Quantum Questions

Abstract

It does seem strange that quantum physics is seldom even mentioned in books or journal papers on psychology of perception (indeed, including this, our journal Perception), though the weird concepts of quantum mechanics challenge and should illuminate our notions of perceiving. We are familiar with visual phenomena of ambiguities, such as the Necker Cube and the Schroeder Staircase, but these are small beer compared with the heady notion that physical realities are changed and set by conscious perceptions; selecting one out of an infinity of possibilities, to `collapse the wave-function' into one shared reality to last perhaps for ever.