Consciousness and Sub-quantum Epigenetics

Abstract

This article describes, for the first time, to the author’s knowledge, a new scientific discipline that studies the links between consciousness and quantum epigenetics, intersecting the themes of epigenetics, quantum physics, and psychology.

The main assumptions of this discipline are:

1) the memory of ancestral—and therefore unobservable—quantum information in the genetic makeup of cells (e.g., DNA, RNA, chromatin, mitochondrial DNA, etc.);

2) the ability of an individual in particular states of consciousness (e.g., extended state of consciousness) to perceive/remember this quantum information in the form of internal images or qualia[1];

3) the ability of consciousness to process this quantum information both for vital functions and to influence genetic expression, without causing alterations to the DNA sequence.

This paper concludes with the conjecture that this quantum information might be stored in condensations of Nambu Goldstone bosons in DNA, RNA, and chromatin.