Schrödinger's Cat Smile

Problems in quantum mechanics are analyzed; this analysis demonstrates that their solution lies beyond the current scientific paradigm, which utilizes an objectbased description in a space-time representation. A variant allowing for resolution of the existing contradictions is proposed, which implies a reconsideration of the fundamental principles for reality modeling. 

The current views of the neuropsychological organization of the brain are briefly reviewed based on the systemic description by A.R. Luria, one of the founders of neuropsychology. The ability of the brain, i.e., to represent reality in a spacetime manner and to construct objects of a totality of elementary sensations, has been analyzed. Extrasensory perception abilities of the brain as well as the potential involvement of brain structures in quantum interactions have been discussed. 

Psychosemantics studies the genesis, structure, and functioning of an individual or collective consciousness and its major element, the meaning. The last can be fixed in the words of a natural language as well as signs, symbols, pictures, and so on in their meaning invariant to different individuals of the same culture in a socially scaled sense. To have a chance to compare sensations and to simulate (represent) the surrounding reality, an individual needs to “construct” a certain semantic space (mental map of reality) and define metric and system of coordinates. Definition of semantic spaces is the mathematical method to construct a mental map as a system that simulates an “objective reality” in terms of mathematical structures (arbitrary sets with the relations defined on them)

A topological model of the object-based space is represented as a bundle allowing for a complete description of an object by specifying the intensity and rigidity of its properties, and the object itself is represented as a resultant vector. As a case study, an object-based space is constructed that makes it possible to obtain the relations of the special theory of relativity as the conservation laws of informational content without using the hypothesis on the existence of space and time. 

Analysis of the quantum physics experiments relying on the object-based concepts in space-time terms leads to irresolvable paradoxes. These paradoxes can be resolved by accepting that the wave function collapse, similar to time, matches the object-based model in consciousness that describes the result of observation and, moreover, the understanding of this means that the fact is fixed in the mental map.

The work by P. Florensky on the extension of geometry from the real region to a complex one under the metaphor of two non-overlapping worlds, real and imaginary, is successively analyzed. Assuming that consciousness functions in terms of a spacetime object-based concept, which actually corresponds to “classical reality”, it is possible to hypothesize that the unconscious is related to the space of states and corresponds to a quantum description from a physical standpoint.

In systems science, the category of goal is restored in its rights. However, the current studies are mainly confined to closed systems and are of an object-based character although the teleological principle, defining a system, is inapplicable to the object. The issues associated with the possibility of the subject to be included in systems analysis are discussed as well as the approaches to the research into evolutionary processes in open systems. In addition to this, the problems in a subjectbased approach in psychosemantics and quantum physics are considered.

Two types of reality representations are possible-spacetime, describing reality as processes, which may be referred to as “object-based” and corresponds to our unconscious perception, and “subject-based”, which is associated with the integral time-independent experience inseparable into objects. The latter forms the foundation for oriental philosophy and is attainable using various psychotechniques. As has emerged, the description of different quantum states in physics requires an analogous approach and this congruence has been mentioned by many outstanding scientists.