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The Influence of Consciousness on Matter

The Influence of Consciousness on Matter KOROTKOV The question of whether the human mind can directly, without some intermediate elements, influence the world around us has troubled mankind since ancient times. This effect is described in countless myths, legends and fairy tales of all peoples. In XX century this question arose on the new plane when the concept of the “observer” on whose conscious actions the outcome of subatomic events depended was introduced in quantum mechanics. Such interpretation is not universally accepted by physicists but it provides a theoretical foundation for study of these phenomena. It is interesting to note that in techniques, especially in computer sciences, there is a c o m m o n o p i n i o n t h a t t h e r e a r e experimenters in whose hands any instrument works, and there are people negatively affecting the equipment. The first were Lord Kelvin, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. The latter are usually theorists. A famous physicist George Gamow humorously describes the so-called “Pauli effect”7: “It is well known that theoretical physicists are very awkward in handling experimental apparatus; and furthermore, the level of physicist - theorist can be assessed by his ability to break a delicate instrument byt simply touching it. According to this criterion, Wolfgang Pauli was an outstanding theoretician; the equipment broke, fell, blocked or burned as soon as he entered the lab”. Naturally, this is a joke, and such influence is not exerted by all theorists, but as with every joke, there is a large element of truth there.

The Influence of Consciousness on Matter THE FIELD APPROACH According to the field concept, the particles i n v o l v e d i n a n y i n t e r a c t i o n ( e . g . , electromagnetic or gravitational), create at each point of the space around them a special state, a force field, which manifests itself in a force effect on other particles that are placed in some point of this space. Indeed, according to the relativity, the propagation velocity of any interaction can not exceed the velocity of light in vacuum. Therefore, in the system of interacting particles the force acting at this moment of time on a particle of the system is not determined by the arrangement of other particles at the same moment, i.e., the change of the position of one particle has an effect on another particle not at once but after a certain period of time. Thus interaction of particles whose relative velocity is comparable with the velocity of light can be described only through the fields created by them. A group of French researchers led by R. Peoc'h 10 carried out a series of amazing experiences. They designed a robot that could move around without bumping into obstacles. If the robot is programmed to move at random it is moving chaotically, accidentally turning in different directions. In the room tracking sensors are placed, and after some time the trajectory of the robot uniformly fills in all available space. After that several cages with chickens are placed into the room, and the light is turned off. Then the robot is switched on, a small bulb being mounted on it. The robot starts to randomly move around the room, but after a while it turns out that the trajectory of its motion shifts toward the cages with the chickens! That is, the chicks, stretching toward the light, seem to attract the robot by the force of their emotions! A similar phenomenon occurs when the robot is carried before the cage with the newly hatched chickens. They take it for mom, and are ready to obediently follow him. But when the freedom of movement is limited by the cage, they call the robot-mom with all the passion of their chicken heart. And the robot obeys! It responds and begins to walk close to chicken cages. Similar results have been repeatedly reproduced and described in detail in the scientific literature. Thus, emotions affect even an electronic machine. The question is: what is the mechanism of this influence? I am afraid that at this stage we are very far from the answer. Now our task is to accumulate experimental data and let us not hurry with conclusions.

The Influence of Consciousness on Matter QUANTUM BREAKTHROUGH As we know, the great Einstein until the end of his life could not accept quantum mechanics. It seemed to him a too formal simplification of reality. He lamented, “For fifty years Iʼve been thinking about what is a light quantum, and can not understand it, and now at the universities every Tom thinks he knows it, but he is mistaken”. Einstein could not accept the probabilistic principle being the basis of quantum mechanics. He did not want to lose the certainty and truth. “God does not play dice”, he said. Einstein called quantum mechanics absurd. He believed that physicists simply do not yet know the values of some hidden variables, which would allow escaping the uncertainty. Niels Bohr who opposed him believed that the probabilistic nature of the predictions of q u a n t u m m e c h a n i c s c a n n o t b e fundamentally eliminated.