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Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences(JHSS)

ISSN: 2690-0688 | DOI: 10.33140/JHSS

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Collective and Universal Consciousness: Is Individuality an Evolutionary Accident?

Abstract

Alessandro De Angelis

We propose a novel interpretation of consciousness and an enlarged definition of locality, which provide a solution to the problem of the consistency of measurements in quantum mechanics: consciousness is a characteristics of the Universe as a whole. Besides its physical consequences, this interpretation has also moral implications: individuality comes out naturally to be just an accident functional to evolution which shaped past and present history through competition, and realizing this fact should enforce cooperation.

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