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No. 16546
The Self-Aware Universe

A Synopsis of Amit Goswami's Theory of Physics & Psychic Phenomena

>Summary


Amit Goswami, PhD has proposed a theory of consciousness, rather than atoms, as the fundamental reality o the material world. Based in the philosophy of monistic idealism, he claims to obtain a consistent paradox-free interpretation of the new physics. He suggests a quantum mechanical, as well as classical nature for mind, which accounts for nonlocal psychic phenomena.

MONISTIC IDEALISM

In searching for the fundamental basis of physical reality and the nature of the mind, Goswami (1993) has defined consciousness as "the agency that affects quantum objects to make their behavior sensible." In choosing this criterion he hopes to show how mind can effect matter non-energetically because they share the same essence.

By making the leap from a universe based on bits of matter, to one based in consciousness, he hopes to logically and coherently resolve some of the major paradoxes of physics. He suggests that instead of everything being made of atoms, everything is made of consciousness. If quantum objects are waves that spread in existence at more than one place, as QM has shown, then consciousness may be the agency that focuses the waves so we can observe them at one place.

Goswami labels this philosophy,

"monistic as opposed to dualistic, and it is idealism because ideas (not to be confused with ideals) and the consciousness of them are considered to be the basic elements of reality; matter is considered to be secondary."

Mental phenomena such as self-consciousness, free will, creativity, and ESP are explained anew in this reformulation of the mind-body in a fresh context.

As in both the mystical view and holographic universe (such as that described by Bohm), there is only the dynamic play of one great webwork of existence (Bohm's holomovement). This unified movement, a dance of creation and annihilation, has intentionality.

However, Goswami does not propose that consciousness is mind; they are different concepts.

In monistic idealism, the consciousness of the subject in a subject-object experience is the same consciousness that is the ground of all being. Therefore, consciousness is unitive. The domain of potentia also exists in consciousness. Nothing is outside consciousness.

Buddha tells us that,

"There is an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed. If there were not this Unborn, this Unoriginated, this Uncreated, this Unformed, escape from the world of the born, the originated, the created, the formed would not be possible."

But there is this essential ground, and it is possible to "escape" space-time, according to Buddha.

If the brain-mind is itself an object in a non-local consciousness that encompasses all reality, then what we call objective empirical reality is within this consciousness. The one becomes many through self-reference, fragmentation into tangled hierarchies of self-iterating information.

The trick is to distinguish between consciousness and awareness.

In processes of which we are aware classical models prevail. When we consciously see, consciousness collapses the quantum state of the brain-mind. Unconscious processing does not effect collapse of the quantum wave-function, pinning down quantum entities to one reality. Thus, unconscious processing permits the expression of non-local phenomena.

The situation in the brain-mind, with consciousness collapsing the wave function may only happen when awareness is present. There is a tangled hierarchy within the immanent self-reference of a system observing itself.

An operation by a self-referential system is where the von Neumann chain stops.
No.16547
THAT DARN CAT

Erwin Schrodinger reminded us that,

"Observations are to be regarded as discrete, discontinuous events. Between there are gaps which we cannot fill in."

He illustrated his famous metaphor of the uncertainty principle with the conundrum of Schrodinger's Cat. All physics students eventually get tired of hearing about this stupid cat, over and over, pondering whether it will be alive or dead.

Goswami has tried to "put it to bed," with his "nine lives of…" version:

• In the first life, the cat is treated statistically, as part of an ensemble. The cat is offended (because its singularity is denied in this ensemble interpretation) but not wounded.

• In the second life, the cat is viewed as an example of the quantum/classical dichotomy by the divisive philosophers of macrorealism. The cat refuses to trade its life/death dichotomy for another dichotomy.

• In the third life, the cat is confronted with irreversibility and randomness, but the cat says, Prove it.

• In the fourth life, the cat confronts the hidden variables and what happens is still hidden.

• In the fifth life, the neo-Copenhagenists try to do away with the cat using the philosophy of logical positivism. By most judgments, the cat escapes unscathed.

• In the sixth life, the cat encounters many worlds. Who knows, it may have perished in some universe, but as far as we can tell, not in this one.

• In the seventh life, the cat meets Bohr and his complementarity, but the question What constitutes a measurement? saves it.

• In the eighth life, the cat meets consciousness (of a dualistic vintage) face-to-face, but Wigner's friend saves it.

• Finally, in the ninth life, the cat finds salvation in the idealist interpretation.

Only three of these models are not flawed:

• the many-world theory,

• the theory of nonlocal hidden variables,

• and that of monistic idealism.

No.16548
Read the rest of this here don't want to go through copying and formatting and then pasting the rest: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_psycho08.htm



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