2nd European Samueli Symposium
Generalized Entanglement from a Multidisciplinary Approach, October 9-11, 2003

A. NAME AND LOCATION
Generalized Entanglement from a Multidisciplinary Approach
Freiburg, Germany
October 9-11, 2003

B. SPONSORS
SAMUELI INSTITUTE

C. PURPOSE AND FOCUS
To explore and discuss the question whether entanglement between macroscopic systems and systems not treated within the quantum mechanic formalism are viable scientific ideas. If entanglement is important beyond the strict realm of physics, it would have intriguing consequences for other branches of science as well as for medicine and healing.

D. AUDIENCE
Basic and clinical scientists, theoretical physicists, mathematicians and information specialists, psychologists and philosophers.

E. OUTCOME
The papers presented at the conference were published in a Samueli Institute Proceedings in May 2004.
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD FROM THE ORGANIZERS   v
Harald Walach, Ph.D., Dipl. Psych.
Rainer Schneider, Ph.D., Dipl. Psych.

PARTICIPANTS  vii

EDITORS’ COMMENTS  x

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS   xi
CONTRIBUTED MANUSCRIPTS
NIELS BOHR’S IDEA OF COMPLEMENTARITY

IN REFLECTIVE PRAGMATISM  1
Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich, Prof. Dr.

WEAK QUANTUM THEORY: COMPLEMENTARITY  8
AND ENTANGLEMENT IN PHYSICS AND BEYOND
Harald Atmanspacher, Ph.D.
Hartmann Römer, Prof. Dr.
Harald Walach, Ph.D., Dipl. Psych.

AT HOME IN THE QUANTUM WORLD   35
Günter Mahler, Prof. Dr.

STRING THEORY, UNIVERSAL MIND,  49
AND THE PARANORMAL
Brian D. Josephson, Prof. Dr.

DOES CONSCIOUSNESS COLLAPSE THE WAVE FUNCTION?  55
Dick J. Bierman, Prof. Dr.

GENERALIZED ENTANGLEMENT—POSSIBLE EXAMPLES,   66
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, EXPERIMENTAL TESTS
Harald Walach, Ph.D., Dipl. Psych.

RCR—A THOUGHT FORM TO DEAL WITH ENTANGLEMENT  96
K. Helmet Reich, Ph.D., Dipl. Ing.

CORRELATIONS BETWEEN BRAIN ELECTRICAL ACTIVITIES  108
OF TWO SPATIALLY SEPARATED HUMAN SUBJECTS
Jiri Wackerman, Ph.D.
Christian Seiter, Dipl. Psych., Dipl. Biol.
Holger Keibel, MA
Harald Walach, Ph.D., Dipl. Psych.

THE MEANING(S) OF ENTANGLEMENT IN  117
ENTANGLEMENT THEORY
Michael E. Hyland, Prof. Dr., C.Psychol.

TOWARDS ENTANGLEMENT METAPHORS FOR   129
HOMEOPATHY, PATIENT-PRACTITIONER-REMEDY (PPR)
ENTANGLEMENT
Lionel R. Milgrom, Ph.D., C.Chem., FRCS, LCH, MARH, B.Sc., M.Sc.

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF INFORMATION TRANSMISSION  150
BETWEEN KILLED AND SURVIVING INDIVIDUALS OF THE
SAME BIOLOGICAL POPULATION AS REPRESENTATION OF
SPECIES CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS EVOLUTIONARY ROLE
Aroutioun Agadjanian, Ph.D.

GENERALIZED ENTANGLEMENT: RECAP, WRAP-UP,   00
AND OUTLOOK
Rainer Schneider, Ph.D., Dipl. Psych.
Harald Walach, Ph.D., Dipl. Psych.

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

Aroutioun Agadjanian, Ph.D.
21st Century Information
Vancouver, BC, V6E 4K2, Canada
arut@canada.com

Harald Atmanspacher, Ph.D.
Institut für Grenzgebiete der psychologie
und Psychohygiene
79098 Freiburg, Germany
haa@igpp.de

Dick J. Bierman, Prof. Dr.
University of Amsterdam
Institute for Psycholgy
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
bierman@psy.uva.nl

Ronald A. Chez, M.D.
Samueli Institute for Information Biology
2101 E Coast Highway, Suite 300
Corona del Mar, CA 92625
rchez@siib.org

Hartmann Römer, Prof. Dr.
Department of Physics
79104 Freiburg, Germany

Michael E. Hyland, Prof. Dr., C.Psychol.
University of Plymouth
Faculty of Human Sciences
Department of Psychology
Plymouth PL4 8AA
England, UK
mhyland@plymouth.ac.uk

Brian D. Josephson, Prof. Dr.
Department of Physics, University of
Cambridge
Cavendish Laboratory
Madingly Rd.
Cambridge CB3 0HE, England, UK
bdj10@cam.ac.uk

Holger Keibel, MA
University of Freiburg
Postgraduate Program in Cognitive Sciences
79098 Freiburg, Germany

Günther Mahler, Prof. Dr.
Universität Stuttgart
Institute for Theoretical Physics I
70550 Stuttgart, Germany
mahler@theo1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de

Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich, Prof. Dr.
Grafenstrasse 50
45239 Essen , Germany
klaus.meyer-abich@uni-essen.de

Lionel R. Milgrom, Ph.D., C.Chem, FRCS, LCH,
MARH, B.Sc., M.Sc.
Department of Chemistry
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and
Medicine
London, SW7 2A2, England, UK
l.milgrom@ic.ac.uk

K. Helmut Reich, Ph.D., Dipl. Ing.
School of Education, University of Fribourg
1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
helmut.reich@unifr.ch

Rainer Schneider, Ph.D., Dipl. Psych.
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Institut für umweltmedizin und
krankenhaushygiene
79106 Freiburg, Germany
rschneider@iuk3.ukl.uni-freiburg.de

Christian Seiter, Dipl. Psych., Dipl. Biol.
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Institut für umweltmedizin und
krankenhaushygiene
79106 Freiburg, Germany
walach@ukl.uni-freiburg.de

Jirí Wackermann, Ph.D.
Department of Empirical and Analytical
Psychophysics (EAP)
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology
79098 Freiburg, Germany
jw@igpp.de

Harald Walach, Ph.D., Dipl. Psych.
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Institut für umweltmedizin und
krankenhaushygiene
79106 Freiburg, Germany
walach@ukl.uni-freiburg.de