Where might quantum mechanics lead us in this search for nature of consciousness?
The power of quantum mechanics lies in the math and the models it can inform. Once the models are tested, the trick is to extend the math and let the models lead you experiments that test the model’s predictions. Ultimately this process leads you to answers. The following is not an application of quantum mechanics, but simply an an illustration of one possible path of exploration. Consciousness and time may turn out to be different manifestations of the same or similar phenomena, just like matter and energy. As Davies and Musser point out in their separate articles in September 2002 Scientific American, there are some serious mathematical and philosophical obstacles to the existence of time. Perhaps the presence of matter does not generate space-time. Perhaps time does not in fact exist except in our mind. Perhaps matter generates space-consciousness instead, and consciousness perceives the static events of the past and anticipates the future, streaming these asymmetrical events throug
