Mind and Matter
Even the famous psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung discussed with the equally famous quantum physicist and Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Pauli the possibilities of using the mathematical formalism of quantum theory to achieve a better understanding of the relationship between mind and matter.
These ideas were later developed into a generalized quantum theory with the significant involvement of IGPP. There is now both theoretical and empirical evidence that quantum concepts such as complementarity, contextuality and entanglement can play an important role in the study of consciousness and cognition.
The research focus on quantum cognition aims to investigate whether the generalized quantum theory can be empirically confirmed. The aim is also to understand what the analogs of a physical measurement and quantum physical entanglement states could be in the fields of psychology, cognition and neuroscience.
