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A field
is simply a quantity defined at every point throughout some region of
space and time.
't Hooft
Our
basic ontology is that all systems, macroscopic structures included,
are quantum fields [...]
Saunders
[All] chemical binding is electromagnetic in origin, and so are all phenomena of nerve impulses. Salam  When
a state is formed by the superposition of two other states, it will
have properties that are in some vague way intermediate between those
of the original states and that approach more or less closely to those
of either of them according to the greater or less 'weight' attached to
this state in the superposition process. The new state is completely
defined by the two original states when their relative weights in the
superposition process are known, together with a certain phase
difference, the exact meaning of weights and phases being provided in
the general case by the mathematical theory. Dirac
Among the many biological objects a particularly interesting one is the brain. For any theory to be able to claim itself as a brain theory, it should be able to explain the origin of such fascinating properties as the mechanism for creation and recollection of memories and consciousness. For many years it was
believed that brain function is controlled solely by the classical
neuron system which provides the pathway for neural impulses. This is
frequently called the neuron doctrine. The most essential one among
many facts is the nonlocality of memory function discovered by There
have been many models based on quantum theories, but many of them are
rather philosoph- ically oriented. The article by Burns [...] provides a
detailed list of papers on the subject of consciousness, including
quantum models. The incorrect perception that the quantum system has
only microscopic manifestations considerably confused this subject. As
we have seen in preceding sections, manifestation of ordered states is
of quantum origin. When we recall that almost all of the macroscopic
ordered states are the result of quantum field theory, it seems natural
to assume that macroscopic ordered states in biological systems are
also created by a similar mechanism. Umezawa
Well,
obviously the extra dimensions have to be different somehow because
otherwise we would notice them.
Green
Now it may be asked why these hidden
variables should have so long remained undetected.
Bohm  Where does
the yellow come in?
The fundamental principle of that philosophy is the opinion concerning colours, sounds, tastes, smells, heat and cold; which it asserts to be nothing but impressions in the mind, deriv'd from the operation of external objects, and without any resemblance to the qualities of the objects. §
This principle being once admitted, all other doctrines of that philosophy seem to follow by an easy consequence. For upon the removal of sounds, colours, heat, cold, and other sensible qualities, from the rank of continu'd independent existences, we are reduced merely to what are called primary qualities, as the only real ones, of which we have any adequate notion. These primary qualities are extension and solidity, with their different mixtures and modifications; figure, motion, gravity and cohesion. The genera- tion, encrease, decay and corruption of animals and vegetables, are nothing but changes of figure and motion; as also the operations of all bodies on each other; of fire, of light, water, air, earth, and of all the elements and powers of nature [...] Thus there is a direct and total opposition betwixt our reason and senses [...] When we reason from cause and effect, we conclude, that neither colour, sound, taste, nor smell have a continued and independent existence. When we exclude these sensible qualities there remains nothing in the universe, which has such an existence. Hume
 The
mathematical machinery of quantum mechanics became that of spectral
analysis... Steen
In
attempting to judge the success of a physical theory, we may ask
ourselves two questions: (1) “Is the theory correct?” and (2) “Is the
description given by the theory complete?” It is only in the case in
which positive answers may be given to both of these questions, that
the concepts of the theory may be said to be satisfactory. The
correctness of the theory is judged by the degree of agreement between
the conclusions of the theory and human experience [...]
Whatever
the meaning assigned to the term complete,
the following requirement
for a complete theory seems to be a necessary one: every element of the
physical reality must have a counterpart in the physical
theory.
EPR
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  Physicists talk about two kinds of fields: classical fields and quantum fields. Actually, we believe that all fields in nature are quantum fields. A classical field is just a special large-scale manifestation of a quantum field. But since classical fields were discovered first and are easier to understand, it is necessary to say what we mean by a classical field first, and go on to talk about quantum fields later. A classical field is a kind of tension or stress which can exist in empty space in the absence of matter. It reveals itself by producing forces, which act on any material objects which happen to lie in the space the field occupies. § In order to describe completely the state of the fields in a given region of space, it is necessary to specify the strength and the direction of both the electric and the magnetic fields at every point of the region separately. This is the characteristic mathematical property of a classical field: it is an undefined something which exists throughout a volume of space and which is described by sets of numbers, each set denoting the field strength and direction at a single point in the space. Dyson
There is nothing else except these fields: the whole of the material universe is built of them. (Dyson) The text of this volume claims that the mathematical formulations that have been developed for quantum mechanics and quantum field theory can go a long way toward describing neural processes due to the functional organization of the cerebral cortex.Pribram
 A
projection matrix
 is an  square matrix that gives a vector space projection from  to a subspace  . The columns of  are the projections of the
standard basis vectors, and  is the image of  . We also find that the role the gauge potentials play in fiber-bundle space in gauge theory is exactly same as the role the affine connection plays in curved space-time in general relativity. Cao  We can also find information embodied in conscious experience. The pattern of color patches in a visual field, for example, can be seen as analogous to that of pixels covering a display screen. Intriguingly, it turns out that we find the same information states embodied in conscious experience and in underlying physical processes in the brain.The three- dimensional encoding of color spaces, for example, suggests that the information state in a color experience corresponds directly to an information state in the brain. We might even regard the two states as distinct aspects of a single information state, which is simultaneously embodied in both physical processing and conscious experience. Chalmers
Repeated
time and again with unimaginably more sophisticated and sensitive
apparatus than Young's,
the double-slit experiment encapsulates, said
the physicist Richard Feynman, the "heart of quantum mechanics," its
"only mystery."
The question now is, how does it really work? What machinery is actually producing this thing? Nobody knows any machinery. Nobody can give you a deeper explanation of this phenomenon than I have given [...] Feynman
It is increasingly clear that the symmetry group of nature is the deepest thing that we understand about nature today. Weinberg The
ultimate of ultimate problems, of course, in the study of the relations
of thought and brain, is to understand why and how such disparate
things are connected at all […] We must find the minimal mental fact
whose being reposes directly on a brain-fact; and we must similarly
find the minimal brain event which will have a mental counterpart at
all. William
James
Einstein
and Bohr had a debate.
All other psychological phenomena are derived from the combinations of these ultimate psychological elements, as the totality of words may be derived from the totality of letters. Completion of this task would provide the basis for a Characteristica universalis of the sort that had been conceived by Leibniz, and before him, by Descartes. Brentano
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