Volume 15 No 2 (2017)
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A Very Simple Quantum Model of Mind and Matter
Giuliana Galli Carminati , François Martin, Federico Carminati
Abstract
Since the Pauli-Jung conjecture of an ontological unity of Mind and Matter was formulated almost one century ago,
there has been a lot of interest in trying to define a model based on the principles of Quantum Mechanics. In
particular, Quantum Mechanics seems to offer a possibility to bridge the epistemological gap between Mind and
Matter to build a model of what the 17th century philosopher Gerhard Dorn has called the "Unus Mundus", i.e. the
ontological healing of the perceived duality of the Universe. Following other authors who have treated this matter
before us, in the current paper we define a very simple model of Mind and Matter represented by two qubits and
we discuss their interaction and their entanglement. In particular, we show how a generic Hamiltonian can be
divided in four components. Two of them represent local evolutions of the qubits, each one acting on one of the
two qubits and not on the other one. The other two define two different modes of interaction that we describe as
the general evolution of the Unus Mundus and the interaction generating synchronicity. We conclude with a
discussion on the different times governing the evolution of the Mind-Matter ensemble.
Keywords
Unus mundus, mind and matter, quantum information theory, entanglement, synchronicity
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