in specific contexts, these models consistently fail to capture the dynamic, participatory nature of conscious experience—the recursive relationship between awareness and reality construction. Recent theoretical developments challenge these frameworks by integrating diverse conceptual domains: quantum mechanics metaphors, classical mindfulness traditions, and cognitive behavioral theory. These emerging approaches propose a fundamentally transformative role for the observer, suggesting consciousness does not merely witness reality but actively participates in shaping it.
Most interpretations of quantum theory fail to provide a fundamental, complete, self-consistent account of nature describing physical reality itself, as opposed to merely yielding predictions about results of experiments and observations. A paradigm providing a self-consistent foundation for quantum theory and a description of the reality it refers to, generalized to a worldview, is a Quantum Paradigm, where ‘paradigm' is defined as structure of experiential reality. We assert that the fundamental obstruction in the quest for a quantum paradigm is the assumption of objectivity. The subject-object distinction, drawn within experience, has within the natural sciences degenerated into a dichotomy-an absolute split into separate realms-with scientists adopting the classical paradigm where the object pole of experience ("objective reality") can be studied independently from the subject pole ("the experiencer"), with a presupposition that this procedure yields a fundamental description of nature. In fact, the subjective is often eliminated altogether as a fundamental category, and reduced to an epiphenomenon of objective processes. We claim this objectivity assumption precludes a full comprehension and a paradox-free formulation of quantum theory. By challenging this presupposition, i.e. leaving the question open, a coherent understanding of quantum nature falls naturally into place, providing appropriate foundation for quantum theory and an associated world-view. The resulting Quantum Paradigm is "realist" in the sense that it provides a description of what is actually happening: namely the arena of all happening is Mind or Consciousness-from which mind and matter, subject and object, individual and collective, and time and space co-dependently arise. The subject matter of quantum theory then becomes the fundamental mind-function of distinction ("measurement"), resulting in information and its statistical correlations. The message of quantum mechanics is surprising: the basic components of objects-the particles, electrons, quarks, etc.-cannot be thought of as ‘self-existent'. The reality that they, and hence all objects, are components of is ‘empirical reality', of experience."The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine."-James Jeans Anomalous phenomena such as ESP and psychokinesis, collective consciousness, and synchronicity that are considered impossible in the context of the classical paradigm, fit naturally in, and can in turn provide evidence for the Quantum Paradigm. Spirituality and science are shown to be complementary approaches referring to the same reality, Mind, while each discipline retains its integrity. The Quantum Paradigm can be intellectually comprehended, as well as embodied: one can live in quantum reality. A good metaphor for this is "life as a dream": with no "real" objects as distinguished from experienced objects. Experience is "empty" of self-nature in the Buddhist sense, with everything interconnected and co-dependently arising. Experiencing the world by "embodying the Quantum Paradigm" is transformative, healing, and an antidote to alienation resulting from embodying the classical paradigm. Embodying the Quantum Paradigm and living in the Oneness of all creation can help humanity-increasingly lost in the materialism and individualism reinforced by our embodiment of the classical paradigm-and restore intimate connection and harmony with Spirit, Nature and fellow humans; we need such a transformation to survive and thrive in our technological society.
Is mind quantum-like? Is consciousness quantum physical? Does consciousness have a role to play in the emergence of the classical world from the underlying quantum universe? Or is this dichotomy between classical and quantum an illusion? How can world philosophies enrich our views on these matters and interact with the best scientific theories? These are some questions that motivated us to conceive the current book. We also felt an urgent need to discuss the central philosophical questions haunting the emerging frameworks of quantum cognition and quantum-like framework (QLF). We have observed that there are very good technical or mathematical works being done in the emerging fields of quantum cognition and QLF, but there is still a great need for exploring the underlying and open philosophical questions they demand. Quantum cognition developed as a frontier research programme in understanding various cognitive phenomena that are hard or impossible to describe based on classical cognitive science paradigm. Classical cognitive science draws philosophically and mathematically from classical physics and classical probability theory. For example, cognitive realism thinking is deeply motivated by the scientific realism of classical physics. However, as we explore, there are numerous empirical findings which demonstrate clearly that human mind and cognitive processes exhibit features that are more quantum-like. Central to these features are indeterminacy, context dependence, and complementarity of cognitive phenomena, for example, perception, information retrieval, and even qualia. Many good works in the previous decade have demonstrated the efficacy of quantum-like mathematical modelling in such cases. However, given that efficacy, we cannot simply conclude that mind is quantum. Rather there are features that go beyond what is allowed in standard quantum formalism.
In classical physics there is, in accordance with common sense, an objective world ‘out there’. That world evolves in a clear and deterministic way, being governed by precisely formulated mathematical equations. This is as true for the theories of Maxwell and Einstein as it is for the original Newtonian scheme. Physical reality is taken to exist independently of ourselves; and exactly how the classical world ‘is’ is not affected by how we might choose to look at it. Moreover, our bodies and our brains are themselves to be part of that world. They, also, are viewed as evolving according to the same precise and deterministic classical equations. All our actions are to be fixed by these equations - no matter how we might feel that our conscious wills may be influencing how we behave. Such a picture appears to lie at the background of most serious 1 philosophical arguments concerned with the nature of reality, of our conscious perceptions, and of our apparent free will. Some people might have an uncomfortable feeling that there should also be a role for quantum theory - that fundamental but disturbing scheme of things which, in the first quarter of this century, arose out of observations of subtle discrepancies between the actual behaviour of the world and the descriptions of classical physics. To many, the term ‘quantum theory’ evokes merely some vague concept of an ‘uncertainty principle’, which, at the level of particles, atoms or molecules, forbids precision in our descriptions and yields merely probabilistic behaviour. Actually, quantum descriptions are very precise, as we shall see, although radically different from the familiar classical ones. Moreover, we shall find, despite a common view to the contrary, that probabilities do not arise at the minute quantum level of particles, atoms, or molecules - those evolve deterministically - but, seemingly, via some mysterious larger-scale action connected with the emergence of a classical world that we can consciously perceive. We must try to understand this, and how quantum theory forces us to change our view of physical reality.
The article explores challenges presented by revelations in physics and the questions they provoke concerning reality. It sheds light on the disparity between the indefinite nature of quantum reality and our perception of classical reality. The necessity for transition from the quantum to classical reality is underscored, alongside difficulties of observer intervention and the complexities introduced by the objective collapse theory. The work introduces a pioneering approach of decoherence within the framework of universal wave function density matrices. It deploys entanglement among three primary quantum subsystems: mass particles, massless particles, and the human body system. This gives rise to a Von Neumann chain of correlated systems, wherein neglecting one system renders the other two in mixed states. Here the cohered massless system and the animate being constitute subjects of our perceptions. Within the body, the distributions of quantum particle wave packets are highly localized due to entanglement and chemical potential, satisfying the Ehrenfest condition, wherein the thermal deBroglie wavelength scale is considerably smaller than their domain in the body. Thus, each microstate of the body quantum particle ensemble can be analogously represented as a statistical mechanics particle ensemble or likened to microstates in the Debye statistical model. In the statistical mechanics perspective, life represents a macrostate characterized by thermodynamics parameters, and chemical potential. The life macrostate autonomously processes an environment corresponding to a mixed state alternative of its entangled quantum world counterpart, which appears in the stream of consciousness. The quantum universe persists, evolving deterministically, and the classical (macroscopic) universe is its realization statistical by the fundamental predicate of life discerned by the brain; our elusive world.