Quantum Mechanics Of Consciousness
arXiv Preprint Archive July 28, 2009 Rajat Kumar Pradhan
A phenomenological model treats consciousness as a spin-one entity whose three eigenstates correspond to waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. These states arise from treating subject and object as interacting two-state spin-half systems with external and internal projections. Deep sleep is analyzed, yielding a new understanding of individual consciousness in that state. A fourth state, the singlet state, is interpreted as the superconscious state of intuitive experience, justified by invoking universal consciousness as the underlying source of all individual states. Individual experiences result from four individualizing observables that project the individual from the universal. The one-to-one correspondence between individual and universal states is shown, and their identity in the fourth state is established because all individualizing quantum numbers become zero, leaving no trace of individuality.