Human consciousness has always been a mystery to the scientific community. Several debates surrounding consciousness revolve around undiscovered brain power and ways to unlock hidden layers of reality.
Recently, an Oxford physicist made stunning claims, focusing on the possibility of increasing human consciousness, as reported by Popular Mechanics.
Vlatko Vedral, professor of physics at the University of Oxford, spoke about ‘quantum analogy of thought’. According to the professor, human consciousness is not merely a biological or logical process, but a series of quantum events that take place in the brain.
Like the dual nature of light, the human mind also possesses duality, oscillating between intuitive thinking (working like waves) and logical decision-making (working like particles).
“[Our] consciousness is the product of a large number of double-slit quantum experiments,” said a physicist.
Therefore, when people are in a state of contemplation, they can explore many paths at the same time. In the state of contemplation, people enter a state of uncertainty. The series of thoughts allows us to collapse this superposition of thoughts and replace it with another, by broadening the horizon. The process continues until a certain or logical thought is formed, which leads to the disappearance of the interference of lateral thinking.
That’s why the physicist claims that our creativity comes from quantum interference. Speaking of artificial intelligence, Vedral said, current AI systems are limited because they follow rigid and logical steps.
On the contrary, the human subconscious possesses the ability to process enormous amounts of information in parallel based on quantum uncertainty. And AI lacks this feature
Vedral suggests that future quantum brain interfaces could expand these states of uncertainty, enabling unprecedented levels of human creativity and a qualitative leap in the way we perceive reality.
