Current mood:	curious
Current music:	Chaap Tilak by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Amir Khusro lyrics)

Wu-Li Masters (contd...)
Yesterday as I read through yet another chapter of 'The Dancing Wu-Li Masters', I was amazed at how closely related the propositions of Quantum Mechanics and Eastern Mysticism are. It was a very heady experience reading and imagining the whole thing. The macroscopic world which follows the deterministic logic of Newtonian Physics where if an observer (who is unprejudiced i.e. not having any bias to the event) has all the information available then he can predict future observations and intrapolate events which have led to the existing observation. Now a normal thinking would be to assume that the same is true in the microscopic (atomic and sub atomic) realm but that isnt the case. In the quantum world, we can never predict an event but only give the probability of it happening. Also, the event for which the probabilities are predicted are dealing with aggregate quantities eg. what is the likely hood that x nbrs of electrons jump from orbit 5 to orbit 1 in a given mass of excited hydrogen atoms. It can never say anything about a specific electron jumping. Essentially everything becomes a statistical phenomenon. So whats the mystical part ? What QM folks say is that there can never be an unbiased observation, the observer is always a part of the event an in a way influencing the event. This makes all phenomenon a subject to experience. Meaning the observer experiences the phenomenon. This is suggested as the basis of consciousness. Wow! can QM be a Theory of Consciousness. Will find out as I read further.