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QUANTUM CREATIVITY Think Quantum, be Creative! Our societies are going through crisis. The signs are everywhere—economic meltdowns, environmental pollution and global climate change, worldview polarization of politics and frozen democracies, terrorism, loss of meaning and value in education in favor of information processing, healthcare systems whose cost cannot be contained, etc. Not coincidentally, there is an acute need for a paradigm shift in our science that is ridden with paradoxes and anomalous data. Such a paradigm shift has begun under the aegis of quantum physics and with it a change is taking place in our worldview from religious dualism and scientific materialism (the primacy of matter) to an integrative worldview based on the primacy of consciousness. For crisis resolution and paradigm shifts, we need creativity. What is interesting is that in the time of crisis and paradigm shifts, opportunities arise galore for the fulfillment of our creative potential. The quantum approach is telling us that everyone today can be creative. The purpose of this lecture is to tell you how and to properly motivate you from information processing to creativity. What is the vehicle that a creative rides? The answer is, the quantum, the quantum, the quantum. Creativity requires quantum thinking—the capacity to engage with a problem both in the conscious and in the unconscious. We will explain quantum unconscious processing; we will delve into quantum leaps that creativity researchers identify as the aha! insight. We will learn the secrets of creative living--do-be-do-be-do and the flow experience. We will explore creativity in the outer arena—the arts the sciences, and businesses. We will also investigate inner creativity--how to creatively transform our emotions from negative to positive and acquire emotional intelligence. Finally, I will explicate the creative journey of spiritual enlightenment.
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Quantum Psychology“Healing of the Mind”
Amit Goswami, Ph.D.www. amitgoswami.org
Stages of the
Creative Process
1. Preparation
2. Incubation
3. Sudden Insight
4. Manifestation
Escher Hands
Brain Circuits
Paradox of Perception
Do we have two heads?
Behavioral Determinism
Kundalini
Contrast of scientific materialism
and the quantum worldview
Aspect?Validity in
Scientific Materialism
Validity according to
Quantum Physics
Causual determinism? Valid Valid
Continuity? Valid Valid
Nature of movement? Continuous Continuous & Discontinuous
Nature of communication? Local Local & Non-Local
What is the world made of? Matter
Consciousness
including matter & subtle
(mental, vital & supramental)
Self ReferenceUndivided Consciousness
and its possibilities
Quantum Measurement in the Brain
Discontinuity
Subject Object
Collapse of the quantum possibility wave in the observer’s brain leads to
self-reference - a split of consciousness into subject & object
A Quantum Leap
A quantum leap as envisioned by Niels Bohr. According to Bohr,
when electrons jump from one atomic orbit to another,
they never go thru the intervening space.
Electron
Orbits
Nucleus
Von Neumann Chain
Dead Alive
Dead Alive
Following von Neumann's argument, even our brain-mind catches the dichotomy of the cat, so how does the chain terminate?
Pro
babili
ty
Position in space
Position with
highest probability
A Quantum Probability Distribution
Jungs Typology
Human Experience(from Jungs typology)
Worlds of Organization
Sensing Physical
Feeling Vital
Thinking Mental
intuiting Supramental
Types of Disease & Healing
Human Experience Worlds of Organization
Sensing Physical
Feeling Vital
Thinking Mental
intuiting Supramental
From Heaven To Earth
Supramental (body of laws)including purposive laws of the vital body
involving biological functions,e.g. maintenance, reproduction, etc.
Vital body blueprintsfor making form forbiological functions
Physical body for making representations of the vital blueprints and programs to carry out
biological functions.
How biological functions come down from Heaven (the supramental domain) to Earth (the material domain).
The Double Slit Experiment
The wave-particle duality is the central mystery of quantum
mechanics – the one to which all others can ultimately be reduced.
Particles Waveform
Interference Pattern DisappearsWhen we try to identify which slit the electron passes through by focusing a flashlight on the slits, the electron shows its particle nature. There are only two fringes - exactly what we would expect if the electrons were miniature baseballs.
Mind gives it Meaning
Flux
Will the line of flux be shared between the two holes, revealing quantum interference at the macro level?
The Quantum Monad & The Wheel of Karma
Domain of consciousness and potentia
QuantumMonad
Karma In
Karma Out
Karma In
Karma Out
Karma In
Karma Out
Domain of manifest experience
Opto, ergo sum.
I choose, therefore I am.( tangled hierarchically as signified snake biting it’s own tail )
Particle Correlation
Particles
interact &
correlate
Particles still
correlated
Particle A
Particle B
Mind and meaning
Mind and meaning
Waveform Interference
Constructive
Interference
Reinforcement
Destructive
Interference
Cancellation
Representation Created from CollapseConsciousness and its vital and
physical possibilities
Consciousness and its possibilities of mental
meaning and those of material brain
Quantum Collapse Quantum Collapse
(a) With the simultaneous correlated collapse of the mind and brain, the brain makes a representation of the mental meaning that it experienced.
(b) With the correlated collapse of the vital blueprint of an organ and the physical body, the latter makes a representation (the organ) of the former at a chakra.
a b
Manifest mental
meaning
Manifest brain
representation of
mental meaning
Physical organ
at a Chakra
Vital blueprint for
The organ and our
feeling of it.
Dependent Co-Arising
Tangled hierarchical quantum measurement of an object/stimulus in
the brain produces not only the experience of the object, but also the
experience of the subject in our consciousness
Intermediate Pattern of InterferenceWith a dimmer flashlight, some of the interference pattern returns.
Collapse of the Waveform
When we look, we collapse the electron’s wave to localize at one place. But between our observations, an electron spreads
out as a wave of possibility in transcendent potentia.
Contrasts of scientific materialism and the quantum worldview
Nature of
experience
How does
matter process?
How does
consciousness process?
Feeling Feeling is not computableRecognizes feeling as movement of the
non-physical Vital Body
Thinking
Can process content, but
cannot process meaning of
thoughts due to
Goedel's Theorem
Consciousness recognizes
both content & meaning as movements
of the
non-physical mind
IntuitingBecause intuitive thought
is discontinuousQuantum leap to the supramental
LimitationsMaterial World(freedom lost)
First limitation:Intellect World(world of contexts and laws of movement)
Second limitation:Mental World(world of meaning)
Third limitation:Vital World(world of subtle energy)
Supramental Intellect:Map of Intellect
Mind:Map of Mental
Life:Map of Vital
LimitlessBliss
Involution & Evolution of Consciousness
A Living Cell
A Living Cell
Chance variations in
the genetic material.
Darwinian Evolution
i s a t w o s t e p p r o c e s s
Natural selection based
on survival necessity1 2
Planck’s Constant
On the ramp,
the classical
motion of the
ball is
continuous
On the staircase,
quantum motion acts
in discontinuous
steps (quantum
jumps).
Electron Diffraction
Many Worlds Interpretation
A representation of the split that
occurs based on the possible
outcomes for each action, according
to Everett's Many-Worlds
interpretation
System at Equilibrium
System with Lower Entropy
(in violation of the second law)
The Demon and the friction-free
trap door
Maxwell’s Demon
The “I” behind the “i”.
The diverse “i’s” of sentient beings ultimately are the one “I” of consciousness
Reincarnation
Minator
M.C. ESCHER
The Miracle of Nonlocal Correlations
Metaphorically, when either of two correlated beings touch a cactus, the other feels the prick.
Ouch!Ouch!
Origin of Correlation
Hardware vs. Software
Schrödingers Cat
Who chooses whether the light is green or red?
You? Or your friend?
Paradox of Wigners Friend
Hypnosis
RolfingBefore & After
Elementary particles make atoms,
atoms make molecules, molecules make
cells (neurons), neurons make the brain,
and the brain makes consciousness.
Causation rises from the base level of
the elementary particles upward. Only
elementary particles, nothing else have
causal efficacy.
UpwardCausation
Consciousness
Brain
Cells (including neurons)
Molecules
Atoms
Elementary Particles
and Their Interactions
The old school upward causation model.
Do Be Do Be Do.
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Pranayama
Schrödingers Cat
