We increasingly know more about quantum physics, and of how modern physics can widen our understanding of daily life, of ourselves and our relationship with the world. Quantum physics opens up to us a new perspective on the link between matter and awareness, and of how its principies ( wave-particle duality, coherence, no locality, indetermination, etc.) permit us to understand many, until now unknown, mysteries; of how the duality of mind-body is the reflection of the dual ity wave-particle; of how the awareness of the observer modifies the result of the experiment; of how the coherence or not of the therapist influences the pacient; of the action of the mind at a distance; of the freewill, etc.
We increasingly know more about quantum physics, and of how modern physics can widen our understanding of daily life, of ourselves and our relationship with the world. Quantum physics opens up to us a new perspective on the link between matter and awareness, and of how its principies ( wave-particle duality, coherence, no locality, indetermination, etc.) permit us to understand many, until now unknown, mysteries; of how the duality of mind-body is the reflection of the dual ity wave-particle; of how the awareness of the observer modifies the result of the experiment; of how the coherence or not of the therapist influences the pacient; of the action of the mind at a distance; of the freewill, etc.
A referência frequente à mente no contexto da física é um fenómeno fascinante. Em muitos fenómenos a mente e os “aspectos” mentais da realidade tornaram-se importantes. Neste texto, descrevem-se detalhadamente os argumentos que se referem à natureza mental do universo, sugerindo-se que os aspecto da realidade física oferecem uma oportunidade real para a fundação dos nossos valores e princípios metafisicos, incluindo os nossos valores morais, na ordem do universo. Questiona-se se a estrutura do universo pode assumir uma ordem espiritual, tal como física pode deter uma outra de natureza mental. Em suma, a realidade quântica requer uma nova visão do processo da evolução da vida. As moléculas são a base da vida, e as mesmas são sistemas quânticos. O nosso conhecimento da estrutura quântica das moléculas deve ser integrado na discussão biológica.
Wave-particle duality and action at a distance remain among the most conceptuallychallenging observations in modern physics. Conventional physics successfully predictsthe associated phenomena but often treats them as fundamental paradoxes orconsequences of mathematical formalism. Space-Phase Theory (SP3) offers an alternativeinterpretation in which both phenomena are natural consequences of the organizationalbehavior of a continuous, conditionable three-dimensional medium. In this view, matterremains durable and localized, while wave behavior, propagation, coherence, and apparentnonlocality are properties of the space-phase medium itself. Wave-particle duality andaction at a distance are therefore interpreted not as fundamental mysteries of matter, butas fingerprints of the medium through which matter and energy propagate.
Early on, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr heatedly debated wave-particle duality. To explain duality Bohr postulated his principle of complementarity, which is now widely accepted, but has mystifying metaphysical implications. Albert Einstein disagreed. Richard Feynman called it the “only mystery�? in quantum mechanics. Ingenious experiments including those using entanglement have confirmed Bohr’s complementarity. In this paper a new Duality Theorem is presented with proof which explains duality with particle always remaining particle and wave always remaining wave throughout, without using wave-particle complementarity or “which way�? (welcher-weg) observation. We explain results of reported experiments by showing the equivalence: Coherence and alignment ≡ Interference ≡ No “which way�? observation; No coherence or alignment ≡ No interference ≡ “which way�? observation That is, complementarity is redundant; conventional criteria of alignment and coherence alone suffice for interference. Our explanation does not require that photon somehow “know�? about the test setup or “which way�? observation and change its behavior from particle to wave and vice versa. No new assumptions are made, only new reasoning. In the context of entanglement we also help explain non-local action at a distance, and rephrase Albert Einstein’s unanswered question “Is quantum mechanics complete?�? at a more fundamental level.
Este trabajo intenta, someramente, hacer un racconto de las principales teorias de la fisica cuantica que intentaron vincularse con el estudio de la consciencia. Para luego intentar vincularlas con los hallazgos sobre el estudio de las bases neurales de la consciencia y aspectos filosoficos del vinculo mente-cerebro.
Palabras clave
Fisica Cuantica Consciencia Cerebro
ABSTRACT
CONTRIBUTIONS OF QUANTUM PHYSICS TO STUDY THE MIND-BRAIN PROBLEM This paper try to make a brief review of quantum physic theories that attempt to link their theories with the study of consciousness. After that I try to link them with findings on the study of the neural basis of consciousness and philosophical aspects of mind-brain connection.
Key words
Physics Quantum Consciousness Brain
While physicists pursue the search for the Grand Unified Theory (GUT) and the expedition to find the Higgs that ought to solidify the Standard Model, philosophers keep inquiring as to what the nature of matter and mind might be and propose various theories. At first sight, the high energy physicist or the philosopher, both human, and the elementary particle seem to have nothing in common, however we contend and argue in this paper that we are looking at different scales of what constitutes universal behaviour and use Herman Dooyeweerd's theory of Modal Aspects to bridge the particle to the mind. To other than a physicist the dual nature of the atom or the so-called elementary particles may be difficult to comprehend and certainly appears unfathomable to intuit. This is due to the fact that the dual nature of matter finds its anchoring within the theoretical and mathematical frameworks provided by quantum mechanics, the latter tends to not be easily accessible to most individual's intuition. What would the consequences be if human nature itself had a dual character? We all know that human nature is both egoistic and altruistic, however it is not often that one considers the fact that egoism is an individual behaviour, while altruism is a collective behaviour. Likewise a particle is an individual manifestation of what we call matter, while wave nature can be considered characteristic of collective behaviour of the same matter.
Recent advances in experimental physics—the queen of reductionist science—aimed at solving the mysteries of the quantum world has led to a deepening of the mystery rather than easing it, dispelling the EPR paradox and pointing out a conceptional error in this now famous gedanken experiment, while lending some authority and validation to quantum mechanics. The strange features of the quantum world are founded on what Bohr dubbed complementarity, or the way a sub-particle entity can behave either as a wave or as a particle; and on Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which says that a quantum entity such as an electron does not avail itself to a deterministic exact measurement of both position and momentum simultaneously. Such postulates seem to contradict deeply held assumptions by the deterministic and materialistically oriented world of experimental physics where everything, including the atom, can be reduced to a single aspect. There are mounting calls for newer ways of understanding reality that are capable of handling these apparently strange incomprehensible phenomena revealed through the classical observation of the microscopic quantum world. There is also fundamental progress made in bouncing cosmology theories that bridge general relativity to quantum mechanics and provide some insight into the nature of the universe and its transition and pre-history through the big bang.
The thrust of this paper evolves around two pillars. One, is that that the apparent logical fissure emergent in reductionist thought, coming from orthodox science and the application of the scientific method that is manifest in what we know and do not understand in quantum mechanics, can be liaised to our intellectual understanding through the perspective offered by Herman Dooyeweerd's theory of Modal Aspects. The other, is the central and special role humans have in relation to the universe. Through this approach, we will argue that the dual nature of the atom or elementary particles is, rather than being a strange phenomenon, in fact an essential characteristic of what constitutes its nature
Along with weaving together observations, experiments, and theoretical constructs into a coherent mesh of understanding of the world around us, physics over its past five centuries has continuously refined the base concepts on which the whole framework is built. In quantum physics, first in non-relativistic mechanics and later in quantum field theories, even familiar concepts of position, momentum, wave or particle, are derived constructs from the classical limit in which we live but not intrinsic to the underlying physics. Most crucially, the very idea of the individual, whether an object or an event, distinguished only in a mere label of identity from others identical to it in all the physics, exists only as an approximation, not an element of underlying reality. Failure to recognize this and seeking alternative explanations in many worlds or multiverses leads only to incoherent logic and incorrect physics. As an example, in a physical system such as an atom in a particular state, physics deals with the universal system of all such atoms but makes no meaningful prediction of the position of an electron or the time of decay of any specific atom. Those are incidental, entirely random among all possible positions and times, even while physics makes very precise predictions for the distribution of the outcomes in measurements on atoms in that state. Physics deals with the universal, not the individual.