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SUMMARY:Fringe Physics
DESCRIPTION:March 7 – 22\, 20266 two-hour sessions \n\n\n\n10am PDT/1pm EDT/5pm GMT/6pm CET \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday\, Bernard Carr\, Jeff Dunne\, Gwyneth Moss\, Dean Radin.Curated and Chaired by Jonathan Allday. \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA webinar series discussing topics at the edge of conventional physics. \n\n\n\nPhysics has something to say about reality. It would not have survived as an approach to the world for so many centuries if that wasn’t the case. Yet we have to be careful. Physics has bought its success by narrowing its focus and developing a specific approach. We shouldn’t think of it as a ‘catch-all\,’ capable of accounting for everything that we experience. \n\n\n\nThat’s a hard lesson for a physicist to learn.  \n\n\n\nIt may even be an aspect of the ‘ontological shock’ that Jeff Kripal warns us about in the context of anomalous phenomena. It certainly seems that there’s a ‘trickster’ element in everything from UAPs\, NDEs and other weird acronym-experiences. The phenomenon seems to be deliberately defying explanation. \n\n\n\nPerhaps it’s time to push back.  \n\n\n\nPerhaps it’s time to start thinking about how physics can be extended to accommodate (not ‘explain away’) stranger aspects of the world. It’s possible that physics it not equipped to do this\, but also possible that an extended and revised physics might help people integrate their experiences. \n\n\n\nIn this series of talks\, we’ll take on some of these topics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday March 7Mind and Multiverse: Part 1Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr in conversation about the Multiverse \n\n\n\nSunday March 8Mind and Multiverse; Part 2Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr in conversation about Mind \n\n\n\nSaturday March 14 Experimental Tests of the Consciousness: Collapse HypothesisWith Dean Radin \n\n\n\nSunday March 15 The Emergent Physical Universe: The Psychology of Subatomic ParticlesWith Jeff Dunne \n\n\n\nSarturday March 21The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Physics of QiWith Gwyneth Moss \n\n\n\nSunday March 22Beyond the PaleWith Jonathan Allday
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SUMMARY:Fringe Physics - Experimental Tests of the Consciousness: Collapse Hypothesis (Session 3 of 6)
DESCRIPTION:Experimental Tests of the Consciousness: Collapse Hypothesis \n\n\n\nFringe Physics\, Session 3 of 6 \n\n\n\nWith Dean Radin. \n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 14\, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nThese events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe role of observation in quantum mechanics remains one of the most persistent and intriguing open questions in science. From the earliest formulations of quantum theory\, it was clear that measurement plays a special role\, yet precisely what that role entails is still debated. Among the more provocative responses to this puzzle is the proposal\, associated with von Neumann and others\, that conscious observation itself contributes to the collapse of the quantum wave function. While this idea has long occupied a marginal position within physics\, it continues to attract interest at the intersection of quantum theory\, philosophy of mind\, and consciousness studies.  \n\n\n\nThe title Fringe Physics is intended in a double sense. It reflects both the unconventional status of the consciousness-collapse hypothesis and the fact that many of the relevant experiments involve interference fringes in quantum-optical systems. In this talk\, I review known experimental efforts that have explicitly or implicitly tested observer-dependent collapse\, including optical double-slit studies. Although the range of experiments differ widely in methods and interpretations\, they collectively form a small but coherent body of empirical work that has not been widely known outside specialized communities.  \n\n\n\nA central aim of the talk is to clarify distinctions that are often blurred in discussions of this topic. One is the difference between the strong claim that consciousness is necessary for wave-function collapse and the weaker claim that conscious observation may\, under certain conditions\, measurably influence quantum outcomes. Another is the distinction between establishing the existence of a small observer-dependent effect versus demonstrating practical or technological significance. The experimental literature bears only on these weaker claims\, yet the evidence is frequently criticized as if it were advancing the strongest possible versions of the hypothesis.  \n\n\n\nI will also discuss a recent analysis by Chalmers and McQueen\, who examined consciousness-based collapse models from the perspective of both philosophy of mind and quantum theory. They argue that while simple versions of the consciousness-collapse hypothesis are unlikely to be correct\, more sophisticated formulations remain empirically open and\, in principle\, testable. Their work provides a useful framework for assessing whether such proposals should be regarded as legitimate scientific hypotheses rather than as purely metaphysical speculation.  \n\n\n\nThe talk concludes with cautious\, provisional conclusions. I do not claim that the consciousness-collapse hypothesis has been established\, nor that it provides a superior solution to the measurement problem. Rather\, I suggest that the existing experimental record\, though limited\, is sufficiently structured to justify continued\, careful investigation. At minimum\, these studies serve as informative probes of our assumptions about measurement\, observation\, and the relationship between consciousness and the physical world. Whether they ultimately point toward new physics or help refine existing theories\, they occupy a scientifically legitimate\, and still unresolved\, fringe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)\, Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies\, and cofounder and chairman of the neuroengineering company\, Cognigenics. He earned a BS and MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary DSc from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore\, India.Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001\, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs\, Princeton University\, University of Edinburgh\, and SRI International. He has given over 830 talks and interviews worldwide\, is co-inventor on 12 patents\, and is author or coauthor of 350+ scientific and popular articles\, book chapters\, and five books\, all of which have been translated into foreign languages\, 15 so far: The Conscious Universe(1997)\, Entangled Minds (2006)\, Supernormal (2013)\, Real Magic (2018)\, and The Science of Magic (2025).  
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/fringe-physics-experimental-tests-of-the-consciousness-collapse-hypothesis-session-3-of-6/
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