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is there room in your life for quantum entanglement
Most of us have a basic understanding of Einstein’s equation: E=mc2. It says that energy and mass are interchangeable because each is a different form of the same thing (Einstein’s Theory of Special Relatively, 1905).
In our everyday lives, we have come to accept that everything is a form of energy or matter. There is nothing that is not. Whether you subscribe to mindset habits or manifest with intentions, you have accepted that thoughts are an energetic form of something. Cool. Now can you weave quantum entanglement into your life?
The phenomenon called entanglement is when two particles behave as if they were one. When one is acted upon, the other behaves as if it too has been acted upon. Distance is not a factor. Entanglement can be replicated when the two particles are separated by great distances and even when isolated in specialized isolation chambers.
The phenomenon of entanglement has put more meat on the bones around the discussions among scientists: what is intelligence and is there a cosmic mind?
Threads of this discussion go back generations as quantum physics explored the implications of Einstein's Theories of Special {energy and matter are of the same stuff} and General [time and space are on a continuum whose measurement depends upon the curvature gravity creates] Relativity. David Bohm and Basil Hiley wrote a book about this, The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory (1993), in which they posed that mind and matter arose from the same stuff.
Roger Penrose, another Nobel Prize physicist, applied his quantum mathematics from black holes in outer space to the neurons in the brain, concluding that algorithms are not the framework of human consciousness. Thus, algorithms are not the path to artificial intelligence, AI.
Instead, Penrose proposes that quantum entanglement explains the properties of consciousness. On one hand, entanglement allows for the instantaneous reactions and thoughts we have, whereas the math measuring electrical impulses traveling to-fro along neural pathways does not.
On the other hand, the quantum entanglement is not local within each brain. The nature of quantum entanglement is that it is without borders and cannot be contained. Hence, the human mind we have today did not develop over thousands of years, it was and has been what we experience today. (Institute of Art and Ideas, Roger Penrose on quantum mechanics and consciousness | full interview, 2024 March and We need to ‘gravitise’ quantum mechanics, not quantise gravity | full interview, 2024 January) (Mind Matters, Can Roger Penrose Explain Consciousness Through Physics? Denise OLeary, 2023 October).
Science has not agreed on a single term for what it to think and to have the awareness “I am.” AI is measured against a definition of human intelligence, which holds, in part, the ability to adapt to change. In medicine, the model of the brain as an antenna and hub for processing information, is getting a firm foothold. Quantum physics is becoming philosophical with an emerging Universal Consciousness Theory, stating that everything is tapped into a single unified field of cosmic intelligence. Furthermore, intelligence precedes the existence of energy and hence matter.
Dan Falk, a science journalist wrote of one meandering down this physics-philosophy path, called panpsychism (Scientific American, Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe, 2023 September).
Philosophers from academia participating in the conversation are creating a multitude of terms. Falk’s article is deep into panpsychism, a hypothesis that all animal species share a ubiquitous intelligence—just not the same one. Hylozoism extends this concept to all forms of life.
In 2022 the Nobel Prize was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zellinger. They showed that quantum entanglement has technological applications (The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, Entangled states – from theory to technology).
The technological world will embrace the quantum fact that it can have two or more something and act upon just one of them and the rest will respond in the same way. Distance and environs are not a factor.
By the way, there is a relatively new specialization within quantum physics. It is Quantum Information Systems.
The other spinoff from the Nobel Prize being awarded to Entangled states is that quantum entanglement and other quantum weirdness are recognized as real and with real-life applications beyond the halls of academia. Science journalist Dan Garisto has a bit fun with this new horizon in The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Prove It, Scientific American, 2022 October).
[photo bks Wu Li Masters and The Field]
And so you have everything in the universe is of the same stuff. Moreover, when you take a measurement of anything it depends on where you are and when you are taking the measurement. Going further, you can have a set of things with each thing in its own far-flung location reaping the same consequences of an experience served to only one in the set—BECAUSE everything is connected!
Here are two books written for the populace to understand this quantum weirdness. Zukav’s book, The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979) shows us relativity. McTaggart’s book, The Field: Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (2003) walks us through entanglement.
Beyond imagining how technological versions of quantum entanglement could land on your life from the outside—are you ready to use the concept of entanglement inside your life?
Ask me what this has to do with life coaching? It applies.
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