A Century of the Quantum Zeitgeist. From the Pioneers of Field and Form to the Information Fields Physical Theory.

Over the hundred years since quantum mechanics was formulated in 1925, a perspective has emerged across physics, biology, the human sciences, and the study of mind in which organizational form and information appear as fundamental features of reality, not merely matter and energy. This recurrence is best understood as a Zeitgeist, not coincidence or teleology. The paper revisits pioneers such as Bohm in physics; morphogenetic-field theorists, Sheldrake, and the biophotonic line of Gurwitsch, Kaznacheev, and Popp in biology; Husserl and Meneghetti in the human sciences; and Vasiliev, Cold-War state programs, Mitchell, and Radin in the study of non-local mind.

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Abstract

This paper reads the hundred years since the 1925 formulation of quantum mechanics as a single intellectual movement: the emergence, across physics, biology, the human sciences, and the contested study of mind, of a perspective in which organizational form and information — not matter and energy alone — appear as fundamental features of reality. It argues that this recurrence is best understood not as coincidence and not as teleology but as a Zeitgeist: one ripening perspective, intuited independently by investigators in many disciplines and pursued at professional cost. The paper revisits these pioneers of field and form — Bohm in physics; the morphogenetic-field theorists, Sheldrake, and the biophotonic line of Gurwitsch, Kaznacheev, and Popp in biology; Husserl and Meneghetti in the human sciences; Vasiliev, the Cold-War state programs, Mitchell, and Radin in the study of non-local mind — and reads their convergence through the information fields physical theory developed across this series. It situates their marginalization within a longer history: the fracture, opened by Galileo's mathematization of nature and codified by Descartes, that exiled the subject and the life-world from science, and whose prohibition now persists as an introjected structure in the formation of researchers. On this reading the hard problem of consciousness is hard less because experience is inexplicable than because the ontology in which it is posed was built by excluding what would explain it; restoring organizational form as a physical layer — on the rigorous precedent of Bohm's quantum potential — transforms the problem. The paper closes with the feature that distinguishes the present program from its predecessors: not greater experimental rigor, but generality — a shielded, distance-separated experiment requiring no special subjects, no emotional bond, no trained senders, and no altered states, using the dream as a universal identitary signal, and thereby proposing that field coupling is a general property of the living organism rather than an anomaly of special conditions. The theory is offered not as the culmination of the century but as the present turn of a widening spiral, testable and therefore surpassable.