This LINK continues Dr. Stapp's assertions (which ARE true) of the previous posting, with the name of the Report stating the premise (the Report was published in PSYCHE, an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness):
Why Classical Mechanics Cannot Naturally Accommodate Consciousness but Quantum Mechanics Can
This second LINK adds Dr. Stapp's further comments with regard to other recent postings concerning consciousness:
Henry Stapp's posting about qualia...
For further commentary on the Brain/Mind and consciousness, by another of
today's eminent researchers and "leading lights" on such topics, I include
hereinfollowing two Reports by Dr. Giuseppe Vitiello, of the Department of
Physics, at the University of Salerno, Italy:
Dissipation and Memory Capacity in the Quantum Brain Model
Re: Quantum memory models? (cont.)
Another two postings on consciousness and the Brain/Mind are the
following:
This posting is from Dr. Gordon Globus, of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, at the University of California Irvine, as published in PSYCHE:
Quantum Consciousness is Cybernetic
This posting is actually an online Symposium of nine different researchers presenting their commentary regarding one of today's seminal books on consciousness, Dr. Roger Penrose's (of Oxford University, England) book, Shadows of the Mind. The Symposium is, again, published in PSYCHE. In fact, the LINK herewith supplied includes three additional Symposia on consciousness which include the hereinabove already noted postings (to PSYCHE) of Dr. Henry Stapp and Dr. Gordon Globus.
Symposium on Roger Penrose's Shadows of the Mind
For further background (before I resume FURTHER COMMENTS herein myself), the
reader of this page might also check the following LINKS:
PSYCHE, an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness.If the reader of this page has reviewed the above Links (and other sources), you should have a pretty good idea of the state of consciousness research today. So now I will continue my comments (Father Jerome's COMMENTS) with a brief "overview" of the situation.
A quantum brain? Quantum consciousness?
quantum explanations
Quantum nonlocality
Nonlocality and implicate order
Nonlocal investigations
Coherence and nonlocality
Quantum coherence
This is Rhett Savage's website DICTIONARY of TERMS and Keywords (and Links):
H is for h-bar...
These are additional LINKS at Rhett Savage's website:
Links quantum mechanical...
In one of my Works ("An
Evolutionary Maturity of the Human Mind"), I have made the comment that,
as a long-ago student of Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence
People book and course, I remember especially one of the points of the Dale
Carnegie presentations: Always "beat-around-the-bush", or (by this explanation)
always state your statement/material/thought/idea/concept (or whatever), three
times in three (3) different ways, in order to get the message across to those
(which is most) people who have their preconceived ideas about any and
everything and who will, naturally, think you are talking about something
completely different than what you are actually talking about (that something
being what THEY are thinking about, rather than what YOU are talking about),
UNLESS you DO "beat-around-the-bush" and tell it three different ways. And that
is how I seem to communicate, in my writings and in my works, by
"beating-around-the-bush", and trying to present the fact or concept being
discussed three different ways (or more!), in order to facilitate understanding
by the reader thereof.
NOW, however, I want to apply that same term - "beating-around-the-bush" - TO
those other scientists of the Quantum which I have been commenting about (and I
won't even attempt to address any "classical" Newtonian physicists who may be
out there and whose obsolete perspectives are not within my purview).
First of all, I want to say (with regard to such other scientists of the
Quantum as I may be referring to, other than myself) that what such other
scientists have done (in the LINKS hereinabove and elsewhere, as well as in
other Reports, Books, etc.), in the particular ways in which they have related
and expressed their ideas, concepts and facts, MAY BE, after all, a form of
exactly the same thing that I have just told you that I do - in
"beating-around-the-bush". In their use of such arcane, scientific language and
terminology (YES, I realize that they are writing primarily for other scientists
and NOT for the layman, as I do!), in relating that which they present, as to
their attempts to explain the "Big Picture" of consciousness and the human
brain/mind (OR the "parts" thereof), they MAY have the overall concept correct
(and I assume that they DO, at least somewhere in their personal consciousness,
which is one of the realities that I have written about in my Work, "An
Evolutionary Maturity of the Human Mind"; i.e., that deep down inside of
each one of us, as sentient human beings of consciousness, we DO KNOW the truth,
the right and the wrong, and much more, OF whatever it is that we are
instantaneously exposed to, confronted with, or have concern about), BUT they
have yet to put the pieces together in a coherent and logical (AND truthful)
"Big Picture", which can be understood by all. (Maybe I'm just a little bit
obstreperous and condescending here - Heaven Forbid! - in my comparison, for I
certainly do feel that I, personally, am used to writing for 5 year-old children
and up, in a "classical" American-English style that is generally understandable
by anyone of minimal intelligence and erudition, SO WHY CAN'T EVERYONE DO
SO?)
SO, although they MAY be saying what is correct and truthful (as anything in
science can be "truthful"?), they are actually "beating-around-the-bush" IN A
DIFFERENT WAY. Let us apply another definition to that term,
"beating-around-the-bush". MEANING that they DO KNOW, and CAN SEE, the "bush",
as it might be called - the objective (OR subjective!) facts or evidence OF the
realities of consciousness and the Mind - BUT, in their attempts to explain
such, they are NOT putting the "jig-saw" puzzle together properly, and not
completing the puzzle - the "Big Picture" - satisfactorily for anyone to
comprehend (other than, maybe, other scientists of their own particular and
limited "specialization" and perspective). BY such a definition, they are
"beating-around-the-bush", and speaking the truth of what they say (and even
offering the "idea", as one of them has put it, that there is something - some
as yet un-named and un-presented and un-discovered "thing", or "essence"
[however, see the definition of "essence"] - which is BEYOND the human brain and
corporeality, that can explain, and put together, all of their "pieces" of the
puzzle), but their words and ideas are just not "connecting" with the reality of
that "bush" which they are "dancing about" in their efforts to explain
consciousness and the Mind.
Okay so, as I say, most other scientists of the Quantum are yet
"beating-around-the-bush". And perhaps the reason FOR such is that they do not
have a perspective - a world-view, die Weltanschauung - that allows them
to see the "Big Picture", but, instead, only those parts of it which they do
address. Of course, such IS the nature OF the scientific profession nowadays, as
Dr. Stapp has pointed out, enured (AND indoctrinated) as most physicists are by
the obsolete precepts of classical mechanics, where any and everything is
expected to be reducible to its (microcosmicly corporeal) parts and is then
explainable (as to its macrocosmic reality) as the "sum of its parts". And thus
we have the multitudes of "specializations", and disciplines of science, and
each scientist is attempting to explain the elephant by explaining the
elephant's right-toe-nail.
Okay, maybe I'm being a bit "perverse" here, in my rationale and symbolism,
but perhaps it is because of where I "come from". I am used to seeing - or at
least looking for - the "forest", rather than just the "trees" - to having a
"(w)holistic" perspective, about Life and All That Is. Okay, maybe this IS
theology, rather than scientific-methodology, speaking. If so, perhaps there IS
a "worth", or value, to the Theology of Reality, AS applied TO Quantum Physics
and the scientific......a theological-scientific "interpretation" OF the
dynamics of the brain, mind and consciousness.
SO, whatever and however the case (of the other scientists of the Quantum),
this scientist of the Quantum has chosen to look at, and for, the "Big Picture",
of consciousness AND of All That Is, in the Cosmos and beyond! What this means
is that I, humbly and reverentially, with all due respect for and to those other
scientists of the Quantum (who have made their contributions to the progress
which has resulted in the point where we, the human civilization that does now
exist on this world, are today), have taken such "discoveries" and principles of
the Quantum, AND, in "adding" my own education and experience, from both my
corporeal AND incorporeal "existences" (including the realities of my immortal
Soul), have thusly produced my own "formulations" and conceptualizations (FROM
the realities which have been shown to me) OF the Quantum Physics of the Mind,
brain and consciousness.
In using my theological-scientific perspectives, AND in supplying additional
facts and realities from my extra-secular (non-secular) sources (the OA/OWB, the
Collective and the Hall of Records), I have merely put together a "Big Picture"
that did, already, exist in reality. All I have done is "paint the picture" that
was already there, or "sculpt" the statue that was already there. AND, in doing
so, as far as I know, I have NOT violated ANY truths or realities of existence.
For, in all of these new "formulations" and concepts (new for secularity, but
not for non-secularity), the existential realities of what the secular
"proponents" do, and have, proposed, do YET generally hold. Quantum physicists
will find that any and all principia of the Quantum, AS they do understand such,
MAY as yet apply to what has been presented and proposed here by this researcher
(and IF there is any "discrepancy", I'd venture to say that it is perhaps the
secular "version" of such controversial principle that may need revision and
restatement). And religionists, and others of theological persuasion and
concern, will find that there is NO "discrepancy" with the Spiritual and Cosmic
Laws of the Universe, AS they do understand such (and IF there IS any such
"heresy", of secular religious "law", perhaps it is the secular version of
Christian Spirituality and God's Law of One which is "heretical", and in need of
revision).
Thusly, I, Father Jerome, have, using the principles and Laws of the Cosmos,
of QUFD (as I have formulated such AND as has been "shown" to me) and of my
educational background in Quantum Physics and the Theology of Reality, so
"created" a new, and updated, "version" of the realities OF Consciousness and of
the dynamics OF the human brain/Mind "interface" WITH All That Is, in the Cosmos
and beyond! I trust that such KNOWING, as I have so presented herein these
Works, does provide all of humanity with those realities of KNOWING and of
Consciousness, AS SHALL enable one and all TO "get back in control" of each and
everyone's Life and to DO that which may be necessary to so propel and enable us
- mankind - to "go forth" INTO that future which IS our Destiny!
Aum, Peace, Amen!
Jerome
Father Jerome's online RESEARCH REPORT, "An
Evolutionary Maturity of the Human Mind", by Jerome.
Also see Father Jerome's BLOG, for info about his latest Book,
"God, Lucifer and You! A ScienceBook of Quantum Physics and Reality, for 5 year old Kids and Adults!"