Quantum Mysticism - Philosophical Claims

Philosophical Claims

Writers on quantum mysticism have made such statements as the following;

• The observer and reality are not separate and mind and body are indivisibly one, and consciousness causes collapse (e.g. the act of observation affects reality directly). While these ideas are commonly accepted, science does not commonly attribute substantiality to mind and consciousness. David Chalmers, in The Conscious Mind (1996), used the idea of the philosophical zombie to argue in the arena of philosophy that a mechanical view of evolution cannot account for the phenomenon of awareness, while Daniel Dennett has attempted to refute this argument and to assert that the mind is an emergent phenomenon of our bodies. "Quantum mystics" commonly propose the idea that an underlying consciousness or intelligence connects everyone, based on the fact that quantum fields can be interpreted as extending infinitely in space. Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology Carl Jung referred to this inherent connection between all life as "the collective unconscious".