Does quantum mechanics predict the existence of a spiritual
"soul"? Testimonials from prominent physics researchers from
institutions such as Cambridge University,
Princeton University, and the Max Planck Institute for
Physics in Munich claim that quantum mechanics predicts some version of
"life after death." They assert that a person may possess a body-soul
duality that is an extension of the wave-particle duality of subatomic
particles.
Wave-particle duality, a fundamental concept of quantum
mechanics, proposes that elementary particles, such as photons and electrons,
possess the properties of both particles and waves.
These physicists claim that they can possibly extend this theory to the soul-body dichotomy.
If there is a quantum code for all things, living and dead, then there is an existence after
death (speaking in purely physical terms). Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, former head of
the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, posits that, just as a particle
"writes" all of its information on its wave function, the brain is
the tangible "floppy disk" on which we save our data, and this data
is then "uploaded" into the spiritual quantum field.
Continuing with this analogy, when we die the body, or
the physical disk, is gone, but our consciousness, or the data on the computer,
lives on.
