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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Precognition and Quantum Physics 1
- Message-ID: <BzpCM8.537@well.sf.ca.us>
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:54:08 GMT
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- I have been asked (by Dr. Rubik) to comment on the book The
- Interelationship Between Mind and Matter, Proceedings of a Conference
- Histed by the Center for Frontier Sciences of Temple University eidted by
- Dr. Beverely Rubik.
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- The book covers many disciplines and I am only competent to comment on the
- physics part.
-
- Pop-physics author F. David Peat has a paper "A Science of Harmony and
- Gentle Action". I think the term "gentle action" is due to Geoffrey Chew.
- Peat, and others, make some interesting qualitative remarks. It would be
- good if the book could be expanded to include more mathematical technical
- appendices. For example, Peat writes:
-
- "Vanishingly small effects, such as boundary conditions, when coordinated
- in a nonlocal way will drive a sensitive non-linear system, and the effect
- of small changes on chaotic systems is already well known. It is suggested
- that such subtle effects may play a key role in biological systems so that
- 'information' enfolded within the form of the wave function may be
- delocalized throughout such systems. An obvious example is the human brain
- and nervous system in which, to take a single instance, memory does not
- appear to be encoded in any local way, but is distributed over the brain.
- In a similar way an over all 'meaning' may be involved in the operation of
- the immune system." (p.191)
-
- Peat is alluding to nonlocality across the space of the brain at a fixed
- time but I also think that a nonlocality across time in both directions
- (retarded and advanced) from the 'present' may also play a role. Fred Hoyle
- has developed that idea in his 1986 book, The Intelligent Universe.
-
- The basic problem in using the "precognitive" nonlocal quantum connection
- as an information-processing system is the apparent "unitarity barrier"
- preventing the local decoding of nonlocal connection signals. Such
- connection signals are not signals in the ordinary sense. They do not
- require the direct propagation of energy from transmitter to receiver
- within space-time as ordinary forces do.
-
- However, two factors seem to conspire to defeat every attempt to trick
- Nature into allowing us the practical use of the quantum connection as a
- communication channel. The first factor is the invariance of inner products
- of quantum states under the unitary time evolutions between non-unitary
- measurements. The second factor is the completeness of the set of final
- states for the detection of the "transmitter particle" in a quantum
- connected particle pair.
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