Cultural analysis of Quantum Consciousness Often Means Nonsense

In this post I will be addressing several key words I found useful when analyzing "Quantum Consciousness Often Means Nonsense". I will also be discussing what the thesis for his article is. Finally I will conclude this post by answering several questions related to the culture behind the text.

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Keywords

Three keywords that I found useful while analyzing this piece for cultural context were consciousness, science and quantum mechanics. 

The first keyword I chose because that is what the entire article is based off of. To the everyday person the idea of consciousness also conveys a lot of philosophical debate that a majority of people are more or less familiar with. 

Science falls in that same category. If you read my QRG on the debate going on over the scientific method, this will help inform you on what the word science conveys to a majority of people as well as scientists.

The word quantum mechanics I found to be just as central to the debate in this article as well as being one of the most misinformed about concept in physics. This produces both interesting interpretations as well as interesting connections between words.

Argument

The basic argument of this text is that scientist should not try to cross into other science fields unless there is a joint team that has specialists in both fields to correct the other fields when they get things wrong.

Connections

In the article one of the passage discusses how the public tends to view quantum mechanics. This paragraph seems to be slightly condescending to the reader because it makes it seem as though the reader is just another person from the public who has no understanding what quantum mechanics actually is. In connection with the thesis this paragraph seems to strengthen his argument because it makes it seem that while the person in reading the article may not know a thing about quantum mechanics it is safe to assume that the author knows a significant portion of the field.  This ties into the argument by showing that a person should not act as though they know everything about a field if he or she doesn't have someone there to correct them when they are wrong.