A Libertarian pre-spacetime of free will? The broken symmetry of time from Professor Ruth E. Kastner

UPDATE: My response from Professor Kastner:

Thanks, I'll look further into this.

Re 'spontaneous symmetry breaking'--actually this can be consistent with the idea that there is fundamental asymmetry in the foundation of reality. The 'symmetry' would then only be a property of a theory which can't get at the asymmetric foundations but is otherwise a good approximation, and that's why it works so well as far as predictions.

I have already been exploring the idea of volition as coming from the quantum level (this compares to the idea of 'self-force').

Thus, our volitional Self is at least partially “preconscious” (Velmans’ term). How might we understand this, with the help of quantum theory? I have argued elsewhere (and in the above-linked books) that quantum theory instructs us that reality is larger than we thought–larger than the “spacetime theater” in which our empirical data is collected. Specifically, I’ve proposed that the set of events that we call “spacetime” is emergent from the quantum level, which is more tenuous and fluid, and therefore more Mind-like.

Professor Ruth E. Kastner

It is reminiscent of an aboriginal dreamtime 

Dr. Kastner says in her talk about her libertarian view of quantum physics.

https://twitter.com/rekastner she links to a political libertarian thinktank, founded by a person who took over my job after I graduated from UW-Madison. here

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Key to her PTI view of quantum physics is asymmetric time - there has to be a symmetry breaking of time.

Her book, Understanding our Unseen Reality

Follow up questions at her 2014 talk

 By incorporating principles from relativistic quantum theory, which were absent from the original transactional picture, I have been able to obtain a clear criterion for the boundary between the microscopic quantum realm and the macroscopic classical realm, which is the point at which collapse is overwhelmingly likely to occur (although the collapse process is fundamentally indeterministic).

 Her guest blog post at SciAm

 This world of potentialities is not contained within space and time; it is a higher-dimensional world whose structure is described by the mathematics of quantum theory.

 neither the positive-energy offer wave nor the negative-energy confirmation wave carries real energy, and neither is contained in spacetime. It is only in the encounter between the two that real energy may be conveyed within spacetime from an emitter to an absorber--and when this occurs, all the energy is delivered in the normal future direction.

 we must allow for the startling idea that there is more to reality than what can be contained within spacetime.

And so it is the 5D model of reality like Paul S. Wesson incorporating de Broglie's Law of Phase Harmony

 So, in other words, 3-D space is embedded in a larger 4-D space, just as the 2-D surface of a balloon is embedded in 3-D space.

 But in the transactional interpretation, the transition itself is defined in physical terms, by absorber response. So one does not need to invoke an ‘external conscious observer’ in order to define the measurement transition.

 And so this is very much as with the "proto-consciousness" model of Penrose and Hameroff.

"collapse is the process of spacetime emergence" - Ruth Kastner

more details

a consequence of the Davies relativistic quantum-mechanical version of the direct-action theory together with the asymmetry between fermionic field [electron] sources and bosonic fields [photon]

Which then solves the mystery of Schrodinger's Cat!

 So we can see how this would blend into Stuart Kauffman's quantum chaos theory analysis.





 Professor Kastner and Deep-Pockets Chopra

 Bachelor of Music in Music Education, Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, May, 1979

I'm gonna email her since she understands music theory!