Consciousness may be linked to quantum features of the world. The Extended Everett's Concept (EEC) explains consciousness and super-consciousness (intuitive knowledge) as phenomena where the brain serves as an interface between these higher cognitive components and the body. The analysis within EEC suggests that technical devices could potentially enhance the use of super-consciousness or intuition.
The author's Extended Everett's Concept (EEC) proposes that consciousness can, during sleep, trance, or meditation, access information from all parallel realities (Everett's worlds) and select favorable ones. A mathematical operation called postcorrection is introduced to model this ability, which adjusts the present state to ensure certain future characteristics. Evolution of living matter is thus guided by goals like survival as well as by causes, creating a theory symmetric in time direction that follows from an anthropic principle. The framework explains free will and direct insight, distinguishes artificial intellect from artificial life, and suggests the deepest level of consciousness is not a brain function.
Conceptual problems in quantum mechanics arise from the specific quantum concept of reality and require including the observer's consciousness into measurement theory. The Extended Everett Concept (EEC) identifies the separation of classical alternatives with the phenomenon of consciousness, explaining why alternatives appear classical and why unusual manifestations of consciousness occur at the edge of consciousness (sleep or trance) when access to other Everett worlds becomes feasible. Because quantum evolution is reversible in EEC, all time moments are equivalent while the impression of time flow appears only in consciousness. Assuming consciousness may influence probabilities of alternatives, EEC explains free will, probabilistic miracles (observing low-probability events), and decreasing entropy in the sphere of life.