A preface to some of the writings in these pages.

Comments by friends and an awareness of 'fashionable' social connotations of scientific expression, as well as input of the often bewildering results stemming from some juxtaposition of values performed by the scientists themselves have urged me to provide this preface.

The main thing I wish to make clear is that "The quantum mechanics (of the mind)" as in the above title does not relate or refer to scientific "proofs" obtained in research, experiments or by conclusions in the physical sciences.

However, after several decades, while still 'Avant Guard' research, many of the astonishing results, findings and hypotheses this research created have, as broad concepts, been adopted in literature, the media and general conversation at a rapidly growing rate.

This could be epitomised, I think, with Einstein's famous equation E=mc2. Discounting its major popular usage which has been facetious, this concept has often been used in very descriptive analogy; and that is the direction my heading is pointing - to the amazing 'likeness' and 'parallels' there seem to be in things.

What I try to point out is that what we battle most with in all our attempts and attainment of knowledge is Uncertainty. Einstein showed that Energy & Matter are interchangeable! Through Quantum Theory "Uncertainty" has even become the basis for a principle! (Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle).

This, combined with the 'strange' fact that 'the sum of all the energy in the Universe equals zero' gives us, I think, a good justification for my heading as an analogy for much of our mental activity. You may not agree with all, or indeed any, of my philosophical inclinations, but I think reasoning people will agree that as an analogy the title is both descriptive and valid.

Magne O. Røn. Sept. 1996.

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