Quantum Everything

There is no way back to simple materialism

By 1900, physicists were pretty confident that they had found a deterministic substructure underpinning the workings of nature. The whole Western world could see the resulting technological triumphs and enbraced the materialist philosophy pervading science.
By 2000, physicists are less confident with their intuition and understanding and they can find no way back by any plausible route to the old established classical foundations of physics.

There is no way back to simple separability

Experiments confirm quantum theory which reveals correlations between separate events with no deterministic link between them.
This "passion at a distance" is counter-intuitive, even "spookey", but quantum theory seems inescapably to encompass non-locality, or verifyable non-separability of 'separated' (entangled) objects.
Even the past, present and future are tied together in unexpected ways. A more unified theory reveals a more unified world.

Reality beckons a deeper meaning

Virtual reality has loosened the old solid notion of reality, as had already happened earlier with radio and TV.
Our gagets are shrinking in size and simultaneously they are becoming more powerful than we could ever have imagined.
Quantum theory leads to a paradigm shift, perhaps as significant as what happened through understanding electromagnetism.
Sometime modern physics will be assimilated into popular currency and will lead to the adoption of a radically new conception of reality, which we may call complexity.

There is genuine cause for optimism

There seems no limit to 20^st century human imagination and inginuity, from local WiFi to a global network linking you to your friends and beyond.
The last 50 years has produced two new fundamental theories that have the potential to change our world as much as the theory of electromagnetism already has. They are electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics.
Popular Mechanics magazine (1949) said, "Computers in the future may weigh less than 1½ tons." See how much technology has advanced, mostly through quantum theory!

There is also real cause for concern right now

Physics has provided sufficient understanding of our world to enable foolish men to destroy civilization. We cannot allow world-destroying weapons to be deployed.
We are plundering the finite resources of the Earth without sufficient restraint. We have to act responsibly with our new power tools.
How would our society respond to protracted cuts in internet connectivity, the electricity supply, the food supply .. ?
Given our large debts, even a small increase in interest rates can make repayments impossible without incurring significant further debt. The whole financial system is poised to collapse.
How long will it be before we all accept electronic or biological nano-implants that define our public identity, determine our spending power and modify our behaviour? Here arise many new ethical questions, all pressing for appropriate public discussion and agreement.

 What we need to understand...

 Unity Consciousness

• Classical physics is unable to incorporate consciousness because inanimate objects, like bricks, are categorically different from subjective ideas, like hunger.
• The brain harbours a secret because no amount of ordinary matter can conceivably become aware.
• No arrangement of ordinary matter, however complex, can generate the mind that we experience.
• Our science is missing something important. Ordinary matter is more than ordinary matter.
• Human intelligence is more than super-fast algorithmic processing or AI.
• Psychotropic drugs reveal mind in a way which is practically unexplored by orthodox psychology.

 The Perfect Observer

• Everyone should aspire to be wiser because wisdom is our highest expression of understanding and good judgement.
• You are the perfect observer when you realize you are.
• One goal is to understand the foundation or origin of ego or self or soul or spirit.
• Look to quantum matter for a theory of mind because quantum theory is the deepest universal theory we have.
• Beware. In the midst of a revolution in our thinking, powerful reactionary responses are to be expected.

 Beyond Reason

• If it is impossible to embed quantum logic inside classical logic then classical reasoning may be superceded by some higher quantum reasoning.
• There may be a deeper way to argue and understand beyond propositional or first order logic. We might be quantum computers!
• Postmodernists have foolishly abandoned reason rather than gone beyond it.
• What is Superman or Vivekananda or Buddha or Jesus supposed to be thinking like?
• This is what I mean by "beyond reason" - a new quantum epistemology which is yet to be properly clarified.

 Beyond Reality

• The world appears as a patently evident, authentic, indubitable, real presence. What more does one want?
• Quantum theory is a world of wave functions in high dimensional configuration space which take quantum logic, ontology and epistemology and combine them intimately into a new consistent noumenal whole metaphysics.
• Relativistic quantum theory mathematically fits the scientific evidence like a glove. (Therefore it should be believed with very high confidence.)
• The world is to be understood through new mathematics beyond straight lines and real numbers.
• At school we became familiar with arithmetic and Euclidean geometry. Now we have to learn Riemannian geometry, complex analysis and Hilbert space theory.
• Mathematical operators, representing observation, act on mathematical functions, completely representing some isolated state of the world, to expose the real world (which has not evaporated). But beyond the real world is a complex world to which observation is directed.
• Linear algebra must be assimilated before a world described by complex state vectors can become meaningful and familiar.
• This is what I mean by "beyond reality" - a new quantum ontology which is yet to be properly clarified.

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There is only one consciousness, the one that YOU inhabit and inhabits YOU. Its contents include evidence of reality. From this perspective you can appreciate the possibility of a fundamentally different understanding of the outside world. This new paradigm may be instrumental in averting disaster by exposing the roots of moral responsibility (ego) and the possibility of higher states of consciousness.