I have recently been listening to Sir Roger Penrose on his views about the problems in Quantum Mechanics, and reflecting deeply on his concern with Wave Function ‘Collapse’, which we suppose to be a ‘result’ of »measurement. What ‘measurement’ actually means (as opposed to what we make of it in thought or theory, is generally unknown at present. Some presume it to be a result of interaction with consciousness (Wigner), others simply decide to ignore the problem and get on with the math or the usage of the situation.

Schrödinger was deeply disturbed by his own math. His Schrödinger’s Cat model was meant to illustrate absurdity, not declare the nature of QM. But the problem in this model is simple: a cat is a macro (being-object), and is thus outside the QM situation … we believe at present … entirely.

While reflecting on these matters, it is clear to me that QM is either vastly incomplete, or we are missing a crucial feature of the situation, particularly in how it relates to gravity or macro-world processes. Penrose thinks that it is gravity that causes the wave collapse, and his ideas are intriguing.

But it occurs to me at the moment, that »language, and, particularly, the cognitive function of deriving »identity in thought … specifically the ‘what’ question (what/who something/someone »is) that represents an analog of wavefunction collapse in consciousness.

Our inclinations as regards identity are fundamentally »wrong, in the sense that these processes begin with principles that are demonstrably erroneous. All phenomena can be demonstrated to have infinite qualities and identities. No phenomena are ‘single-valued’ in the way consciousness of identity necessarily derives. The suspension of identity is the proper first principle, and, only after that may we reasonably suppose a ‘collapsed’ (one or few-valued) construct which we may manipulate for the purposes we are inclined to pursue. Actual identity is nothing like the figures in language that we use to manipulate it in consciousness.

If there »were a single-valued identity common to all phenomena, it must necessarily either be ‘God’ or ‘Everyone/Everything/Always’.