Monday, August 08, 2005
The Trans-Quantum Mechanical Hypothesis of Consciousness
by W. Michael Breland, M.D., Ph.D.
Essay I, July 4, 1998
"Statement of the Hypothesis"
Hypothesis: Consciousness is that which has the ability to direct random quantum level events.
Quantum mechanical theory states that quantum level events can be predicted on a statistical level but that the outcome of a specific event cannot be known until it occurs. Thus, it is stated that the outcome of a specific quantum event is random. The word "random" is also used to describe the outcome of macroscopic events such as the throw of dice or the drawing of a lottery number. Thus, its meaning has come to describe an event that occurs simply by chance. These events are also usually able to be described by statistical mathematics. To use it to describe the outcome of events on the quantum level is an extension of the macroscopic meaning to the microscopic.
Specifically, quantum physicists state that while the outcome of individual quantum events is random, statistical mathematics can be used to accurately describe the probabilities of the different outcomes. From a quantum mechanical and mathematical point of view, this is correct. However, from the point of view of this hypothesis the outcome is not random, but directed by consciousness.
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