This document contains a series of questions posed to quantum physicist and activist Amit Goswami about his views on consciousness and quantum physics. Goswami believes that consciousness is primary and interacts with both classical and quantum components of the brain-mind in an idealist framework. He also believes that individual consciousnesses choose outcomes from quantum possibilities from a state of unitive consciousness where we are all one, and that nonlocal entanglement provides evidence for this unified consciousness.

1. Welcome to Amit Goswami
Quantum Physicist and Activist

4. Could you explain howVon Neumann et
al. reached the conclusion that
consciousness collapses the
wavefunction?

5. Decoherence studies show that
interactions with the “unthinking”
environment can rapidly collapse the
wavefunction (the outcome of the
collapse is still random though). Does
decoherence invalidate the
consciousness-causes-collapse
hypothesis?

6. Could you explain how you et al.
reached the conclusion that
consciousness is really one and, when we
choose the outcome of a quantum
collapse, we do so in a cosmic state of
consciousness in which we are all one
and the same?

7. “In the past few years it has become
increasingly clear to me that the only
view of the brain-mind that is complete
and consistent in its explanatory power
is this:The brain-mind is an interactive
system with both classical and quantum
components.These components interact
within a basic idealist framework in
which consciousness is primary.”

8. “How can reality be so subjective that each of
us observers can choose our own realities
from quantum possibilities? How can there
be any consensus reality in that case?...
Surprise, surprise.We don't choose in our
ordinary state of individual consciousness
that we call the ego... Instead, we choose
from an unconditioned, objective state of
unitive consciousness, the non-ordinary state
where we are one, a state we can readily
identify with God.”

9. Parallels with Daniel Kolak’s “Open
Individualism?”

10. Does nonlocal entanglement prove that
the consciousness that collapses the
wavefunction is one and the same?

11. Bohm’s fish example: what is the fish
and what are the screens?

12. Wife, Mother-in-Law, or both?

13. Is God “a person” like the Christian God
or an impersonal Deist God?

14. What is the soul?What happens to us
after death?

15. Is there any conceivable technology that
could retrieve and restore to life a soul?
Or should we be happy to let it happen
spontaneously?