Does quantum mechanics favor Buddhist philosophy?

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It certainly does!!!

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  • Despite the tremendous success of quantum physics, its interpretation remains uncertain.
  • The brain, which is made up of neurons, which themselves are made up of molecules, is likely influenced by quantum effects.
  • Can quantum mechanics and neuroscience be merged into a theory of “quantum consciousness”?
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This article presupposes that the brain produces consciousness. While that is the predominant view still in the scientific community, the “hard problem of consciousness”, that is, how does the brain produce the taste of chocolate or the smell of a rose, has remained particularly vexing.

There are many cutting edge deep thinkers who now postulate that matter, including the brain, arises from consciousness.

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If one takes a more panpsychist viewpoint, that some rudimentary form of sentience permeates all things, then it doesn’t take a human observer to collapse the wave function into a particular object. Everything is co-observing and co-arising with everything else.

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I’d like to read a “refutation” of dependent origination, as I anticipate pretzel twisting logic to go exactly nowhere.