Wave-packet reduction as a medium of communication

The Quantum Dissidents

“…Wigner was not as interested in this subject as in measurement problems, but he continued to play an active role until his intellectual vigor began to fade. As he wrote to Shimony, in 1977, "there is only one point of 'Abner's views' with which I do not agree. 6 Wigner's Style of Intellectual Leadership the middle of the 1990s.…”

“…Abner Shimony, who had a PhD from Yale in Philosophy and was doing his second PhD, this time in Physics at Princeton under the supervision of Wigner, was very impressed by it: "I found your paper on the mind-body problem extremely stimulating. He conducted experiments on the subject (Hall et al 1977) and maintains that quantum mechanics may bridge the gap between psychology and natural sciences (Shimony 1993, pp. 21 M. Satosi Watanabe (1910Watanabe ( -1993, a Japanese physicist, who had studied in Europe with de Broglie and Heisenberg and was interested in foundational issues and information, also reacted very favorably to Wigner's suggestion about the role of consciousness in physical processes.…”

Mind Efforts, Quantum Zeno Effect and Environmental Decoherence

“…Indeed several advocates of the "mind causes collapse" proposal have tried to detect experimentally such mind paranormal Psi effects and came up with publications according to which the mind affects by thought the output from random number quantum generators (Jahn and Dunne, 1986;Goswami, 1989;1990;1997), conscious observer affects the decay of a qubit (Bierman, 2003) or can change the outcome of distant processes such as water crystal formation (Radin et al, 2006). All such positive (successful) Psi experiments were found to contain either statistical flaws (Alcock, 2003;Jeffers, 2003;Bösch et al, 2006) or when performed by independent researchers end up with negative results (Hall et al, 1977). Therefore we assume that paranormal Psi influence upon brain environment such as telekinesis would be a regression for Stapp's model.…”