I've been thinking some more about my new favorite quack topic, quantum consciousness, and I want to get your opinions. This is kind of longish, but I think philosophical types will find it interesting. Tell me your mad scientist thoughts!

Some new potential mechanisms of brain function are in the process of being tinkered with and analyzed. Quantum effects as a feature of molecular bioactivity, a phenomenon completely unknown until the 21st century, are becoming the subject of cutting edge experimentation and theorizing. The high sensitivity of these molecular sites of quantum behavior to trace energy sources and their prevalence in all kinds of sense organs as well as additional tissues suggests a systemic function for reacting to, perceiving and in many cases experiencing conscious awareness of aspects of the environment lying beyond visible light spectrums, sound waves, shock vibrations and conventional atomic structure in scent and taste, a kind of biological responsivity to obscure phenomena such as electromagnetism, which we might incline to classify as "extra-sensory". Molecular mechanisms capable of registering the earth's magnetic field have been identified in birds, insects and elsewhere in nature, what has been termed "magnetoreception". The body's own electromagnetic field generated by the nervous system and especially brains may also broadly interact with these quantum state chemical reactions as an additional layer of organic causality, possibly offering a better explanation for the integrated, fluid holism of qualitative consciousness in contrast to the fundamentally dispersed nature of biochemical particularity as traditionally modeled.

Statistically significant synchronization in the brain waves of meditators separated by thousands of miles has been recorded with scientific instrumentation, hinting at non-thermodynamic, "non-local" phenomena, a modeling of which will probably subvert many assumptions of conventional chemistry, though much more data must be obtained in order to form a solid picture of what is going on. Scientists are finding mechanisms that profoundly transgress three-dimensional images of matter, defying the billiard ball portrayal of efficient causality, which employs concepts of direct contact, equal and opposite reaction of the sort defined by classical physics, to describe the molecular scale.

Science's thermodynamic models work extremely well in the majority of laboratory and industrial contexts, but the synthetic nature of human mental experience seems to be deeply disjuncted from standard atomic theory with its absolutely discrete nanoscale units and their time-lagged interactions. The most recent lab work in theoretical physics reinforces our more introspective intuitions, for the notion of atoms is transforming into a model of the basics of matter as more structurally diffuse, capable of exceeding spatial constraints characteristic of macroscopic objects, consisting of flowing and perturbing quantum fields that surpass the possibilities inherent in theories of chemical bonding behavior between localized particles. Consciousness, external reality and their growingly well-defined connection seem to destine a reconstituted conception of the physical, as involving quantum-like properties that contradict the classical paradigm of force interrelationships between collections of fundamental spheres.

Matter is seeming more and more to be pervasively supra-spatial, transcending Newtonian physics in many domains of science, with the apparent role of entanglement, coherence, synchronicity, superposition, and retroactive causality inexorably increasing. Despite this trend, the classical model is not to be considered pure illusion. Though quantum non-locality undoubtedly obtains, matter evinces some intrinsic spatial properties that cannot simply be explained away as an artifact of anthrocentric perceptions. The phase changes in large aggregates of molecules, from solid to liquid to gas to plasma, spontaneously take place according to principles of entropic motion with much more affinity to models based on three-dimensional particularity than any notion of non-locality. It is clear from scientific analysis that as the amount or "mass" of matter increases, certain constraints on quantum behavior seem to grow in influence, so that for instance complex biochemical systems display salient quantum mechanisms significantly set apart from a general dampening of quantum coherence by large-scale thermodynamic interactions. Classical physics and traditional chemistry provide such effective explanations because phenomenality in its incarnation as macroscopic objects and motions accurately reflects dynamics of earth environments that subsist at similar scaling, with our spatially oriented sense organs such as eyes, ears and noses adapted to complement aggregated mass. Thermodynamic phenomena can differ in widely variant macroscopic conditions such as much more massive, gravitationally compacted black holes, where it is postulated that sub-atomic particles are not even capable of forming atoms let alone molecules, but bulk matter never, as far as scientists can quite penetratingly surmise, totally dissolves into a non-local, "quantum" state. Structural properties of substances at the macroscopic level look to be deeply consonant with three-dimensionality, despite non-local coherence.

The consistent violation of Newtonian physics by phenomena of non-locality in perception, nature and the lab, combined with the only partial inhibition of non-locality by mass interpreted classically, suggests that the most accurate theoretical paradigm is one regarding the properties of non-locality in substance as primary. The more local phenomena we anthrocentrically observe to be "particles", appearing as spontaneously fixated structurally relative to light waves, sound waves, vibrations and our own bodies, in interactive dynamics inhering at or near the human scale, seem to then be a subset of the possibilities for how substance is instantiated. Macroscopic masses perceived as particles are modellable as "atomic" only under this partial range of conditions, namely as experienced by what we know as human-like "organisms" adapted to the "chemistry" (bulk properties of substance) of specifically earthbound ecosystems. Science currently theorizes these biochemical ecosystems in relation to some key phenomena enriched by analysis into overarching principles, such as "reproduction", "metabolism", "physiology", "natural selection", "mutation", etc., which gives us an only fractional but nonetheless workable comprehension of the causality in our environment that from a historical view seems to hold much promise for continuing progress of massive proportions, though also not lacking major difficulties.

So, science has quite an array of accomplished conventions bringing greater clarity to the awareness of nature, in physics, chemistry, biology and elsewhere, yet some of our more obscure experiences along with new avenues of research strongly intimate that reality is not essentially structured in the way modernized theoretical modeling has tended to suggest, as a timeline distributed in a matrix of three-dimensional space. Three-dimensional objects traveling in apparent sequences, a notion characterizing the core knowledge of molecular chemistry we associate with superstructures such as macroscopic objects or life, is unique to mass and its entropic properties on an earthbound scale, which our sense organs have been evolutionarily adapted to find almost reflexively intuitive. What we define as material properties, with deep impact on life processes, are one of the main sources for our impressions of stability or mercuriality in the environment, its distinctly organic relevance substantially constraining and motivating human behavior as well as that of biology as a whole. But the structure of matter and bodies on our planet seems to have underlying facets of non-locality, and the mind taps into this more pervading, quantum-like substrate of causality as it perceives, experiences and is affected by the so-called paranormal.

It don't get any bizarrer than that!