quantum mechanics: questions for the book (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, July 27, 2013, 23:51 (3927 days ago) @ David Turell

This is a repeat of previous entry so Dr. Kastner can see it-> > dhw: In the exchanges between you and David, emphasis lies on potential realities and events, "Heisenbergian possibilities". You say QM "is at least a theory of the structure of those potentialities, even if we can't observe their material nature ... or even if they don't possess a material nature." David is looking for an avenue into a quantum version of his God (hence the emphasis on intelligence), a quantum explanation of NDEs and of other psychic phenomena. 
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> Since my name has been brought up, let me review what I have learned by studying Dr. Kastner's blog, lectures slide presentation, Chapter 7, and her discussions here. Her slide of an iceberg- like object representing the quantum area of activity beneath 'our reality' surface opens up a fascinating set of ideas. Recognizing the potentialities in quantum space, it makes it quite clear that with the spookiness at a distance, why entanglement in our level can occur in an instant. The speed of light in our realm does not anything to do with the the quantum realm where the sister particles are really entangled. Thus I can now view the two realities as if separated by a semi-permiable as I know in dialysis. We see quanta coming across that boundary, we can choose how to see them, but all of the underlying uncertainties and potentialities are not apparent. Our choice of measurement is not a requirement that consciousness must be present. The universe exists with or without consciousness. It certainly existed before the universe became conscious in us.It gets rid of the multiworld interpretations of QM. It is a marked advance from Heisenberg's uncertaintly principle. 
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> What I am not clear about is why transactional interpretation is required, as long as the back-and-forth relationships between the two realms is constant, and we are living in and with both realms without being overtly conscious of the quantum realm. For example photosythesis has recently been shown to have a quantum ionization process. I think I understand that an offer wave can create an observable particle. I don't see the necessary reason for a conformation wave proposal. Can such a wave be observed? I realize that part of the reasoning, I think, is the rule of conservation of energy, which can neither be made nor destroyed. So if there is one wave there must by its counterpart. But the actual connection to TI escapes me so far. 
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> As for God, I still think He is consciousness in the quantum realm and our consciousness also exists there. How could the material universe invent consciousness unless it already existed from the beginning?