Quantum Psyche

B.E. Baaquie, F. Carminati,

J. Demongeot, G. Galli Carminati,
F. Martin, M. Teodorani

February 18, 2015

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Copyright 2014 Federico Carminati
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ISBN-13: 978-1501024078
ISBN-10: 1501024078
Contents

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

1 Quantum field theory as a model for con-

sciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 The Role of Theory in Physics . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.4 The Quantum Field, the Quantum Principle
and Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.5 Hilbert Space Formulation of
Quantum Field Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.6 Quantum Field of Consciousness? . . . . . . . 9
1.7 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2 Quantum Psyche: Quantum Field Theory of

the Human Psyche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2 Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics . . . 15
2.3 State Space Description of the Human Psyche 18
2.4 Consciousness and Self-Consciousness . . . . 21
2.5 Free Will and Decoherence . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.6 Universal Quantum Field Underlying the Hu-
man Psyche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.7 Dynamics of the Consciousness Superfield . . 27
2.8 The Human Species
Ground State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.8.1 Quantum Model for Consciousness and
Self-Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.9 A Particular Human Psyche . . . . . . . . . . 34

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2.9.1 Human Essence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

2.10 Waking and Sleeping States . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.10.1 Waking State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.10.2 Sleeping State . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.10.3 Combination of Waking and Sleeping
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2.11 Time Evolution of an Individual Psyche . . . 41
2.12 Human Psyche and its substructure: Entan-
glement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.13 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

3 Quantum mechanics and the Psyche . . . . . 51

3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.2 Choice of the past: The photon delayed-choice
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.3 Quantum entanglement . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.4 Measurement and Entropy . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.5 Layered information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
3.6 Is there a collapse of the wave function? . . . 70
3.7 Quantum model of mourning . . . . . . . . . 75
3.7.1 The role of the different parts of the
unconscious in mourning . . . . . . . . 78
3.7.2 Realization of the mourning states . . 80
3.8 Correlation between Bob and Alice . . . . . . 82
3.8.1 Correlation via the exchange of an in-
teraction boson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
3.8.2 Correlation via quantum entanglement 83
3.8.3 Mourning and the correlation between
Alice and Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.9 Quantum group model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3.9.1 Group dynamics as extension to the
group of the mourning dynamics . . . 87
3.9.2 Outline of an experiment to measure
the orientation of the group unconscious 93
3.10 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
3.11 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

4 Quantum information, oscillations and the

Psyche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
4.2 Analogy between unconscious
processes by Jung and Quantum Mechanics . 106
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4.2.1 Amplification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

4.2.2 Anima, animus and persona . . . . . . 108
4.2.3 Archetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
4.3 Nuclear magnetic resonance formalism:
application to the unconscious. . . . . . . . . 111
4.3.1 Qubits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
4.3.2 Rotations of a qubit . . . . . . . . . . 115
4.3.3 Rotations of a mental qubit . . . . . . 118
4.4 Interactions between two qubits . . . . . . . . 118
4.4.1 Implementation of two-qubit logical
quantum gates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
4.4.2 CNOT gate properties . . . . . . . . . 122
4.4.3 Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
4.5 Influence of unconscious on consciousness. In-
teraction between pre-consciousness and con-
sciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
4.5.1 Special cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
4.5.2 General case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
4.6 Influence of consciousness on unconscious. In-
teraction between pre-consciousness and uncon-
scious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
4.7 Interaction between two unconscious . . . . . 147
4.8 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
4.8.1 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and men-
tal qubits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
4.8.2 Mental Rabi oscillations . . . . . . . . 153
4.9 Bose-Einstein condensation
of qubits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
4.10 Conclusions and perspectives . . . . . . . . . 160

5 Comments on a Quantum Information Model

of the Psyche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
5.2 Quantum information theory: qubits . . . . . 180
5.3 Rotations of a qubit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
5.4 Interactions between two qubits . . . . . . . . 184
5.4.1 Implementation of two-qubit
logical quantum gates . . . . . . . . . 185
5.5 Quantum cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
5.6 Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
5.6.1 Perceptive consciousness . . . . . . . . 191
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5.6.2 Special feature of consciousness . . . . 193

5.6.3 Awareness of unconscious states . . . 194
5.6.4 Pointer-states of unconscious quantum
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
5.7 Archetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
5.7.1 Mathematical Archetypes . . . . . . . 201
5.8 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

6 Synchronisation and Synchronicity . . . . . . 211

6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
6.2 Synchronisation and mnesic evocation . . . . 212
6.3 The problem of coding the information to be
stored and evoked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
6.4 Perspectives and Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . 222

7 Quantum Synchronicities - The Physics of

the Infinite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
7.1 Introduction to quantum theory . . . . . . . . 232
7.2 Quantum synchronicities: the entanglement
mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
7.3 Quantum coherence and quantum brain . . . 238
7.4 The brain and astrobiological non-locality . . 241
7.5 The mystery of Jungian Synchronicity seen
from the eyes of physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
7.6 Conclusive remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

8 The Bilbao experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

8.1 Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
8.2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
8.2.1 Background theories . . . . . . . . . . 252
8.2.2 Group based theories . . . . . . . . . . 266
8.3 Materials and methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
8.3.1 Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
8.3.2 Questionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
8.3.3 Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
8.3.4 Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
8.3.5 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
8.4 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
8.4.1 Cognitive versus group dynamics biases 285
8.4.2 Similarity of participant choices . . . . 287
8.4.3 Group unconscious . . . . . . . . . . . 287
8.4.4 Orientation of Choices and Entropy . 290
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8.5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

8.6 Useful bibliography (not referred in the text) 306

About the authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315