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Dr. Amit Goswami's
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Editor's note: The following is from Dr. Goswami's book, "Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism And Intelligent Design."
“In quantum physics, objects are depicted as possibilities (a possibility wave)... Editor’s note: Until a quantum possibility wave is collapsed, there are no material objects but only potential objects. “yet when an observer observes, the possibilities collapse to an actuality (the wave collapses to a particle, for example). This is the observer effect. Most importantly, quantum collapse of possibility into actuality is discontinuous, so the discontinuity of the ‘punctuation marks’ of evolution is instantly accommodated if we see them as instances of quantum creativity – discontinuous collapse of quantum possibility into actuality… This premise forms the core of theory of creative evolution… “Under the aegis of this philosophy, consciousness is looked upon as the ground of being in which matter exists as waves of possibility. Downward causation of the event of collapse consists of consciousness choosing the actuality from possibility… “Undoubtedly, the upholders of genetic determinism will point out a drawback here: Genes need not be treated as possibility waves; for them, deterministic Newtonian physics is sufficient. But this view is not justified. As the physicist W. M. Elsasser pointed out decades ago, gene mutations are quantum processes and must be treated as such, as changes in quantum waves of possibility. In macroevolution, consciousness creates new species by creatively choosing from genetic variations that exist as quantum possibilities.”
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