On the Quantum Mechanics of Consciousness, with Application to Anomalous Phenomena
⚡ Contested Jahn, Robert G, Dunne, Brenda J • 1986 STAR GATE Era • methodology
Plain English Summary
What if your mind works like an atom? That's the bold idea from Princeton's famous PEAR lab. Jahn and Dunne propose describing consciousness with quantum mechanics -- the physics of the ultra-small -- treating the mind as a wave function anchored to the body. They borrow atomic concepts (bonding, resonance, uncertainty) as metaphors for how minds might nudge machines or pick up distant impressions. The receipts are huge: nearly 700,000 random-number-generator trials, 22 million mechanical-device trials, and 400+ remote-viewing sessions, all showing small but statistically real effects. Critics note it's more poetic analogy than hard prediction, but it gave mind-matter interaction a theoretical skeleton that shaped PEAR's work for decades.
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- Precognitive Remote Viewing in the Chicago Area: A Replication of the Stanford Experiment — Dunne, Brenda J (1979)
- A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspective and Recent Research — Puthoff, Harold E (1976)
- Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding — Targ, Russell (1974)
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- Evidence for Consciousness-Related Anomalies in Random Physical Systems — Radin, Dean I (1989)
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- Does Consciousness Collapse the Wave-Packet? — Bierman, Dick J (2003)
- Weak Quantum Theory: Complementarity and Entanglement in Physics and Beyond — Atmanspacher, Harald (2002)
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Jahn, Robert G, Dunne, Brenda J (1986). On the Quantum Mechanics of Consciousness, with Application to Anomalous Phenomena. Foundations of Physics. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00735378
BibTeX
@article{jahn_1987_quantum_mechanics_consciousness,
title = {On the Quantum Mechanics of Consciousness, with Application to Anomalous Phenomena},
author = {Jahn, Robert G and Dunne, Brenda J},
year = {1986},
journal = {Foundations of Physics},
doi = {10.1007/BF00735378},
}