O mito da conciência cósmica

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Victor J. Stenger is Professor of Physics of the University of Hawaii and president of
Humanists Hawaii.

The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have
made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place science perceives for
humanity, as modern instruments probe the farthest reaches of space and time.

Incompatible with the claims of the new
holists, relativity not only supports the reductionist view - it makes it mandatory{!}

In describing the necessary interaction
between the observer and what is being observed, and how the state of a system is
determined by the act of its measurement, they inadvertently left the impression
that human consciousness enters the picture to cause that state come into being.
This led many who did not understand the physics, but liked the sound of the words
used to describe it, to infer a fundamental human role in what was previously a
universe that seemed to have need for neither gods nor humanity.

Quantum mechanics does not violate the Copernican principle that the
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universe cares not a whit about the human race. Long after humanity has
disappeared from the scene, matter will still undergo the transitions that we call
quantum events. The atoms in stars will radiate photons, and these photons will be
absorbed by materials that react to them. Perhaps, after we are gone, some of our
machines will remain to analyze these photons. If so, they will do so under the
same rules of quantum mechanics that operate today.

The fact that the world rarely is what we want it to be is the best evidence
that we have little to say about it. The myth of quantum consciousness should take
its place along with gods, unicorns, and dragons as yet another product of the
fantasies of people unwilling to accept what science, reason, and their own eyes tell
them about the world.