Sunday, June 26, 2011

Quantum Mechanics as a Branch of Primate Psychology (c. 1980)

Quantum Mechanics
as a Branch of Primate Psychology

by Simon Moon (*)


According to the Copehnhagen Interpretation
invented in the middle of the Carlsberg brewery in 1926
by Neils Bohr
the world-as-known-to-science
is not a model of
the real world
but is — at one step remove —
a model of the human mind
building a model of
the real world.
The science of science, then,
THE SCIENCE, the fountainhead,
becomes epistemology,
which is a branch of human psychology,
which is a branch of primate psychology
and of
primate neurology.
The primate genetic imperatives of territoriality,
pack heirachy,
rage-threat relexes,
rule by alpha male,
all play a role in
the theorizing/modeling of
domesticated primates
like us.
Or, as Eddington said,
"We have certain preconceived notions
of location in space
that have come down to us from
ape-like ancestors."
Get into your brain,
into the Jungian "collective unconscious,"
the DNA archives.
to find the origin of
philosophy, art, and
modern physics including
the Copenhagen Interpretation.

But
according to David Bohm 1952
the quantum jump is
controlled by a subquantum
hidden variable
which is nonlocal:
here, there, and everywhere in space:
now, then, and everywhen in time.
If Bohm is right,
the primate brain
(whic devised Lear and
Beethoven's Ninth and
tic-tac-toe along with
quantum mechincs)
is the product of
DNA architectural design
to terraform Terra
which is dependent upon
quantum bonding of the DNA helix
which, in turn, is determined by
quantum jumpiness
determined itself by
the hidden variable
nonlocal in spacetime
omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent
as any theologian's God.

If Bohr is right,
the primary study is that of
the brain and consciousness
(primate neruology);
but if Bohm is right
the primary study is that of
the hidden variable
nonlocal in spacetime
(cosmic organization: negative entropy, inc.)

Since Bohr himself said
"The opposite of a trival truth
is false; the opposite of a great truth
is also true,"
we can synthesize Bohr/Bohm
and conclude that
primate neurology = the hidden variable
which in prescientific language
would read
the soul = God
except that to be true to Bohm
and to Bell's Theorum 1964
primate neurology (the soul)
also = any other point-event
so that if the
hidden variable = God
so does the lampshade
or the blue spruce
(which is what any Buddhist
or acid-head will tell you
even without studying
quantum mechanics).



        (*) ―Robert Anton Wilson



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