Society for Consciousness Studies
Dr. Dean Radin
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Quantum mind and its consequences
Abstract: If all aspects of the mind-brain relationship were adequately explained by classical physics, then there would be no need to propose alternatives. But faced with possibly unresolvable puzzles like qualia and free will, other approaches are required. In alignment with a suggestion by Heisenberg in 1958, we propose a model whereby the world consists of two elements: Ontologically real Possibles that do not obey Aristotle’s law of the excluded middle, and ontologically real Actuals that do. Based on this view, which bears resemblance to von Neumann’s 1955 proposal, and more recently by Stapp and others, measurement that is registered by an observer’s mind converts Possibles into Actuals. This quantum-oriented approach raises the intriguing prospect that some aspects of mind may be quantum, and that mind may play an active role in the physical world. A body of empirical evidence supports these possibilities, strengthening our proposal that the mind-brain relationship may be partially quantum.
Bio: Dean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and chairman of the biotech company, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc (doctor of science) from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India (an institution of higher learning accredited by the Indian government and specializing in yoga practice and research).
Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 670 talks and interviews worldwide, and he is author or coauthor of some 300 scientific and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, and nine books, four of which have been translated into 15 foreign languages: The Conscious Universe (1997, HarperCollins), Entangled Minds (2006, Simon & Schuster), Supernormal (2013, RandomHouse), and Real Magic (2018, PenguinRandomHouse).
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This seems so crazy… but better safe than sorry, maybe something comes out of all this
@ 29:00 – Turning off this gift? That's gonna have the elites wringing their hands and making us take some potion to rid themselves of anybody who is gifted. I guess on the upside there won't be any more burning people at the stake or trumping up charges to jail them (See WWII UK last witch case).
Why can’t we just misunderstand perception and it not be quantum mechanical in nature? Like how birds can navigate using magnetic fields or how antenna pick up video signals? We all know there’s information flow outside the accepted notions of perceptual awareness, but it doesn’t have to mystical and/or quantum mechanical in nature…it could just be a flaw in our understanding of perception in general….that’s always been my take anyway🤔🤷🏼♂️
This guy he has taught me an awful lot of intresting things.
Dr. Radin expresses some of the most thought provoking questions, in a sea of suppositions and unanswered questions.
Here's another: What is the end goal? Is it to understand the transcendental object at the end of time, or is it to be one with it?
I wonder if technology and scientific inquiry will achieve an equivalent to spiritual enlightenment, or will it ultimately describe
a pseudo-enlightened state, with just better stuff and faster internet…
Can a non-math major ever hope to understand his own nature? Asking for a friend.
Then there's retrocausality…