Bohm’s Implicate Order, Wheeler’s Participatory Universe, Stapp’s Mindful Universe, Zurek’s Quantum Darwinism and the Buddhist Mind-Only Ground Consciousness
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: According to quantum physicist Erich Joos the following three issues are the outstanding quantum conundrums of deep significance: \n \n1.\tThe meaning of the wavefunction; \n2.\tThe exact nature of the mechanism of the collapse; \n3.\tThe connection between the quantum and classical realm. \n \nIn this paper I shall attempt to elucidate a possible approach to these central issues by drawing parallels between David Bohm’s notion of the implicate order, John Wheeler’s vision of the ‘Participatory Universe’, Henry Stapp’s account of the Heisenberg-von Neumann quantum ‘ontology’, Wojciech Zurek’s ‘Quantum Darwinism’ proposal and the Buddhist Mind-Only (Yogachara–Chittamatra) concept of the alayavijnana, the ground or store consciousness.
Author: Graham P. Smetham
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2238699263