Posted on 06/02/2018 5:57:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
For almost a century, physicists have wondered whether the most counterintuitive predictions of quantum mechanics (QM) could actually be true. Only in recent years has the technology necessary for answering this question become accessible, enabling a string of experimental results—including startling ones reported in 2007 and 2010, and culminating now with a remarkable test reported in May—that show that key predictions of QM are indeed correct. Taken together, these experiments indicate that the everyday world we perceive does not exist until observed, which in turn suggests—as we shall argue in this essay—a primary role for mind in nature. It is thus high time the scientific community at large—not only those involved in foundations of QM—faced up to the counterintuitive implications of QM’s most controversial predictions.
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The claim is thus that the dynamics of all inanimate matter in the universe correspond to transpersonal mentation, just as an individual’s brain activity—which is also made of matter—corresponds to personal mentation. This notion eliminates arbitrary discontinuities and provides the missing inner essence of the physical world: all matter—not only that in living brains—is the outer appearance of inner experience, different configurations of matter reflecting different patterns or modes of mental activity.
According to QM, the world exists only as a cloud of simultaneous, overlapping possibilities—technically called a “superposition”—until an observation brings one of these possibilities into focus in the form of definite objects and events. This transition is technically called a “measurement.” One of the keys to our argument for a mental world is the contention that only conscious observers can perform measurements.
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Isn't that what Bishop Berkeley was saying all along?
Which means that I can manipulate time, space and matter with my mind. Sounds like fun.
Shouldn’t the Physicists be studying the negative impacts of Global Warming on Quantum Physics?
Philosophy:401 If an electron goes through you imagination, is the thought generated now a physical reality?
Can I manipulate the scale when I weigh myself in the morning?
Sorry; that makes no sense to me. I’m saying this with a straight face: more research needed.
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(but only if anyone sees it)
“According to QM, the world exists only as a cloud of simultaneous, overlapping possibilities”
QM is wrong.
” the everyday world we perceive does not exist until observed”
I get the drift of this but, the language misses the mark.
Mixing Observation with Existence thrusts Mankind to the center of existence. Balderdash! says me.
G-d made the Heaven’s and Earth.
In simple notation, Things “ARE” or “AREN”T”. A=A.
This scientific pronouncement would make us all God.
Sorry, as a man of faith, I believe I am coming know G_d in my life, and you ain’t Him.
All is know is if I hit my hand with a hammer, it “really” hurts like heck.
” the everyday world we perceive does not exist until observed”
I get the drift of this but, the language misses the mark.
Mixing Observation with Existence thrusts Mankind to the center of existence. Balderdash! says me.
G-d made the Heaven’s and Earth.
In simple notation, Things “ARE” or “AREN”T”. A=A.
This scientific pronouncement would make us all G_d.
Sorry, as a man of faith, I believe I am coming know G_d in my life, and you ain’t Him.
If reality does not exist until a consciousness observes the superpositions, then what existed before there was any consciousness to observe anything at all? If no reality existed existed prior to consciousness, then what brought consciousness into being?
Are 6 six billion consciousnesses on earth each viewing the same reality? Or are each viewing their own reality? If each is viewing its own reality, then how do we have common perceptions of things?
What counts as an “observer” or a “measurer”? People only? People and animals? People, animals, insects, and one called creatures? Plants?
Our view is entirely naturalistic: the mind that underlies the world is a transpersonal mind behaving according to natural laws. It comprises but far transcends any individual psyche.
Or, more to the point: Life is but a dream.
Sounds like solipsism to me and it’s tough to argue against a solipsist.
Are 6 six billion consciousnesses on earth each viewing the same reality?
All together now.....Row Row Row your boat...gently down the stream
btt
Not exactly. It means that things only become completly “there” when a mind become aware of them. This fact can be used to manipulate things in specific ways by certain cleverly designed experimets...but does not mean anything like magic powers. Think of a computer game that doesnt bother to render one of uts levels when there are no players on tge level. Some things aspects of our rrality are sirt of rendered only when we observe them.
Sorry about typos from phone...
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