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Ravi Gomatam
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“As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!”
Ravi Gomatam (born 1950) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An interview with Ravi Gomatam by Thomas Beardy for Clarion Call magazine (Clarion University's newspaper)There Consciousness Within Science?", 1990.
“Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it…To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity…To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable—consciousness.”
Ravi Gomatam (born 1950) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An interview with Ravi Gomatam by Thomas Beardy for Clarion Call magazine (Clarion University's newspaper)There Consciousness Within Science?", 1990.
“Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it has proven impossible to find any consistent way to visualize the world underlying quantum theory in terms of our pictures in the everyday world. The general conclusion is that in quantum theory naive realism, although necessary at the level of observations, fails at the microscopic level.”
Ravi Gomatam (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: R.Gomatam's paper Physics and Commonsense - Reassessing the connection in the light of the quantum theory, 2004.
“Quantum physicists today are reconciled to randomness at the individual event level, but to expect causality to underlie statistical quantum phenomena is reasonable. Suppose a person shakes an ink pen such that ink spots are formed on a white wall, in what appears for all intents and purposes, randomly. Let us further suppose the random ink spots accumulate to form precise pictures of different known persons' faces every time. We will not regard the overall result to be a happenchance; we are apt to suspect there must be a "method" to the person who is shaking the ink pen.”
Ravi Gomatam (born 1950) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: R.Gomatam’s response to Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg's article "Einstein's Mistakes" published in Physics Today,Volume 59, Issue 4, Letters, October, 2005.
“The Schrödinger equation, which is at the heart of quantum theory, is applicable in principle to both microscopic and macroscopic regimes. Thus, it would seem that we already have in hand a non-classical theory of macroscopic dynamics, if only we can apply the Schrödinger equation to the macroscopic realm. However, this possibility has been largely ignored in the literature because the current statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics presumes the classicality of the observed macroscopic world to start with. But the Schrödinger equation does not support this presumption. The state of superposition never collapses under Schrödinger evolution.”
Ravi Gomatam (born 1950) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Invited talk, delivered at the joint Indo-US Workshop on System of Systems Engineering, IIT-Kanpur, October 26-28, 2009.
“Two features of QT are commonly taken to be fundamentally non-classical: the absolute randomness of single events in the atomic regime, and the need for a permanent record of the experiment obtained using a macroscopic experimental arrangement…QT can also be applied to the larger system consisting of the original atomic system plus the macroscopic experimental arrangement. In this case, however, the larger system needs to interact with another stage of macroscopic recording. Since this procedure can continue ad infinitum, and is decisively terminated only when the result of an experiment is interpreted by a conscious observer, some noted quantum theorists have promoted the view that the quantum theory has some nexus with the consciousness of the observer...”
Ravi Gomatam (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ravi Gomatam's paper "How do Classical and Quantum Probabilities Differ?", delivered at the conference on Foundations of Probabilities and Physics - 6 (FPP-6), Vaxjo, Sweden, June 13-17, 2011.