Quantum Consciousness

Abstract

Following a brief introduction to quantum theory, a conception that joins the panpsychist perspectives of Whitehead and Heisenberg is presented in which quantum events serve as subject/object events from which all of reality is formed. A specific quantum mechanical model, based on Frohlich’s analysis of acoustic vibrations in bilipid cell membranes, is examined in which Bose–Einstein-like condensates of vibration energy (“Frohlich events”) form the direct correlates of conscious experiences. The result is a worldview in which only individual quantum events are sentient, and in which individual Frohlich events comprise the entire subjective experiences usually ascribed to activity of the brain as a whole. Whole brains are regarded, instead, as “pseudosentient,” a product of the exquisite organization of Frohlich events in neuronal tissue.