Thursday, October 14, 2010

Rajat Kumar Pradhan - Subject-Object Duality and States of Consciousness: A Quantum Mechanical Approach

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I'm not a huge quantum consciousness enthusiast - I think there are some possibilities there, but I also think that we are not able to measure anything at this point. But speculation is fun, too.

In all honesty, I suspect that I do not really understand much of this (maybe I need more dark-chocolate covered espresso beans), but I enjoyed trying to as I read it. If anyone reads it, and gets it, please leave me a note in the comments.

Source: NeuroQuantology, Vol 8, No 3 (2010)

Rajat Kumar Pradhan

Abstract

A phenomenological approach using the states of spin-like observables is developed to understand the nature of consciousness and the totality of experience. The three states of consciousness are taken to form the triplet of eigenstates of a spin-one entity and are derived as the triplet resulting from the composition of two spins by treating the subject and the object as interacting two-state, spin-half systems with external and internal projections. The state of deep sleep is analysed in the light of this phenomenological approach and a novel understanding of the status of the individual consciousness in this state is obtained. The resulting fourth state i.e. the singlet state, is interpreted to correspond to the superconscious state of intuitive experience and is justified by invoking the concept of the universal consciousness as the underlying source of all individual states of experience. It is proposed that the individual experiences result from the operations of four individualizing observables which project out the individual from the universal. The one-to-one correspondence between the individual and the universal states of experience is brought out and their identity in the fourth state is established by showing that all individualizing quantum numbers become zero in this state leaving no trace of any individuality.

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