QUANTUM METAPHYSICS - E-thesis

the manner in which they are manifested is inconvenient or unpleasant.
In addition to the modelling of our internal states, new physics could, via its concept of quantum
state, also open up better-than-before opportunities for understanding different cultural and
collective structures and social activities. On a mechanistic-deterministic foundation, it is
impossible to explain why humans can create, and in their actions comply with, different
immaterial structures which have both a cultural and societal influence. Why does a specific
group collectively adopt a specific social constructions? How can a film, a sports competition or
a concert tug at our feelings? Why, in specific situations, do what are considered to be irrational
forms or constructions such as myths and utopias come to the fore time and again and affect the
course of history. Why do individuals, even to the point of fanaticism, adopt some political or
religious ideology just as if they have melted into it and become caught up in its control. 832
Different invisible ”states” or mental structures appear to define human behaviour in much the
same way as wave-functions define the impact of electrons on a photographic plate. The
situation of a specific culture or group dynamic appears to give birth to specific behaviour roles
into which some of the group’s members enter. Human groups can, within specific limits and in
specific situations, be portrayed as formless material which can assume different forms or
shapes. 833
The unequivocal modelling of these complex ”immaterial” structures which are manifested in the
mind and their possible influence on the formation of processes in the observable world naturally
requires much detailed investigation. Possibilities linked to the contents of the mind and the wide
variety of their influence can appear almost infinite when compared to phenomena that can
actually be observed in the world, but the formal modelling of the basic normalities does not
need to transcend those difficulties which are met on an everyday basis by quantum
cosmologists or constructors of unified theories. For example, in the same way as the statistical
resources available to sociology and the social sciences, cognitive psychology and different
therapeutic experiences offer ready material for defining the measurable influence that our
internal states have on reality.
interaction encounter each other.
832 See Tamminen 2004.
833 The situation is in some way comparable to the concept of matter held by Plato or Aristotle. They did not regard
atoms or elements to be the most fundamental elements as the formation of material phenomena was dependent on
forms which did not show up directly. Jung’s concept of archetypes as ordering structures or Bohm’s active
information also bear similarities to this idea.
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