Excerpt from:
Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science – Released in 2014 with translations into: Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, Pусский.
Chapter 7
At the end of the nineteenth century, physicists discovered empirical phenomena that could not be explained by classical physics.
This led to the development, during the 1920s and early 1930s, of a revolutionary new branch of physics called quantum mechanics (QM). QM has questioned the material foundations of the world by showing that atoms and subatomic particles are not really solid objects—they do not exist with certainty at definite spatial locations and definite times.
Most importantly, QM explicitly introduced the mind into its basic conceptual structure since it was found that particles being observed and the observer—the physicist and the method used for observation—are linked.
According to one interpretation of QM, this phenomenon implies that the consciousness of the observer is vital to the existence of the physical events being observed, and that mental events can affect the physical world. The results of recent experiments support this interpretation.
These results suggest that the physical world is no longer the primary or sole component of reality, and that it cannot be fully understood without making reference to the mind.
Additional:
January 19, 2024: How Albert Einstein Forever Changed the World of Quantum Physics
