Elusive Consciousness

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

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The interpretation of Copenhagen proposed by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, suggested a direct link between consciousness and Quantum Mechanics. This interpretation attributes to Consciousness an explicit role, through the act of measurement and observation, forcing the wave function to collapse into a particle and determining in this way reality itself. According to Bohr and Heisenberg consciousness would be an imminent property of reality which exists before the creation of reality. This idea is close to Jainism which also believes in soul, an entity different from matter.
Luigi Fantappiè: advanced waves and syntropy
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Fantappiè starts from the d'Alembert operator which in Klein-Gordon's relativistic generalization of Schrödinger's wave equation has two wave solutions: retarded waves which diverge from the past to the future and anticipated waves which diverge from the future to the past, and which for us, moving forward in time, correspond converging attractors/ absorbers (http://www.sintropia.it/english/2007-eng-1-3.pdf). Studying the the mathematical properties of these waves Fantappiè discovered that the diverging waves are governed by the law of entropy, whereas the converging waves are governed by a symmetrical law, which concentrates energy, produces differentiation, structures and order, and which Fantappiè named syntropy. Fantappiè recognized the properties of the law of syntropy in the living systems, and concluded that living systems are a consequence of anticipated waves. Starting from the mathematical properties of the laws of syntropy and entropy, Fantappiè arrived at the formulation of a model of consciousness based on the following elements:
Free will: which is generally considered a fundamental element of consciousness, is seen as the consequence of a permanent state of choice between information coming from the past and emotions coming from the future
Feeling of life: another basic component of consciousness is, according to Fantappiè, a direct consequence of waves moving backward in time, from the future to the past [anticipation].
Fantappie says that when physical senses vanish, as in deep meditation, people experience states of consciousness in which past, present and future coexist. The coexistence of past, present and future would be a direct consequence of the coexistence [materialization]of advancing and retarding waves. This idea can
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