TT Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000290090021-0 15 3. PARAPSYCHOLOGY, QUANTUM LOGIC AND INFORMATION THEORY C.T.K. Chari, Madras Christian College, Madras, India ( Professor Chari did not attend the conference. His paper was read by Harold Puthoff. ) SUMMARY: In addition to three types of conventional biological information; 1.) ge= netic, 2.) environmentally conditioned, and 3.) symbolic and recorded communi- cation; the author postulates a 4th type of information network, the psi-net- work, The Logie of this network would be non-Boolean. Understanding the psi network may require use of recently proposed concepts in the quantum theory of measurement and in information theory. CRITIQUE: A paper written in the context of philosophy and formal logic without, however, a clear internal organization, It provides no theory clear enough for experimental verification or further development, The principal value of the paper is its numerous citations of recent work in the philosophy of quan- tum mechanics and in information theory, Indeed this paper reads like an over- abbreviated review article. Since C,T.K. Chari did not attend the conference he read advanced drafts of somé of the presented papers and submitted a written version of his reac- tions to them entitied: An Indien Parapsychologist's Reactions to the Geneva Conference on "Quantum Physics and Parapsychology" Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090021-0
Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000290090021-0 16 Ze QUANTUM PARADOXES AND ARISTOTLE'S TWOFOLD INFORMATION CONCEPT 0. Costa de Beauregard, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France SUMMARY: The problems of relativity, time reversibility, and entropy increase lead to consideration of measurement processes in the context of information theory. A measurement process by which information is acquired produces an increase in entropy, since negative entropy must be supplied equal to or greater than the information acquired. Such a process is a Learning ora perceptual process, An entropy increasing process is dissipative, and’ dissipation is a requirement of macroscopic eausality in the normal sense of past determining the future or, equivalently, retarded waves. The author proposes the reverse process ( an ordering process) whereby pre-existing information is converted into order, a process which oceurs whenever any conceptual scheme is actualized to produce macroscopic order. Ordering decreases entropy. An entropy decreasing process: is the reverse of dissipative and implies macroscopic acausality (or finality) in the sense of the future situation determining the past, or advanced waves. Both processes, which were foreshadowed in Aristotle's thinking, can be represented by the two chains of equivalence: Measurement—» Information Information—» Ordering Entropy Increase Entropy Decrease Dissipation Anti-Dissipation Causality Finality Retarded Wave Advanced Waves: Past to Future Future to Past Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090021-0
Approved For Releas¢ 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090021-0 iv Although de facto the first colwm predominates in natural macroscopic processes, the inverse process of the second column ise theoretical possibility and indeed mst also occur, At the microscopic level of elementary quantum processes one might expect a symmetry between the two columns, similar to the other symmetries of microscopic physics ( time reversal, charge conjugation, etc.). Since probability plays a central role in quantum theory, the two types of process depending respectively on increasing and decreasing order, have tight consequences. Some of these are PK by use of coreious information to control a quantum process, and telepathy by the linked outcome of quantum measuring: processes. Basically these considerations are summarized in the statement that the wave function of quantum mechanics propagates probabilities. It is not a physical field which propagates, but rather an information field. CRITIQUE: ‘Though scarcely providing an explicit theory, this paper hews elosely to established physical.understanding, It provides a theoretical framework which not only may connect observed’ ESP effects with quantum mechanics, but which also places ESP in the very general context. of information theory. Whatever else 1t may be or may involve, ESF does deal with information, In addition the paper points up how information theory may underlie some very deep physical principles. This is a provocative paper, perhaps the most profound physical discussion at the conference. It may perhaps formilate a general foundation upon which could be built an Antelligible physical theory of ESP, Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090021-0