Some notes on the nonlocal nature of the probability clouds associated with all matter/energy structures
Stein Henning Braten Reusch
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Background with some references: [[[The notes here are succinct but, I believe, coherent, and free from being absolutely married with any of the several most interesting and most coherent interpretation of the empirical phenomena associated with quantum physics. For those not used to thinking metaphysically as inspired by all developments in the ground-forms of physics as for the past century and more, it will take time to read them, but they stand on their own to a large extent, and are useful as extensions of the comments on the probability cloud associated with EEG as a theory of consciousness. For those who are more into physics than in the philosophy of physics, and who therefore come to it from a more 'engineering' standpoint, the following somewhat dense paragraph provides some useful further references for them to update their philosophical grasp of what is going on with physical science:
The concept of the probability cloud as I use it in the Consciousness article [ie, Connecting Consciousness and Matter: seeing them together in a non-reductive way, paying respect to simple acknowledged scientific facts about matter and the human brain, 2025/4/20, Yoga6d.org/sciencefolder] is not merely that of a 'bundle/cloud of probabilities' if by probability we mean a percentage or a permille of likelihood. I mean it in eg the sense of 'density of vectors' in its own space, rather as the technically superb physicist Richard Feynman speaks of his 'history of possible paths' in his book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.
However, in contrast to Feynman’s QED book of 1985, the vectors must be understood more consciously in a context of nonlocality to serve as adequate description of how probability clouds underlie mostly all phenomena in quantum physics, including superfluidity, coherence, tunneling, and superposition. Nonlocality as we know, is clearly shown in mainstream physics through strong instances of confirmation with Alain Aspect's experiments eg. in 1982, where he in laboratory demonstrated the numerical ‘violation of Bell's inequalities’. As is very well known in the history of physics, John Steward Bell in 1964, inspired strongly by David Bohm's hidden variable theory rephrased the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought experiment to an empirically oriented numerical test for whether classical (ie, within speed of light) or nonlocal (ie, beyond speed of light) interactions would yield the same predictions as the established often-confirmed equation in normal quantum experiments.
The metaphysical impact of Aspect's work was to put into question Einstein's rather absolute notion of the speed of light and as is known, there have been many attempts by mainstream scientists to rescue Einstein's notion by means of jostling the assumed space-time continuum much more than in his theory of general relativity. Some of us, including this writer, do not share obsession by Einstein to let all aspects of the universe orbit freely around the speed of light and in the wake of Aspect and the many other demonstrations of nonlocality since then also with tunneling molecules, prefer the simpler explanation: that space and time is more absolute as vaguely along the original lines as seen by Newton while the effects of gravitation and the appearance of the constancy of the speed of light are surface phenomena which must be given a consistent numerical description without upsetting all metaphysics and rendering time into a total illusion. In such a view, the speed of light a surface phenomenon which has its own complexities rather than a deep fact of the universe around which everything else orbits--more about that in my super-model theory from 2017; see g15pmn.com for extract of book as a PDF booklet.
By the way, the concept of beta EEG waves in EEG research, has a frequency range not quite as high as the one I mention in the consciousness article. Apart from some small errors like that, I fully stand by that article in every sense, and, with it as foundation, plan to engage in what I think is fruitful EEG research where long-term research objectives aim to show how human immediacy in actual human-to-human relationship, also in therapeutic contexts, is general vastly superior to the human-robot or human-chatbot or human-machine connection—but researched on in an as objective manner as at all possible.]]]
The nonlocal nature of the probability clouds associated with all matter/energy in space The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen [thought] experiment depicts an actual faster-than-light (possibly instantaneous) 'shared' probability feature.
In case it is described as a probability cloud, we're talking one with its own dimensions. It is not merely a cloud in three dimensions.
Ontologically, the cloud may be considered as existing in its own--in addition to the physical wave and physical particle--or as a composite product--in both cases with nonlocal properties. In Niels Bohr’s interpretation, such a cloud ‘creates’ the particle during measurement while in Louis de Broglie’s interpretation, it is the result of the bridging of a classical wave with a new type of wave while the particles exist all the time. De Broglie, one of the recognized top-five forefathers of quantum theory, re-described his theory towards the nonlocal after reading Bohm’s work in the 1950s (see reference and quotes by de Broglie in my super-model theory PDF from 2017 found with the Third Foundation algorithms at www.g15pmn.com. De Broglie achieved, by this re-description, the same numerical prediction’s of the Copenhagen Interpretation (thus successfully meeting the objections of the first form of the pilot wave theory by the Copenhagen group some decades earlier). Bohm’s quantum potential is a different take on it, to which de Broglie did not quite agree to; but in both cases the probability cloud—or a factor in it—is described as ontologically real and existing in parallel to particles with a more or less continuous existence.
I propose: the probability cloud is changing all the time. It is not merely changing when there is a so-called 'measurement situation'. And that means that it is nonlocally changing all the time.
The probability cloud, while having some features in common with a classical wave, are described in quantum physics as a modification of the workings of a classical wave with new dimensionality that transcends the dimensionality of normal space in several ways (both as vectors associated with observables and as nonlocality). The fact that we have a similarity to a classical wave in some ways, and the fact that we do have such a description in quantum physics of the shape of it, does not mean that this equation does more than summarize how it unfolds when 'everything else is constant'. In other words, it is best to assume it is an initial description rather than an exhaustive description. The very concept of the indeterminacy associated with the complementarity of the Niels Bohr approach suggests that this is not an exhaustive description-- of whatever reality may be involved.
So entangled property means that there are probability cloud features--call them 'vectors' or what you want--in which the dimensionality of the probability cloud differs from the dimensionality of the 3d 'spread-out' physical situation. In that way, a change at one place is also a change at another place. The HUP, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, asserts that the interactions [at least at this level of manifest existence] takes place with the Planck's energy constant or size as unbroken.
So in the case of EEG for instance, there is the photonic field--electro-magnetism-- as a 3d spread-out wave; there is the photon or particle as a localized energy; and there is the probability cloud with its own dimensionality. In both bohmian and de Broglie interpretations, the particle has an existence that keeps on and which has a non-local sort of interaction with something else--whether that is thought of as a sort of ontological form of the probability cloud, or as something that in sum gives the effect of the probability cloud. In bohrian interpretations, the particle pops into existence when there are certain changes of the probability cloud.
The probability cloud has its own dimensionality and whatever metaphysical principles underlies it -- or its components -- as for its reality, and for its 'location', its locality does not depend on the locality of the energy associated with it, but rather the locality of the energy--and even the structure of this energy, be it photonic fields and/or fermions, associated with it depends on it. This also means that a suitable coherent change of the probability cloud is the same as the change of locality of the energy/matter involved. This not only permits 'tunneling' of particles and molecules, but movement of whole chunks of macroscopic matter faster than the speed of light. [Some could interpret the movement of faster than speed of light as a movement of time-space itself; however it is more likely that time-space should be left in an absolute sense and that the idea by Einstein of the absoluteness of the speed of light should be relativized so that the speed of light constant is an appearance and a surface phenomenon rather than a deep ontological insight.] As said, the non-exhaustive description of the form of the probability cloud allows us to postulate, as a clear and vivid possibility, that some forms of probability cloud may change other forms of probability cloud nonlocally and drastically. There's nothing in physics that prohibits this except lack of visionary thinking. And there may be little-thought of empirics that even, to some extent, 'necessities' such a proposal as the 'simplest' one.
By the way: Since outlining the idea of how our human consciousness, at a level, matches the probability cloud associated with the photonic field of the human body and more specifically the brain,--which is not to say that it matches the EEG, but rather the probability cloud associated with the EEG, I have thought of a first metaphor of the probability cloud in that of the hologram. I repeat, as a first metaphor. [In this regard, Karl Pribram championed in the late 1980s and early 1990s the concrete (ie, non-metaphorical) use of some features of the hologram concept in connection with consciousness;like Roger Penrose he sought to look for specific quantum processes in some structures of the brain to relate to consciousness. As I noted in the consciousness article, I approve of a plurality of theories in biology and psychology as this has historically, in the history of these sciences, often shown itself to be the most fruitful approach, speaking pragmatically, and also because I regard consciousness to be mani-folded and have more than one level. However the way I relate consciousness to the probability cloud associated with, and not identical to, the EEG of the brain, is not dependent on such particular quantum processes as Pribram was seeking to identify. The beauty of the hologram as metaphor cannot however be doubted.]
