Philosophy / Science / Religion

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Alex

(though just to be clear these discoveries are all nearly a century old)

The reason that I included that aside is my sense when you talk about the way these discoveries were conveyed is that you're reporting them as if you personally remember when they were announced.

If that is incorrect and you're referring to the discoveries of the 1910s and 1920s (which is what I'm talking about) then apologies.

But if you aren't, I'm wondering if what you're recalling is the explosion of Quantum Mysticism starting in the mid-'70s (such as with Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics and Gary Zukov's The Dancing Wu Li Masters, and eventually Deepak Chopra's claptrap) which "discovered" the implications of quantum mechanics for theories of consciousness. These generally involve horrible abuse of the science they claim to build on, extending it by metaphor into areas on which actual quantum mechanics has nothing to say, at best, or says the opposite, at worst.