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Furlong, D (2024) Consciousness and wave/particle duality: Underpinning the phenomenology of transpersonal psychology. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 25 (1). pp. 5-24. ISSN 1366-6991
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Abstract
One of the challenges of materialism is explaining how phenomenal consciousness emerges from physicality. The theory of panpsychism has been proposed to answer this question by suggesting that consciousness is ubiquitous within the Universe, that the Universe is a mental construct, and that even the atoms and sub-atomical particles manifest a rudimentary form of consciousness or proto-consciousness. If panpsychism or one of its derivatives is true, then evidence of consciousness must exist within simple quantum mechanical atomic structures like the hydrogen atom, which expresses wave/particle duality. Furthermore, it is likely within the wave state that rudimentary consciousness resides. Significantly, if the concept of wave/particle duality is then applied to human consciousness, that our consciousness expresses both a particle state and wave state, then through its ripple effect and quantum entanglement, anomalous psycho-spiritual human experiences that hitherto cannot be explained in terms of physicalism can now be better understood. There is no need for new physics; we only need to reframe what we already know.
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| Additional Information: | This is a pre-publication version of the following article: Consciousness and wave/particle duality: Underpinning the phenomenology of transpersonal psychology,Transpersonal Psychology Review, Furlong, David, Volume 25, No. 1,© Copyright (2024), The British Psychological Society https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2024.25.1.5 |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology (from Sep 2019) |
| Publisher: | British Psychological Society |
| Date of acceptance: | 8 February 2024 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 April 2025 |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2025 14:43 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2025 13:40 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.53841/bpstran.2024.25.1.5 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26197 |
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