Thursday, April 12, 2007

Whitehead and Consciousness article by Stuart Hameroff

"In the quantum realm (and the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds remains mysterious) objects may exist in two or more states or places simultaneously—more like waves than particles and governed by a “quantum wave function”. This property of multiple coexisting possibilities, known as quantum superposition, persists until the superposition is measured, observed or interacts with the classical world or environment. Only then does the superposition of multiple possibilities “reduce”, “collapse”, “actualize”, “choose” or “decohere” to specific, particular classical states. Early experiments seemed to show that even if a machine measured a quantum superposition, the multiple possibilities persisted until the machine’s results were observed by a conscious human. This led leading quantum theorists including Bohr, Heisenberg and Wigner to conclude that consciousness caused quantum state reduction, that consciousness “collapsed the wave function” (the “Copenhagen interpretation”, reflecting the Danish origin of Nils Bohr, its leading proponent). = from http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/Whitehead.htm

(Text colored added by me).

Reduce, Collapse, Actualize, Choose or Decohere = all mean SINGULATION!!!!


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