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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