Elusive Consciousness

Author(s): Narendra Bhandari, Surendrasingh Pokharana, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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3.6 Process of measurement in quantum mechanics takes away information
As is well known, all quantum mechanical systems have several Eigen states and after a measurement, the system collapses into one of the Eigen state. The probability of finding any of the Eigen state is determined by the Schrodinger equation. Since the process of measurement results into just one Eigen state only, information about other Eigen states is lost due to the process of measurement. Hence again, it is impossible to get complete information about a quantum mechanical system. These days, the wavefunction is therefore known as a "wavefunction of ignorance" . Here again we see limitations of scientific knowledge.
4. NEED TO REALIZE THAT SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IS ONLY A
SUBSET OF THE TOTAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM AND ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE MIGHT BE STRUCTURED IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS:
These examples show that knowledge can be structured in the consciousness. Even the scientific knowledge is based on interpretation of the scientific experiments which are ultimately interpreted by the human consciousness. With the advent of science and technology, a misunderstanding and misconception has developed among the masses that the scientific knowledge is the only ultimate knowledge in the world. Not only this, it also presumed that the knowledge which is experimentally verifiable and repeatable at any place and at any time alone is the actual knowledge. This is far from the truth. The fact is that the so called science is just around 200 years old and the concept of knowledge existed much before that for several centuries. Vedas, Upnishads, Puranas, Agamas, Mahabharat and Ramayana, Koran, Bible have lot of knowledge about life and controls to be followed. Similarly technology of gold manufacturing in the ancient India, design of old temples etc involve knowledge, which need not be scientific. People working in the files of art, culture and sports have several different type of skill and knowledge, which need not be scientific. Actually the recent developments in computer science and neurobiology clearly show that knowledge is nothing but information organized in some way (Goldsmith 1990) and information in turn is just organization of data in some fashion. It is also realized that human consciousness (and even animal consciousness) is capable of organizing these data and can generate information and hence knowledge in some way. Therefore what we call as scientific knowledge is just a subset of this grand concept of knowledge, which can exist in the human consciousness. Because all interpretations of all
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