Re: locality and nonlocality

Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:54:43 -0700
From: Ezio Insinna 
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Subject: QUANTUM-D: RE: locality and nonlocality

This concerns the remark from Gerard 't Hooft (which can be found in _Physics
and our view of the world_, ed. Jan Hilgevoord (Cambridge U.P., 1994), p28).

One might agree with Hooft as far ar simple particles are concerned, however,
the world around us shows that some of those "coincidences" occur very seldom
and that they are singular non-repetitive events. Therefore, I intentionally
disregard the correlations of two particles (such as in the EPR paradox),
which indeed might be the result of long-range correlation within a huge
dynamical system and refer only to special coincidences of the mind-body
kind.
In his theory of Synchronicity, C. G. Jung has stressed the contingent
(unsteady, imprevisible) aspect of synchronistic events, in which matter and
psyche appear to behave in a similar fashion (are correlated).
In addition to the fact that those coincidences are irreproductible one could
ask why such phenomena should be endowed with "meaning". In fact,
synchronistic events are "meaningful" and always concern the observer and his
psychic activity. A solution would be to propose that, at the quantum level,
matter and psyche are no longer separate but become two aspects of a single
reality. The role of the observer, with respect to the observed quantum
system, is, however, still an unsolved question. My proposal to look into the
realm of the unconscious of the observer in search of correlations with the
observed system is too recent to awake the scientific curiosity of some
experimental physicists (Insinna, 1995; 1996).


Insinna, E.M., 1995. Synchronicity and the Emergence of Non-local Information
in Quantum Systems. In "Toward a Science of Consciousness", S. R. Hameroff
editor. MIT Press. Forthcoming - End 1995