A completely non-statistical non-linear non-unitary framework in which "God does not play dice ..." (Einstein) that describes the physical foundations of consciousness is presented for the first time. At its core is the insight that the missing link between current physical descriptions of reality and a credible physical framework for consciousness is provided by post-quantum mechanics (PQM): the extension of statistical linear unitary quantum mechanics for closed systems to a locally-retrocausal[i] non-statistical non-linear non-unitary theory for open systems through the introduction of a back-reaction potential and its implications. PQM is to orthodox QM as General Relativity (GR) is to Special Relativity (SR). PQM and GR both share the same metaphysical organizing principle that one-way actions without a compensating reaction or back-reaction means an incompleteness in the theoretical model leaving out important physical phenomena. We gleaned the final piece in the puzzle of how consciousness arises from the material world from a result relating to long range collective excitations in microtubules described by Stuart Hameroff in a recent Fetzer Foundation conference in London. Herbert Fröhlich suggested that almost any many-particle system when properly pumped far off thermodynamic equilibrium can be put into a robust macro-quantum coherent state immune from environmental decoherence. Indeed, we suggest that all life forms are an example of Frohlich coherence that is intimately connected with locally-retrocausal PQM back-reaction's violation of the de Broglie guidance equation that was assumed by Bohm in his 1952 pilot wave theory. Using nature as a guide combined with nano-technology points the way to the construction of naturally conscious artificial intelligence machines capable of hacking into current-day quantum cryptographic networks. Furthermore, one can imagine attaining the transhumanist agenda. For example, the consciousness of a genius like Stephen Hawking could be uploaded to the post-quantum Cloud and then downloaded to a healthy body or android.
This paper examines whether large-scale or long-lived quantum uncertainty can persist without physical consequence. It argues that sustaining extended quantum uncertainty is not a free or purely formal allowance, but a physically enforced state that requires isolation, control, energy throughput, and material infrastructure. These requirements necessarily introduce entropy production, heat dissipation, mass–energy presence, and reciprocal back-reaction. Beyond a scale-dependent limit, the very resources needed to maintain uncertainty destabilize the conditions required for its persistence. The paper identifies this self-destabilization as a necessary physical constraint on macroscopic superposition, without modifying small-scale quantum mechanics or invoking observers, interpretations, or stochastic collapse laws.
This paper introduces the Temporal Superposition and Collapse (TSC) model, which proposes that quantum systems exist in superpositions not only of spatial and energetic states,but also of temporal positions. The act of observation collapses a quantum system’s temporal wavefunction into an experienced “now.” Time, in this framework, is not a continuousdimension but a sequence of discrete, emergent moments generated through quantum observation.We develop a mathematical formulation for TSC, uniting standard unitary Schrodingerevolution with a non-unitary collapse term, linking time emergence to conscious experience.This model reframes the present not as a passive slice of time, but as a physically real consequence of collapse, bridging quantum physics, consciousness, and relativity. We examineinterpretive implications, experimental analogs (e.g., delayed-choice quantum eraser), andsuggest consciousness may arise from the continuous collapse of temporal potential into thenow. The TSC model aligns with and extends interpretations like Copenhagen, Transactional, and Block Universe, offering a testable, ontologically rich view of time.