Quantum-Like Interferences of Experimenter's Mental States: Application to “Paradoxical” Results in Physiology

Volume 11 No 2 (2013)

Francis Beauvais

Abstract

Objectives: “Memory of water” experiments (also known as Benveniste’s experiments) were the source of a famous controversy in the contemporary history of sciences. We recently proposed a formal framework devoid of any reference to “memory of water” to describe these disputed experiments. In this framework, the results of Benveniste’s experiments are seen as the consequence of quantum-like interferences of cognitive states. Design: In the present article, we describe retrospectively a series of experiments in physiology (Langendorff preparation) performed in 1993 by Benveniste’s team for a public demonstration.

Keywords

memory of water, quantum-like probabilities, quantum cognition, entanglement, contextuality, nonlocal interactions

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