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     In Quantum Self,  philosopher Danah Zohar , proposes that consciousness act as the bridge between the classical world and the quantum world. One of Quantum Mechanics' shortcomings is that it doesn't truly explain how reality emerges from the quantum world of elementary particles and probability waves. Zohar believes that the answer has always been in the theory, and that we simply refused to take it at face value. She subscribes to the thesis of Bose-Einstein condensation advocated by Ian Marshall, which basically reduces mind/body duality to wave/particle duality.       Particles divide into fermions (such as electrons, protons, neutrons) and bosons (photons, gravitons, gluon). Bosons are particle of "relationship", as they are used to interact. When two systems interact (electricity, gravitation or whatever), they exchange bosons. Fermions are well-defined individual entities, just like large-scale matter is. But bosons can completely merge and become one entity, more like conscious states do. Therefore, she claims that bosons are the basis for the conscious life, and fermions for the material life.

 

   

 

 

Using Quantum Mechanics to

Explain the Mind

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  The properties of matter would arise from the properties of fermions. Matter is solid because fermions cannot merge. On the other hand, the properties of mind would arise from the properties of bosons: they can share the same state and they are about relationships. This would also explain how there can be a "self". The brain changes all the time and therefore the "self" is never the same. I am never myself again. How can there be a sense of "self"? Zohar thinks that the self does change all the time, but quantum interference makes each new self sprout from the old selves. Wave functions of past selves overlap with the wave function of the current self.            

                   Through this "quantum memory" each self reincarnates past selves. Zohar's quantum self is a "fluid" self, not a static self. One more time, it is the wave aspect of nature that makes a self possible, regardless of the fact that the matter of the brain changes all the time. By the same token, a self is woven into the waves of other selves and therefore becomes part of a bigger entity. This reading has provided a solid platform for my concept that accepts duality as part of reality and helps to explain some of the controversial aspects of our existence.

                                                 The quantum society is flexible, evolving, and ambiguous. In short, it reflects the idea of society as a living system. The authors use the language of physics to provide the images and metaphors appropriate for understanding the principles that inform this system, bringing into focus our harmonious place within the natural world

Using Quantum Physics for Transforming Society

 

In The Quantum Sociey Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall offer a  vision for transforming society using the insights of quantum physics to illuminate their ideas. Diversity, they suggest, is the creative evolutionary force, and the more diverse the society, the greater the opportunity for transformation and growth. Their theory of cosmic and social evolution allows us to discover the meaning and purpose of society through an appreciation and understanding of pluralistic thinking. The result is an all-embracing social model that celebrates the dynamic unity that is possible when we work together to orchestrate and articulate our interdependence.

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