Better known as one of the featured scientists in the film What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Professor Goswami is a theoretical quantum physicist who believes that consciousness is the basis for all existence and that the universe is self-aware. Goswami considers himself a "quantum activist" and has written 8 books on the subject.
His most famous work is solving the quantum measurement problem in the famous observer effect in quantum physics.
He writes:
“Consciousness is the ground of all being. In this view, consciousness imposes ‘downward causation'. In other words, our free will is real. When we act in the world we really are acting with causal power. This view does not deny that matter also has causal potency — it does not deny that there is causal power from elementary particles upward, so there is upward causation — but in addition it insists that there is also downward causation. It shows up in our creativity and acts of free will, or when we make moral decisions. In those occasions we are actually witnessing downward causation by consciousness."
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