Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: Life in Parallel Worlds : Miracles of Consciousness from Quantum RealityWorld Scientific, 2010 - 246 pages The phenomenon of consciousness includes mysterious aspects providing a basis for many spiritual doctrines (including religions) and psychological practices. These directions of human knowledge are usually considered to contradict the laws of science. However, quantum mechanics ? in a sense, the mysterious direction of science ? allows us to include the phenomena of consciousness and life as well as the relevant phenomena in the sphere of science.Wolfgang Pauli, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, together with great psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, guessed about the relation between quantum mechanics and consciousness in the beginning of the twentieth century. However, only ?many-worlds? interpretation of quantum mechanics, proposed in 1957 by Hugh Everett III, gave the real basis for the systematic investigation of this relation.Roger Penrose, one of the apologists of the relation between quantum mechanics and consciousness, claimed in his Last book ?The Road to Reality? that the Everett's interpretation may be estimated only after creating the theory of consciousness. Thereagainst, the author has proposed in 2000 and further elaborates in this book, the so-called Extended Everett's Concept, that allows one to derive the main features of consciousness and super-consciousness (intuition, or direct vision of truth) from quantum mechanics. This is exposed in this book in a form intelligible for a wide audience. |
Table des matières
From quantum mechanics to mystery of consciousness | 1 |
PART 1 Miracles produced by consciousness psychicexperience | 25 |
PART 2 Parallel worlds and consciousness | 37 |
PART 3 Parallel Scenarios and Sphere of Life | 141 |
PART 4 Speculations or further development of the concept | 171 |
PART 5 Summing up the results | 185 |
Bibliography | 241 |
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ability alternative classical realities assumption Bell's inequalities brain chapters clairvoyance classical alternatives classical physics classical worlds coexist components Concept of Consciousness considered Copenhagen interpretation corresponding criteria decoherence density matrix environment esotericism Everett's interpretation Everett's Many-Worlds Everett's worlds evolution exist experience explain Extended Everett's Concept fact features of consciousness features of quantum formulated framework human interpretation of quantum laws living system local realism logical Many-Worlds interpretation measurement problem measurement result Mensky mystical features natural sciences objective observer observer's consciousness paradoxes parallel worlds Pauli phenomena phenomenon of consciousness physicists possible postcorrection predictions present probabilistic miracles quantum computers Quantum Concept quantum measurements quantum mechanics quantum physics quantum reality quantum system quantum world question reduction postulate Schrödinger Schrödinger equation Schrödinger's cat scientific sciousness separation of alternatives solution solved soul sphere spiritual subjective probabilities subjectively perceived super-consciousness super-intuition superposition survival system under measurement theory of consciousness tion unconscious vector