Tag: Consciousness
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ESSAY 3 — THE WITNESS
What remains when the observer cannot be found as an object Something has gone unnoticed in the course of the last two essays. Not a concept. Not an argument. Something closer to home than either. Essay 1 tracked the observer problem through a century of physics — from Young’s darkened room to Bell’s theorem —…
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Seven Notes on The Observer
Argument 1: The Question Physics Cannot Answer From Inside Physics, Why? Every experiment in quantum mechanics requires a specification of measurement — which introduces the question of the observer. Not metaphorically. Not as a poetic flourish. The mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics — the Schrödinger equation, the Born rule, the measurement problem — cannot be…
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Essay 2 — What is The Observer?
The structure of experience and the question physics left open The problem is no longer how the world is observed. The problem is what is doing the observing. Essay 1 arrived at a precise boundary. Quantum mechanics — the most empirically successful theory in the history of science — cannot be formulated without reference to…
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Essay 1 — The Observer Problem
What quantum mechanics uncovered — and could not explain In 1801, Thomas Young darkened a room, positioned a card with two narrow slits cut into it, and allowed a beam of light to pass through. What appeared on the screen behind it was not two bands of light — the result a common-sense particle theory…
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When Space Dissolves into Time: Quantum Physics Arrives at an Ancient Threshold
There is a particular kind of intellectual vertigo that strikes when two entirely independent traditions of inquiry converge on the same conclusion from opposite directions. Physics is currently experiencing exactly this. Recent research into holographic duality demonstrates that gravitational spacetime can emerge from an enormous number of entangled qubits — that the geometry we call…
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Biophotons, Consciousness, and the Spirit: Bridging Neuroscience and Indian Philosophy -01
Part I: Scientific Perspectives on Biophotons and Consciousness Recent scientific explorations have unveiled that neurons in mammalian brains emit photons, termed “biophotons,” spanning wavelengths from near-infrared to ultraviolet. This phenomenon has led to hypotheses suggesting that these biophotons might play roles in neural communication, potentially influenced by quantum entanglement, and possibly linked to consciousness. Intriguingly,…