The Physical Effectiveness of Conscious Will and the Quantum Zeno Effect

Abstract

A crucial question now arises: How does this dynamical psychoneurological connection via process 1, which can merely pose a question, but not answer it, allow a person’s effort to influence his or her physical actions?

Take an example. Suppose you are in a situation that calls for you to raise your arm. Associations via stored memories should elicit a brain activity having a component that when active on former occasions resulted in your experiencing your arm rise, and in which the template for arm-raising is active. According to the theory, this component of brain activity will, if sufficiently strong, cause an associated process 1 action to occur. This process 1 action will partition the quantum state of your brain in such a way that one component, labeled ‘Yes’, will be this component in which the arm-raising template is active. If the ‘Yes’ option is selected by nature then you will experience yourself causing your arm to rise, and the state of your brain will be such that the arm-raising template is active.