Tuesday, February 5, 2013

qm01 In the quantum description of Nature proposed by Heisenberg, reality has two different aspects

In the quantum description of Nature proposed by Heisenberg, reality has two different aspects:


1.
One consists of a set of ‘actual events’ – these events form a sequence of ‘happenings’, each of

which actualizes one of the possibilities offered by the quantum dynamics.


2.
This consists of a set of ‘objective tendencies’ for these events to occur, these tendencies are

represented as persisting structures in space and time.

Our major research effort is to identify and correlate these persisting structures with the

functionalities/events.

If we can correlate thoughts with high level quantum events in brains as suggested by von Neumann,

Wigner and others, then we will be able to build-up a theory which will be dual aspect theory of the

mind/brain, in the sense that it correlates the inner or mental aspects of mind/brain system with ‘actual

events’ in Heisenberg picture of Nature. In this context, Bohr resolved the problem of reconciling the

quantum and classical aspect of Nature by introducing the fact that, the only thing that is known to be

classical is our description of our perceptions of physical objects. J. von Neumann and Wigner used this

key insight into dynamical form by proposing that the quantum/classical divide be made not only on the

basis of size, but rather on the basis of the qualitative difference in those aspects of Nature we call mind

and matter (body).

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