Quantum soul

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22. What is "unfair" about your prejudice

is that instead of discussing reasonably you try to put words in my mouth a lá "wooish top-down, consciouness-first conjecture and mysticism". As mysticism refers to what cannot or should not be spoken about, real mysticism refers to Feymann's "shut up and calculate", not my attempts to discuss and understand quantum theory and it's philosophical etc. implications in natural language. That you somehow seem to feel threatened by.

You show your subjective and cultural prejudice in your expectation that science becomes "plausible science" only when it can be used for ideological purposes like technological control over natural processes like "new medicine" etc. Pure math and theoretical physics are primarily descriptive sciences for pure intellectual pleasure, not technological engineer sciences of putting math into use for ideological purposes (and by ideological I don't mean good or bad but teleological purpose oriented behavior).

As for mental illness, people have all sorts of experiences that the prevailing materialistic paradigm consider impossible or supernatural and signs of insanity, and I have seen that what such people often need most is someone just to listen their experiences without considering them mental patients in need of treatment. And being able to tell that science is not limited to materialist paradigm (even though many pseudoskeptics try to give such appearance) helps to keep the dialogue and channels of communication open between those with experiences that don't fit well with materialistic paradigm and science in general.

So becoming aware that scientific hypothesis like quantum mind/body/soul do exist helps many people feel less alone (against the condemnation and ridicule from the materialist prejudice) and equally importantly not to develope hostile attitude towards science as whole, which would be justified only if all of science - as social phenomenon - was hostile to such experiences.

"Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view." - Max Planck