Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics

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Quantum Mechanics Panpsychism

Notes

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.

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We are often misinterpreted—and misrepresented—as espousing solipsism or some form of “quantum mysticism,”

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does not entail or imply that the world is merely one’s own personal hallucination or act of imagination. 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.

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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.

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the boundaries of a detector are arbitrary. The inanimate world is a single physical system

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the output of the detectors only becomes known when it is consciously observed

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a conscious observer may be indispensable, an idea further elaborated by one of us with regard to so-called “delayed choice quantum eraser” experiments.

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we cannot know that detectors actually perform measurements, for we cannot abstract ourselves out of our knowledge. Recall Max Planck’s position: “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness.”

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