Observer: A Novel
If consciousness is indeed more fundamental than matter, as Planck, Jeans, Schiller, and others suggest, then the “paranormal”—“anomalies” in science, such as psychic abilities and the mind’s survival of bodily death—become expected. They are only paranormal or anomalous if we assume that consciousness comes from the brain. They make no sense in th
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John Wheeler, one of the pioneers of quantum physics, draws out the distinction between observer and participant in the experiment: Nothing is more important about the quantum principle than this, that it destroys the concept of the world as “sitting out there,” with the observer safely separated from it by a 20-centimeter slab of plate glass. Even
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