Chapter 3 - Do We Create Our Own Reality?

Question 1

Quantum measurement paradox

Answer 1

Who or what collapses quantum possibility wave to actuality? An epiphenomenon of matter do this!

Question 2

Brahman

Answer 2

All pervasive ground of being, consciousness.

Consciousness is prior and unconditioned. It is all there is. There is nothing but god.

Matter exists as possibilities within consciousness

Question 3

Maya

Answer 3

The force of illusion that makes us appear separate

Question 4

George Berkeley

Answer 4

Ideas are what is real

Question 5

Unconscious

Answer 5

When possibility waves move about in the brain without collapse, consciousness is present but not awareness

Question 6

How can subject object split - a manifestation of awareness - arise without prior collapse?

Answer 6

Dependent co-arising; subject (quantum self) chooses and causes collapse co-arises dependency with objects of awareness

Question 7

Tangled hierarchy

Answer 7

Hierarchy of paradox oscillates from one to the other endlessly; self referential

Means by which self reference and dependent co-arising take place

Question 8

Von Neumann chain

Answer 8

We can measure quantum possibility with measuring aid apparatus, but that is also a quantum object; it too becomes a wave of possibility. Infinite apparatuses can measure previous one but it becomes a tangled hierarchy

Question 9

Self reference

Answer 9

Not real

Question 10

Paradox of Wigner’s friend

Answer 10

Set up experiment with ambiguous result, but sends friend to look. Will possibility wave collapse when friend looks?

Misconception that consciousness is individual, but consciousness has us

Question 11

Solipsism

Answer 11

I am the only conscious observer and everybody else is a figment of my imagination because I see them only through internal images that only I can see

Question 12

Primary awareness

Answer 12

We are entities with brains in which self referential quantum measurements take place, making memory

When stimulus encountered for first time there is no previous memory, consciousness chooses freely from available quantum possibilities permitted y quantum dynamics in the brain

Question 13

Conditioning

Answer 13

Revisiting memory reinforces it

Question 14

Secondary awareness

Answer 14

Memory produces internal stimulus
Brain responds with quantum superposition of possibilities
Consciousness collapses one of possibilities to actuality

Question 15

Quantum memory

Answer 15

Modification of possibility wave of conditioned quantum system

Produces confluence of tendencies that shape personal identity and false impression of individuality

Question 16

All is God’s will

Answer 16

We choose, but not in our ordinary state of ego consciousnessness; we choose in no ordinary state of one consciousness

Question 17

Creative process

Answer 17

Preparation (learning what is known)
Incubation(unconscious processing of possibilities - occurs by quantum superpositions of possibility)
Insight (recognition/collapse of new)
Manifestation

First and last ego based, middle two quantum

Creativity is encounter of ego and quantum self

Question 18

Jean Piaget

Answer 18

Psychologist found we develop adult ego through alternate stages of creative spurts (quantum leaps of discovery of new contexts) and homeostatic adaptation (learning to use new context and to assimilate it into repertoire of contexts)

Question 19

Ego

Answer 19

Conditioned identity

Question 20

Benjamin Libet

Answer 20

Demonstrated that consciousness retains free will even while identifying with ego

Question 21

Inner creativity

Answer 21

Freedom to choose between conditioned alternatives thus opening door to creative change of character

Question 22

Correspondence principle

Answer 22

New science (quantum) corresponds to old science (Newtonian) in domain where old science is valid.