Can humans expand consciousness? Oxford physicist says YES

Human consciousness has always been an enigma for the scientific community. Various debates surrounding consciousness revolve around unexplored brain capacity and ways to unlock hidden layers of reality.

Recently an Oxford physicist has made dropped mind-blowing claims, focusing on the possibility of expanding human consciousness, as reported by Popular Mechanics.

Vlatko Vedral, Physics professor at the University of Oxford, talked about “Quantum analogy of thought”. According to the professor, human consciousness is not merely a biological or logical process, but a series of quantum events happening within the brain.

Like the dual nature of light, the human mind also possesses duality, oscillating between intuitive thinking (acting as waves) and logical decision-making (acting as particles).

“[Our] consciousness is the product of a huge number of quantum double-slit experiments,” physicist said.

Hence, when humans are in the state of contemplation, they can explore many paths at once. In the state of contemplation, humans enter a state of uncertainty. Through the series of thoughts we can collapse this superposition of thought and replace it with another one by expanding the horizon. The process continues till a definite or logical thought is formed, leading to the disappearance of interference of lateral thinking.

Hence the physicist argues our creativity stems from quantum interference. Talking about the artificial intelligence, Vedral said, current AI systems are limited as it follows rigid and logical steps.

On the contrary, humans’ subconscious mind possesses the ability to process vast amounts of information in parallel on the basis of quantum uncertainty. And AI lacks this feature

Vedral suggests that future quantum brain-interfaces could extend these states of uncertainty, allowing for unprecedented levels of human creativity and a qualitative leap in how we perceive reality.