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In order to understand the whole picture, we depend on reductionism as an important tool. For example, we break time into hours, minutes, seconds, etc., and materials into atoms and fundamental particles. This process has led us to believe the world is material in nature, and we are the non-biased observers of the material dynamics. For a moment, let’s think the other way. Imagine the mind is the creator of the material world, and it exists irrespective of the state of the matter. Such an approach demands a paradigm shift in our scientific approach, but this is not as easy to do as one might think.
Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world…. Nature does not act by purposes.
– Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian-born physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics. (2012)
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Synapses are connections between neurons through which information flows from one neuron to another.
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In quantum mechanics a particle or object can occupy all of its possible quantum states simultaneously. That’s the meaning of superposition.
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Mathew, S. (2014). Mind over Matter. In: Essays on the Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics and Cosmology. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01887-4_9
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