Quantum information, oscillations and the psyche
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uantum Information, Oscillations and the Psyche1 F. Martina, F. Carminatib, and G. Galli Carminatic a
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Universities Paris VI and VII, Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France email: [email protected] b Physicist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland email: [email protected] c Mental Development Psychiatry Unit–Adult Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland email: [email protected] Received February, 2009
Abstract—In this paper, taking the theory of quantum information as a model, we consider the human unconscious, preconsciousness and consciousness as sets of quantum bits (qubits). We view how there can be communication between these various qubit sets. In doing this we are inspired by the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance. In this way we build a model of handling a mental qubit with the help of pulses of a men tal field. Starting with an elementary interaction between two qubits we build twoqubit quantum logic gates that allow information to be transferred from one qubit to the other. In this manner we build a quantum pro cess that permits consciousness to “read” the unconscious and vice versa. The elementary interaction, e.g. between a preconsciousness qubit and a consciousness one, allows us to predict the time evolution of the pre consciousness + consciousness system in which preconsciousness and consciousness are quantum entan gled. This time evolution exhibits Rabi oscillations that we name mental Rabi oscillations. This time evolution shows how for example the unconscious can influence consciousness. In a process like mourning the influ ence of the unconscious on consciousness, as the influence of consciousness on the unconscious, are in agreement with what is observed in psychiatry. DOI: 10.1134/S1063779610030032 1
1. INTRODUCTION
For more than twenty years quantum models of consciousness have grown in number (see references [1–9] among others). Most of these models presup pose the existence in the brain of a quantum physical phenomenon that leads to the emergence of con sciousness. For some of them, this phenomenon is BoseEinstein condensation which shares with con sciousness the property to be global. However, about sixty years ago, following a differ ent approach, in the framework of theories consider ing dualaspect approaches of the mindmatter prob lem, Jung and Pauli had already assumed that the 2
human unconscious obeys quantum laws [10–13]. It is in this framework that Baaquie and Martin [9] pro posed a quantum field theory of the human psyche, this theory applying more to mental states than to 3
physical states of the brain.
1 The article is published in the original. 2 Concerning this subject we shall read with
interest the review of H. Atmanspacher, Quantum Approaches to Consciousness, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [14]. This paper reviews the situation on present quantum theories of consciousness. 3 Nevertheless one does not excl
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