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an Experimental breakthrough in the Quantum understanding of Telepathy
by Dr. Matti Pitkänen / October 19, 2009
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Telepathy by quantum entanglement is one of the basic ideas of TGD-inspired consciousness. This requires some new physics.
1. Macroscopic quantum coherence is needed in scales much longer than Standard Quantum Mechanics allows. Hierarchy of Planck constants makes this certainly possible. But one cannot exclude the possibility that mere magnetic flux tube-like structures is enough. I do not believe in this option.
2. The idea that entanglrment of selves gives rise to telepathy is plagued by a problem. In TGD framework, entanglement means a loss of consciousness at the level of both selves since it is the fusion of selves which becomes the conscious entity! The subselves of self can, however, entangle if this entanglement is below the measurement resolution of selves and therefore does not lead to a loss of consciousness at the level of selves.
Selves experience the fusion of subselves as a fusion of corresponding mental images to single shared mental image. Stereo consciousness is essentially in question. Stereo vision represents only one particular example of this. During sleep, we ourselves could be the mental images fusing to a single gigantic stereo mental image of a higher-level conscious entity. This mental image would represent the "human condition".
3. Any quantal idea of TGD must have also geometrical space-time counterpart by Quantum-Classical correspondence. The geometrical correlates for selves are space-time sheets. Subselves correspond to smaller space-time sheets topologically condensed at those of selves. The geometrical correlate for the entanglement are flux tubes connecting the space-time sheets associated with the selves. In the case of subselves, these subselves are too "thin" to be visible in the resolution of selves.
Only 15 years after the explicit formulation of the idea, the situation seems to be mature for the experimental verification as one learns from the Hammock Physicist (a blog belonging to Scientific Bloggin). The James Randi Educational Foundation might be forced to pay the one Megadollar prize that it has promised to anyone who can experimentally demonstrate some paranormal power.
The experimental arrangement is simple. The two subject persons {not "Alice" and "Bob" at this time;-) but Cora and Reid - two postdocs in theoretical physics} color the 3×3 squares of a larger square. Reid follows the rule that each column contains an odd number of red squares (that is 1 or 3). Cora obeys the rule that each row contains an even number of red squares. Since the total number of red squares is odd in the first case and even in the second case, colorings satisfying both rules are not possible. It this were the case, Cora and Reid could make an agreement about making only these optimal colorings in a fixed order, for instance.
Each coloring process equals 3 steps and for a given step, the row (column) to be colored is selected in random manner. Alice and Bob try to perform the coloring in such a manner that the intersection of the row of Cora and column of Reid has same color. The optimal coloring strategy would yield a success rate of 89 percent on the average. In the preliminary test, Alice and Bob involving 40 turns were however able to reach 100 percent success rate! The probability of this using optimal strategy is 1 percent.
I must say that I am shocked. Only 15 years after I began to work systematically with the TGD-inspired theory of Consciousness, one of its most spectacular predictions might be demonstratable by an extremely simple experiment having fantastic implications. Not only for our views about Consciousness and Biology but also for Quantum Theory itself.
The 8 books about the TGD-inspired quantum theory of Consciousness and Biology can be found at my homepage.
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