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    Schrödinger and the conscious universe

    This is a good explanation of quantum physics if you pay enough attention to the article. It also shows that perhaps religion throughout history was the precursor to modern quantum physics.

    You'll have to read the entire article to hope to understand it.

    Schrödinger and the conscious universe

    The total number of minds in the universe is one

    Most assume that matter is fundamental, and that consciousness arises out of the complexity of matter. But Nobel Prize winning quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger does not share that assumption. For him, the universe contains a single mind, writes Robert Prentner and Donald D. Hoffman.

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    In February 1943, Erwin Schrödinger, quantum physicist and Nobel laureate (sharing his prize with Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg), gave a series of lectures at Trinity College Dublin, which later turned into his book “What is life?” [1]. This work has been highly influential for a generation of molecular biologists such as Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of DNA. Less known perhaps is the fact that during his whole life Schrödinger was an ardent reader of philosophy from the East and West. From the 1950s on, when Schrödinger ceased to actively work on the physics of his time, he focused more on wider philosophical and ethical issues related to science. Back then, his conferences always ended with what he jokingly called the “second Schrödinger equation”: “Atman = Brahman”, the Indian doctrine of identity.


    The present article investigates some of these ideas and gives them a reading in terms of a recent theory of consciousness. We believe that, just as Schrödinger’s ideas on the physical basis of life have inspired groundbreaking work in molecular biology, his ideas on mind and reality might inspire groundbreaking work in understanding the nature of consciousness and its relation to physics.


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    Early on, Schrödinger expressed the conviction that metaphysics does not come after physics, but inevitably precedes it. Metaphysics is not a deductive affair but a speculative one.
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    The Accidental Universe that created consciousness as some fluke of nature is very outdated science.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    The Accidental Universe that created consciousness as some fluke of nature is very outdated science.
    That science assumes an "accidental universe" exists. Many still cling to it.

    If one follows the science, an accidental universe is simply impossible.

    Pre big bang there was zero space, zero time, zero energy and zero matter ... hence there was nothing to accidentally, bang nor anywhere for it to bang into or from.

    Back to Schrodinger, existence does not seem to appear without a conscious observer ... so what consciousness observed the big bang?
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    Quote Originally Posted by LWW View Post
    That science assumes an "accidental universe" exists. Many still cling to it.

    If one follows the science, an accidental universe is simply impossible.

    Pre big bang there was zero space, zero time, zero energy and zero matter ... hence there was nothing to accidentally, bang nor anywhere for it to bang into or from.

    Back to Schrodinger, existence does not seem to appear without a conscious observer ... so what consciousness observed the big bang?
    Existence above the quantum level doesn't appear to exist without an observer.
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