Well...I can't do all this math..but I agree that "new age" is BS..and the father of the New age is? Would that be Carl Jung?
So allow me to get a more scientific view of the "new age" of Consciousness with a twist
Retrocausality and Signal Nonlocality in
Consciousness and Cosmology
Jack Sarfatti
ISEP.
Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
ABSTRACT
I conjecture that the intrinsic conscious mental field is analogous to a hologram
described by a low frequency effective field nonlinear dissipative (non-unitary) local
macro quantum coherent c-number multi-component order parameter. This order
parameter landscape in our brain obeys a Landau-Ginzburg type equation for a non equilibrium
dissipative structure with signal non locality violating microscopic
orthodox quantum theory. Therefore, different parts of the brain can locally decode
messages from other distant parts without having to wait for classical electrical and
chemical signal keys to move slower than light. The coherent order parameter
landscape is phase and amplitude locked into the distributed pattern of the electrical
and chemical signals both for sensory input and motor output in a set of creative
feedback-control loops. The imprinting action of the electrical and chemical signal
patterns on the intrinsically mental landscape excites our inner conscious qualia and
explains the âbinding problemâ of how the conscious mind has an undivided
wholeness. The piloting reaction of those excitations in the mental landscape back
on the electrical and chemical signal pattern is our volition in which thought is
expressed in our motor behavior. The application of similar ideas to the
cosmological dark energy and arrow of time problems is also discussed. Indeed, I
suggest that the dark energy accelerating the universe is advanced Hawking-Unruh
black body radiation from our future observer-dependent cosmological event
horizon.
Keywords: retro-causality, signal non locality, conscious qualia, holography, arrow
of time, horizons, dark energy, de Sitter space, Unruh effect, cosmological
constant paradox, Wheeler-Feynman advanced radiation
"Science proceeds as if the past was the home of explanation; whereas the future and the
future alone holds the key to the mysteries of the present. When that first cell divided, the
meaning of that division was to be discovered in the future, not in the past; when some
pre-human ancestor first uttered a human sound, the significance of that sound was to be
interpreted by human language, not by apish grunts; when the first plant showed
solicitude for its seed, the interest of that solicitude lay in the promise of maternal
affection. Things must be judged in the light of the coming morning, not in the setting
stars." (Sedgwick, 1916)
There is now ample independent reproducible evidence in many published papers (Bem,
2011), (Bierman, 2008; Libet, 1979; Radin, 2004) for back-from-the-future
âpresponseâ in human consciousness (Stapp, 1996). Yakir Aharonov (Aharonov,1998) in
his back-from-the-future version of quantum theory argues that unlike classical
mechanics, in quantum mechanics the initial pre-selected and final post-selected
conditions are truly independent. Indeed, the uncontrollable randomness of Heisenbergâs
microscope uncertainty gedanken experiment only occurs because we integrate out the
final condition in our intermediate observations. Aharonov shows with actual
experiments using weak measurements that the statistical ensemble expectation values
need two quantum state vectors instead of the usual one. For example, in addition to the
retarded Dirac âbraâ history propagating from the past preselected initial condition to
the present intermediate measurement, we also need the advanced Dirac âketâ
destiny propagating back-from-the-future post-selected final condition to the present.
The present weak measurement expectation value in standard Dirac notation is different
from the von-Neumann projection postulate for strong measurements, namely
A w ! history ËA destiny history | destiny (1.1)
Aharonov and his students speculate that a final condition in our future retro-causally
influences the past evolution of life on Earth. On the other hand, Michael Nauenberg
wrote:
âThe claim of Aharonov et al. that at various stages of the measurement process,
ensembles can be separated into sub-ensembles which can be associated with quantum
states, leads to contradictions with the principles of quantum mechanics, and gives
rise to the paradoxes of âimpossible ensemblesâ discussed in their article. Their unphysical
description of the measurement process, leads them to the false conclusion
that âquantum mechanics offers a place to specify both an initial and an independent final
state", and to such outlandish statements like âthat quantum mechanics lets one impose . .
. a putative final state of the universeâ." (Nauenberg, 2011)
Aharonovâs theory is still limited by what Abner Shimony calls âpassion at a distanceâ
aka signal locality. Signal locality precludes using nonlocal quantum entanglement as a
stand-alone communication channel. This means that any attempt to encode and send a
message from one part of an entangled system to another part will only show random
noise at that second part. Decoding the non locally entangled stored message always
requires an additional classical signal or âkeyâ to break the code. Brian Josephson
(Josephson, 1991) and myself (Sarfatti, 1998) independently suggested ways out of this
Catch 22 involving generalizing quantum theory with âsignal non localityâ very much like
the transition from special to general relativity where non-unitarity of the time evolution
of the quantum state is analogous to non-vanishing curvature. Antony Valentini published
detailed formal papers asserting that âsub-quantal non-equilibriumâ of Bohmâs âhidden
variablesâ permits signal non locality with profound consequences for quantum
cryptography (Valentini, 2002). In addition, the discovery of dark energy accelerating the
expansion of our observable universe is evidence for the idea that we are retro-causal
back-from-the-future hologram image computations from our future cosmological event
horizon (Davis, 2003) whose increasing area-entropy from the moment of inflation
almost trivially explains the irreversible arrow of time.
âQuantum correlations display a subtle non locality. On the one hand, as Bell showed,
quantum correlations could not arise in any theory in which all variables obey
relativistic causality. On the other hand, quantum correlations themselves obey
relativistic causalityâwe cannot exploit quantum correlations to transmit signals at
super luminal speeds (or at any speed). âŚ. Non locality and causality seem prima facie
incompatible. Einsteinâs causality contradicts Newtonâs action at a distance. Yet quantum
correlations do not permit action at a distance, and Shimony has aptly called the
nonlocality manifest in quantum correlations âpassion at a distance.â
(Popescu & Rohrlich,1996)
On the other hand, Antony Valentini wrote:
âIt is argued that immense physical resources - for non local communication, espionage,
and exponentially-fast computation - are hidden from us by quantum noise, and that this
noise is not fundamental but merely a property of an equilibrium state in which the
universe happens to be at the present time. It is suggested that 'non-quantum' or
nonequilibrium matter might exist today in the form of relic particles from the early
universe. We describe how such matter could be detected and put to practical use.
Nonequilibrium matter could be used to send instantaneous signals, to violate the
uncertainty principle, to distinguish non-orthogonal quantum states without disturbing
them, to eavesdrop on quantum key distribution, and to outpace quantum computation
(solving NP-complete problems in polynomial time).â (Valentini, 2002)
I assume here as a fact that we have unconscious neurological responses before the
external stimuli. This cannot be explained by orthodox quantum theory because this
presponse is non-random violating the no-signaling with entanglement theorem based on
unitary time evolution of the quantum wave function and the usual Born probability
interpretation. The latter rule is that the squared modulus of the complex-valued quantum
wave function is the probability density in configuration space for position measurements
of many entangled particles. In Feynmanâs global path integral picture we coherently
square the sum of the amplitudes for indistinguishable histories, but not for
distinguishable histories.
Furthermore, I suggest that all living matter is ânon equilibriumâ in Valentiniâs âsubquantalâ
sense within Bohmâs ontological interpretation of quantum theory. The latter
pictures real electrons and other particles on definite space time trajectories influenced by
the non local context-dependent quantum potential as well as the classical local gauge
electro-weak-strong forces. Therefore, we can apply ordinary non-equilibrium statistical
mechanics because the âhidden variablesâ are not really âhiddenâ at all but correspond
pretty much to our usual classical pictures contrary to Bohrâs position in his debate with
Einstein. All the quantum weirdness is in the quantum potential Q for fermions and its
generalization to boson field theory. Orthodox quantum theory corresponding to âsubquantal
thermodynamic equilibriumâ of the hidden variable particles corresponds to a
âfragileâ quantum potential Q. âFragileâ in this context was coined by Bohm and Hiley in
their book âThe Undivided Universeâ. It means that the hidden variables are test particles
that are piloted by Q, but do not directly back-react on it. Such direct back-reaction
would permit stabilizing feedback-control loops between the entangled particles and their
shared Q. Pumping by an external flow of energy should establish sub-quantal non equilibrium
and long-range coherence analogous to a laser above threshold. The material
hidden variables are then no longer passive test particles at the mercy of their intrinsically
thought like Q, but modify it whilst being moved by it. This change in the shape of the Q
landscape is the origin of all conscious qualia. (Stapp, 1996) Thatâs the model.
Mathematically, in the simplest case of two identical entangled point particles in the slow
speed non-relativistic limit, the extended post-quantum theory has a post-quantum potential
The rest of the paper...as I don't want to waste bandwidth.
http://journalofcosmology.com/SarfattiConsciousness.pdf
Quite interesting....consciousness with a scientific twist....but hey...what the heck do I know? Very interesting theory's here however. And I will close this with this portion.......
The âCatch 22â forbidding the use of non local entanglement as a stand-alone
communication channel depends on the linearity and unitary time evolution of the
Schrodinger equation in the configuration space for many particles. We can also use the
Wigner phase space density, but there is no new physics there relevant to our quest for
signal non locality. However, spontaneous symmetry breakdown of an invariance group G
of the dynamical action means that the ground state for real particles (and the vacuum
state for virtual particles) is described by the emergence of off-diagonal-long-range-order
(ODLRO) in the quantum correlation functions that obey a Landau-Ginzburg equation.
The formation of ordinary crystals, superconductors, and the Higgs mechanism in the
standard model of quarks, leptons and gauge bosons correspond to G = T3, U1 and SU2
respectively. This mechanism gives macro-quantum long range phase coherence in an
effective order parameter c-number theory whose dynamical equation is nonlinear, non unitary
and local in ordinary space time. Therefore, the necessary conditions for passion
at a distance no longer obtain. This is what happens in all living matter in my opinion
corresponding to Brian Josephsonâs idea of the biological utilization of non locality. Of
course small vibrations in the macro-quantum coherent c-number will obey the usual
quantum randomness with a linear unitary evolution in the configuration space of the
vibrating quasi-particles and collective modes. The coherent order parameter is a source
and sink for these incoherent quantum vibrations of its amplitudes and phases. The matter
quantum information wave and its boson particle hidden variables essentially fuse
together because a significant fraction of all the particles condense out of configuration
space to occupy the same single-particle quantum state in ordinary space.
Edit: I just found out......
Jack Sarfatti & Russell Targ are heading to Las Vegas to meet with 100 ex Army officers who do remote viewing.
So allow me to get a more scientific view of the "new age" of Consciousness with a twist
Retrocausality and Signal Nonlocality in
Consciousness and Cosmology
Jack Sarfatti
ISEP.
Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
ABSTRACT
I conjecture that the intrinsic conscious mental field is analogous to a hologram
described by a low frequency effective field nonlinear dissipative (non-unitary) local
macro quantum coherent c-number multi-component order parameter. This order
parameter landscape in our brain obeys a Landau-Ginzburg type equation for a non equilibrium
dissipative structure with signal non locality violating microscopic
orthodox quantum theory. Therefore, different parts of the brain can locally decode
messages from other distant parts without having to wait for classical electrical and
chemical signal keys to move slower than light. The coherent order parameter
landscape is phase and amplitude locked into the distributed pattern of the electrical
and chemical signals both for sensory input and motor output in a set of creative
feedback-control loops. The imprinting action of the electrical and chemical signal
patterns on the intrinsically mental landscape excites our inner conscious qualia and
explains the âbinding problemâ of how the conscious mind has an undivided
wholeness. The piloting reaction of those excitations in the mental landscape back
on the electrical and chemical signal pattern is our volition in which thought is
expressed in our motor behavior. The application of similar ideas to the
cosmological dark energy and arrow of time problems is also discussed. Indeed, I
suggest that the dark energy accelerating the universe is advanced Hawking-Unruh
black body radiation from our future observer-dependent cosmological event
horizon.
Keywords: retro-causality, signal non locality, conscious qualia, holography, arrow
of time, horizons, dark energy, de Sitter space, Unruh effect, cosmological
constant paradox, Wheeler-Feynman advanced radiation
"Science proceeds as if the past was the home of explanation; whereas the future and the
future alone holds the key to the mysteries of the present. When that first cell divided, the
meaning of that division was to be discovered in the future, not in the past; when some
pre-human ancestor first uttered a human sound, the significance of that sound was to be
interpreted by human language, not by apish grunts; when the first plant showed
solicitude for its seed, the interest of that solicitude lay in the promise of maternal
affection. Things must be judged in the light of the coming morning, not in the setting
stars." (Sedgwick, 1916)
There is now ample independent reproducible evidence in many published papers (Bem,
2011), (Bierman, 2008; Libet, 1979; Radin, 2004) for back-from-the-future
âpresponseâ in human consciousness (Stapp, 1996). Yakir Aharonov (Aharonov,1998) in
his back-from-the-future version of quantum theory argues that unlike classical
mechanics, in quantum mechanics the initial pre-selected and final post-selected
conditions are truly independent. Indeed, the uncontrollable randomness of Heisenbergâs
microscope uncertainty gedanken experiment only occurs because we integrate out the
final condition in our intermediate observations. Aharonov shows with actual
experiments using weak measurements that the statistical ensemble expectation values
need two quantum state vectors instead of the usual one. For example, in addition to the
retarded Dirac âbraâ history propagating from the past preselected initial condition to
the present intermediate measurement, we also need the advanced Dirac âketâ
destiny propagating back-from-the-future post-selected final condition to the present.
The present weak measurement expectation value in standard Dirac notation is different
from the von-Neumann projection postulate for strong measurements, namely
A w ! history ËA destiny history | destiny (1.1)
Aharonov and his students speculate that a final condition in our future retro-causally
influences the past evolution of life on Earth. On the other hand, Michael Nauenberg
wrote:
âThe claim of Aharonov et al. that at various stages of the measurement process,
ensembles can be separated into sub-ensembles which can be associated with quantum
states, leads to contradictions with the principles of quantum mechanics, and gives
rise to the paradoxes of âimpossible ensemblesâ discussed in their article. Their unphysical
description of the measurement process, leads them to the false conclusion
that âquantum mechanics offers a place to specify both an initial and an independent final
state", and to such outlandish statements like âthat quantum mechanics lets one impose . .
. a putative final state of the universeâ." (Nauenberg, 2011)
Aharonovâs theory is still limited by what Abner Shimony calls âpassion at a distanceâ
aka signal locality. Signal locality precludes using nonlocal quantum entanglement as a
stand-alone communication channel. This means that any attempt to encode and send a
message from one part of an entangled system to another part will only show random
noise at that second part. Decoding the non locally entangled stored message always
requires an additional classical signal or âkeyâ to break the code. Brian Josephson
(Josephson, 1991) and myself (Sarfatti, 1998) independently suggested ways out of this
Catch 22 involving generalizing quantum theory with âsignal non localityâ very much like
the transition from special to general relativity where non-unitarity of the time evolution
of the quantum state is analogous to non-vanishing curvature. Antony Valentini published
detailed formal papers asserting that âsub-quantal non-equilibriumâ of Bohmâs âhidden
variablesâ permits signal non locality with profound consequences for quantum
cryptography (Valentini, 2002). In addition, the discovery of dark energy accelerating the
expansion of our observable universe is evidence for the idea that we are retro-causal
back-from-the-future hologram image computations from our future cosmological event
horizon (Davis, 2003) whose increasing area-entropy from the moment of inflation
almost trivially explains the irreversible arrow of time.
âQuantum correlations display a subtle non locality. On the one hand, as Bell showed,
quantum correlations could not arise in any theory in which all variables obey
relativistic causality. On the other hand, quantum correlations themselves obey
relativistic causalityâwe cannot exploit quantum correlations to transmit signals at
super luminal speeds (or at any speed). âŚ. Non locality and causality seem prima facie
incompatible. Einsteinâs causality contradicts Newtonâs action at a distance. Yet quantum
correlations do not permit action at a distance, and Shimony has aptly called the
nonlocality manifest in quantum correlations âpassion at a distance.â
(Popescu & Rohrlich,1996)
On the other hand, Antony Valentini wrote:
âIt is argued that immense physical resources - for non local communication, espionage,
and exponentially-fast computation - are hidden from us by quantum noise, and that this
noise is not fundamental but merely a property of an equilibrium state in which the
universe happens to be at the present time. It is suggested that 'non-quantum' or
nonequilibrium matter might exist today in the form of relic particles from the early
universe. We describe how such matter could be detected and put to practical use.
Nonequilibrium matter could be used to send instantaneous signals, to violate the
uncertainty principle, to distinguish non-orthogonal quantum states without disturbing
them, to eavesdrop on quantum key distribution, and to outpace quantum computation
(solving NP-complete problems in polynomial time).â (Valentini, 2002)
I assume here as a fact that we have unconscious neurological responses before the
external stimuli. This cannot be explained by orthodox quantum theory because this
presponse is non-random violating the no-signaling with entanglement theorem based on
unitary time evolution of the quantum wave function and the usual Born probability
interpretation. The latter rule is that the squared modulus of the complex-valued quantum
wave function is the probability density in configuration space for position measurements
of many entangled particles. In Feynmanâs global path integral picture we coherently
square the sum of the amplitudes for indistinguishable histories, but not for
distinguishable histories.
Furthermore, I suggest that all living matter is ânon equilibriumâ in Valentiniâs âsubquantalâ
sense within Bohmâs ontological interpretation of quantum theory. The latter
pictures real electrons and other particles on definite space time trajectories influenced by
the non local context-dependent quantum potential as well as the classical local gauge
electro-weak-strong forces. Therefore, we can apply ordinary non-equilibrium statistical
mechanics because the âhidden variablesâ are not really âhiddenâ at all but correspond
pretty much to our usual classical pictures contrary to Bohrâs position in his debate with
Einstein. All the quantum weirdness is in the quantum potential Q for fermions and its
generalization to boson field theory. Orthodox quantum theory corresponding to âsubquantal
thermodynamic equilibriumâ of the hidden variable particles corresponds to a
âfragileâ quantum potential Q. âFragileâ in this context was coined by Bohm and Hiley in
their book âThe Undivided Universeâ. It means that the hidden variables are test particles
that are piloted by Q, but do not directly back-react on it. Such direct back-reaction
would permit stabilizing feedback-control loops between the entangled particles and their
shared Q. Pumping by an external flow of energy should establish sub-quantal non equilibrium
and long-range coherence analogous to a laser above threshold. The material
hidden variables are then no longer passive test particles at the mercy of their intrinsically
thought like Q, but modify it whilst being moved by it. This change in the shape of the Q
landscape is the origin of all conscious qualia. (Stapp, 1996) Thatâs the model.
Mathematically, in the simplest case of two identical entangled point particles in the slow
speed non-relativistic limit, the extended post-quantum theory has a post-quantum potential
The rest of the paper...as I don't want to waste bandwidth.
http://journalofcosmology.com/SarfattiConsciousness.pdf
Quite interesting....consciousness with a scientific twist....but hey...what the heck do I know? Very interesting theory's here however. And I will close this with this portion.......
âWe will show that a most relevant feature of ME is its enhanced stability against
thermal decoherence, even by several orders of magnitude, compared to the case of
simple LDE ⌠From the point of view of consciousness studies, this and other papers
concerned with quantum features in proteins involved in photosynthesis look to sound the
death knell for the recent orthodoxy that quantum features could not persist in biological
tissues, thus leaving the road open for the possibility of quantum coherence and
entanglement in the brain.â (Guadli, 2011)
thermal decoherence, even by several orders of magnitude, compared to the case of
simple LDE ⌠From the point of view of consciousness studies, this and other papers
concerned with quantum features in proteins involved in photosynthesis look to sound the
death knell for the recent orthodoxy that quantum features could not persist in biological
tissues, thus leaving the road open for the possibility of quantum coherence and
entanglement in the brain.â (Guadli, 2011)
The âCatch 22â forbidding the use of non local entanglement as a stand-alone
communication channel depends on the linearity and unitary time evolution of the
Schrodinger equation in the configuration space for many particles. We can also use the
Wigner phase space density, but there is no new physics there relevant to our quest for
signal non locality. However, spontaneous symmetry breakdown of an invariance group G
of the dynamical action means that the ground state for real particles (and the vacuum
state for virtual particles) is described by the emergence of off-diagonal-long-range-order
(ODLRO) in the quantum correlation functions that obey a Landau-Ginzburg equation.
The formation of ordinary crystals, superconductors, and the Higgs mechanism in the
standard model of quarks, leptons and gauge bosons correspond to G = T3, U1 and SU2
respectively. This mechanism gives macro-quantum long range phase coherence in an
effective order parameter c-number theory whose dynamical equation is nonlinear, non unitary
and local in ordinary space time. Therefore, the necessary conditions for passion
at a distance no longer obtain. This is what happens in all living matter in my opinion
corresponding to Brian Josephsonâs idea of the biological utilization of non locality. Of
course small vibrations in the macro-quantum coherent c-number will obey the usual
quantum randomness with a linear unitary evolution in the configuration space of the
vibrating quasi-particles and collective modes. The coherent order parameter is a source
and sink for these incoherent quantum vibrations of its amplitudes and phases. The matter
quantum information wave and its boson particle hidden variables essentially fuse
together because a significant fraction of all the particles condense out of configuration
space to occupy the same single-particle quantum state in ordinary space.
Edit: I just found out......
Jack Sarfatti & Russell Targ are heading to Las Vegas to meet with 100 ex Army officers who do remote viewing.














