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Fred Kuttner discusses his book Quantum Enigma — Physics Encounters Consciousness, co-authored with Bruce Rosenblum. In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics, the most successful theory in science. But they found, to their embarrassment, that with their theory, physics encounters consciousness, a mysterious phenomenon that science cannot explain and cannot ignore. Attempts to interpret the meaning and implications of all this are often controversial. But every interpretation of quantum physics involves consciousness, and the connection of consciousness with the Universe suggested by some leading quantum cosmologists is mind-blowing. There exists a boundary beyond which the expertise of physicists is no longer the only sure guide.
In the few decades since experiments established the existence of quantum entanglement, interest in the foundations, and the mysteries, of quantum mechanics has accelerated. In recent years, physicists, philosophers, computer engineers, and even biologists have expanded our realization of the significance of quantum phenomena. Quantum theory tells us that an object can be in two places at the same time, that its existence becomes real only when observed, and that the observation of an object can instantaneously influence another distant object even if no physical force connects the two. Quantum theory thus denies the existence of a physically real world independent of its observation.
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Good work!
P.s. Buddhism has indeed been saying all of this and more. Its truly incredible if one takes the time to thoroughly dive into it!
This guy is still thinking in the terms of Newtonian physics. He wants consciousness and or psychic behavior to be repeatable as in “ scientific method” or he complains it is too weak. He just doesn’t get it. Old physics is an observable effect, new physics is potential and cause.
As someone with barely any physics background, I must say I've been finding the book absolutely precious and just what I'd been looking for, so much that the authors themselves have grown dear to me throughout. For that, I appreciate you having mr. Kuttner on. God bless!
I am reading it right now . Really informative for beginners and non q physicist.
The bar for egomania is set real low these days. Grasping the straw of wave function collapse to bring down manifest reality and supplant it with the premise of individual conscious control or even effect over physical reality is a misplacement of agency in the mechanism of life. We and all of life are the product of consciousness and the universe in which it is manifest. We are participants as leaves of a tree not the progenitors of the tree. Knowledge can be misconstrued. Even truth can be falsified. Drop the veil erroneous thought.Consciousness is revealed!
Beyond survival, reproduction and imagination which is the seat of reality, invention, art and delusion, we have but the well of 'Grand Consciousness' to tap into, as does the leaf the sap from it's root.
Yes, consciousness has the wave function collapse in one observed aspect. It precedes thought, is of the afterthought but not thought itself. As such consciousness is non local, as in entanglement, simultaneous, everywhere at the same time. Nor of or subject to to space-time limitations. Sort of like 'Nirvana", everywhere and nowhere or now here. This includes the instant 'trans-visibility' of the universe, as in astral projection or remote viewing. It doesn't stop there, for what avails you this knowledge, belief or faith, lest in resonant agreement with universal reality it becomes experience. A truth.
Well, the only enigma of this book is the book itself, i.e., how it is possible to write and sell another book about the meaning of the quantum mechanics with not even one new content. This is just an historical review, inlcuding the thounsand times repited same examples and paradoxes with no new explanations or ideas. Frustrating
The presenter speaks too much. Ask and listen then follow the money.
An experiment has been published that disproves the consciousness interpretation of quantum physics: R. H. S. Carpenter and A. J. Anderson, "The death of Schrodinger's cat and of consciousness-based quantum wave-function collapse," Annales de la Foundation Louis de Broglie 31, 45-54 (2006). The idea of the experiment is that a Schrodinger-cat-like experiment is carried out, and two observers then each get partial information about the outcome. Later, they put the two pieces of partial information together, whereupon both observers become conscious of the experiment's outcome. The question then is, when did the collapse occur? Was it at the time of the experiment (when nobody was conscious of the outcome), or later (when Carpenter and Anderson became conscious of the outcome)? They did a series of trials of the experiment. In every trial, the collapse occurred at the time of the experiment. – Art Hobson, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
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their book is really good
Everything must arise from consciousness. You may not need a conscious observer to demonstrate wave particle duality, but you need one to observe the results and also to comprehend the experiment in the first place
psi has been confirmed to exist. most skeptics are pseudoskeptics or are totally ignorant of the literature.
flawed premise, not true. Consciousness is not necessary to demonstrate that neither of our concepts, wave or particle, are adequate to describe physical reality. You can set up a completely automatic measurement to show
and recordeither wave or particle behavior, with nobody conscious present in the vicinity. All we know is that if the experiment is set up in such a way that it will show the wave nature of matter, then that's what it will do, and conversely, if it's set up to show particle behavior, then that's what it will show. Nobody present, no consciousness. Question is, how does the experiment ’know' what it was set up to measure?