Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: Life in Parallel Worlds : Miracles of Consciousness from Quantum Reality

Contents
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Introduction: From quantum mechanics to mystery of consciousness
	1.1 Questions to be answered
	1.2 Two spheres of knowledge
	1.3 Super-intuition: Where do right solutions come from?
		1.3.1 Super-intuition in life and in science
		1.3.2 Parallel alternatives (parallel worlds): what does this mean
		1.3.3 Consciousness and quantum mechanics
	1.4 Principle of life is not derived from but is added to science
	1.5 Graphic presentation of the relation between the two spheres
	1.6 Toward theory of consciousness
		1.6.1 Mystical features of consciousness are compatible with quantum mechanics
		1.6.2 Quantum mechanics is incomplete without consciousness
			1.6.2.1 Paradox of Schrodinger's cat
			1.6.2.2 Quantum reality
			1.6.2.3 Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics includes consciousness
		1.6.3 Theory of consciousness from quantum mechanics
PART 1 Miracles produced by consciousness (psychicexperience)
	Chapter 2 Miracles and mysticism in spiritual experience of mankind
		2.1 Historical background
			2.1.1 Religion
			2.1.2 Oriental philosophies
			2.1.3 Esoterica
		2.2 Psychic and parapsychology
			2.2.1 Edgar Cayce
				2.2.1.1 General data
				2.2.1.2 Details of the practice
			2.2.2 Health by the autosuggestion
			2.2.3 Telepathy, clairvoyance etc.
		2.3 Miracles in science: Scientific insights
PART 2 Parallel worlds and consciousness
	Chapter 3 Quantum reality as parallel classical worlds (for physicists)
		3.1 Introduction
			3.1.1 Consciousness and quantum mechanics: From Pauli and Jung to contemporary authors
		3.2 An observer's consciousness and quantum paradoxes
			3.2.1 Special features of quantum measurements
			3.2.2 Paradoxicality of quantum mechanics
			3.2.3 Wigner friend paradox
				3.2.3.1 Entanglement
				3.2.3.2 Final conclusions
		3.3 Reduction and decoherence in a measurement
			3.3.1 Reduction
			3.3.2 Entanglement
			3.3.3 Decoherence
		3.4 Quantum correlations and quantum reality
			3.4.1 EPR effect and Bell's inequalities
			3.4.2 Quantum games
			3.4.3 Quantum reality from various viewpoints
		3.5 Measurement problem: stages of investigation
			3.5.1 Formulation of the problem
			3.5.2 Enthusiasm and optimism
			3.5.3 Marginalization
			3.5.4 Everett's "Many-Worlds" interpretation
		3.6 "Many-Worlds" interpretation and separation of alternatives
			3.6.1 Relative states
			3.6.2 Separation of the alternatives by consciousness
			3.6.3 Discussion of the Everett's concept
		3.7 Conclusion: Subjective aspect in quantum mechanics
	Chapter 4 Consciousness in parallel worlds
		4.1 Parallel worlds (classical alternatives) as quantum reality
		4.2 Consciousness: classical vision of quantum reality
			4.2.1 Consciousness as separation of classical alternatives
			4.2.2 Consciousness is common for physics and psychology
		4.3 At the edge of consciousness
			4.3.1 EEC: Consciousness is the separation of alternatives
				4.3.1.1 Why the alternatives are classical
				4.3.1.2 Accessibility to other realities
				4.3.1.3 The role of unconscious
				4.3.1.4 Super-consciousness: Travel in time
			4.3.2 Subjective probabilities and probabilistic miracles
				4.3.2.1 Objective and subjective probabilities
				4.3.2.2 Subjective probabilities in terms of parallel worlds
				4.3.2.3 Probabilistic miracles
			4.3.3 More precise formulations and examples
			4.3.4 Relation to religion and oriental philosophies
		4.4 The need for the new methodology
			4.4.1 Inclusion of subjective
			4.4.2 Only subjective is important
		4.5 Quantum correlations and telepathy in EEC
		4.6 Conclusion
			4.6.1 The problem of the century
			4.6.2 Solution through the Everett's concept
			4.6.3 Main points of EEC
	Chapter 5 Consciousness and life in parallel worlds: Details for physicists
		5.1 Representation of alternative scenarios by path corridors
			5.1.1 Continuous measurements and corridors of paths
			5.1.2 Evolution of a continuously measured system
		5.2 Why alternatives are classical: prerequisite to the existence of life
			5.2.1 Classicality of alternatives corresponds to the experience
			5.2.2 Classicality of the alternatives from EEC
			5.2.3 Modelling of "quantum concept of life" on quantum computers
	Chapter 6 "Three great problems in physics" according to Vitaly Ginzburg
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 'Ginzburg's problems'
		6.3 Relations among "the three great problems"
		6.4 Copenhagen interpretation: state reduction
		6.5 Measurement as an interaction: entanglement and decoherence
		6.6 Everett's ('many-worlds') interpretation: no reduction
		6.7 Extended Everett Concept (EEC): defnition of consciousness
			6.7.1 Identity of consciousness and alternative separation
			6.7.2 Consequences of the identification
		6.8 Extended Everett Concept (EEC): relations between "three problems"
		6.9 Conclusion
PART 3 Parallel Scenarios and Sphere of Life
	Chapter 7 Evolution of life: goal instead of cause (for physicists)
		7.1 Introduction
			7.1.1 Main ideas of Extended Everett's Concept
			7.1.2 Scenarios favorable for life
		7.2 Life as the postcorrection in the criterion of survival
			7.2.1 Notion of postcorrection
			7.2.2 Simplest example of postcorrection
			7.2.3 Interpretation in terms of "life sphere"
			7.2.4 Postcorrection in terms of EEC
			7.2.5 Other issues to be accounted
		7.3 Collective strategy of survival
		7.4 Various criteria for postcorrection
			7.4.1 Postcorrection providing super-intuition
		7.5 Conclusion
	Chapter 8 Life in terms of alternative scenarios instead of parallel worlds
		8.1 Alternative worlds and alternative scenarios
		8.2 Evolution governed by goals
		8.3 "Principle of life"
		8.4 Life principle as the generalization of the antropic principle
			8.4.1 Providence, karma, God
			8.4.2 The answers of super-consciousness depend on the conscious life criteria
PART 4 Speculations or further development of the concept
	Chapter 9 Escaping global crisis and life after death
		9.1 Global crisis and eluding it (hell and paradise)
			9.1.1 The global crisis: technical aspect
			9.1.2 Corrupted consciousness as an origin of the crisis
			9.1.3 Change of consciousness for preventing the catastrophe
			9.1.4 Resolution of the crisis: paradise and hell at Earth
			9.1.5 Life sphere: making the concept more precise
			9.1.6 The Fall and the tree of knowledge
		9.2 Soul and life after death of body
			9.2.1 Soul before and after death of the body
				9.2.1.1 Soul after death: judging the life
			9.2.2 Estimate of life criteria and judgment on the spent life
			9.2.3 Estimate of life criteria - more details
		9.3 Karma and reincarnations
PART 5 Summing up the results
	Chapter 10 Main points of the Quantum Concept of Life (QCL)
		10.1 Logical scheme of the quantum concept of life
			10.1.1 Quantum reality
			10.1.2 Quantum Concept of Consciousness (QCC)
			10.1.3 Quantum Concept of Life (QCL)
			10.1.4 Quantum Concept of Life (QCL) in terms of scenarios (sphere of life and the principle of life)
			10.1.5 The extended scientific methodology must include the subjective
		10.2 Consequences
			10.2.1 Super-intuition
				10.2.1.1 Clairvoyance and soothsaying
				10.2.1.2 Scientific insights
				10.2.1.3 Efficient method for solving problems
				10.2.1.4 Chess
				10.2.1.5 Is artificial intellect feasible?
				10.2.1.6 "Miracle of life" as an analogue of the super-intuition
			10.2.2 Miracles
				10.2.2.1 Miracles and science
				10.2.2.2 Biblical miracles
				10.2.2.3 Good weather etc.
		10.3 Discussion
			10.3.1 Consciousness and the laws of natural sciences
			10.3.2 Quantum computer: model for consciousness (for physicists)
	Chapter 11 Conclusion: Science, philosophy and religion meet together in theory of consciousness
		11.1 Why QCC is necessary, or how to learn to believe?
		11.2 Science and mystics
			11.2.1 Why physicists do not believe in the miracles
			11.2.2 'Soft' embedding of life into the objective world
			11.2.3 Quantum paradoxes are compensated by mystical features of consciousness
			11.2.4 Buddhism
		11.3 Science and religion are compatible
			11.3.1 Basic aspects of various confessions
			11.3.2 Science and religion need each other
		11.4 Philosophical viewpoint
			11.4.1 Wigner
			11.4.2 Objective and subjective
			11.4.3 Material and ideal
		11.5 From quantum mechanics to consciousness
			11.5.1 Pauli and Jung
			11.5.2 Penrose
			11.5.3 Why Quantum Concept of Consciousness was successful
		11.6 Second Quantum Revolution
Bibliography
Index