For those of you who may be questioning the relevance of consciousness to physics at this time, and may be unfamiliar with the I offer the site below. More deeply yet, the matter of unification, so vital to an understanding of gravitation, is well know to be inextricably entwined with the seeming paradox offered by consciousness itself. As G.F.Chew, author of "Bootstrap: A Scientific Idea?" remarked on what the issue of 'bootstrapping' space-time (to enlarge the hadron bootstrap) and the inclusion of human consciousness in a role well beyond the conventional framework of science:
"Such a future step would be immensely more profound than anything comprising the hadron bootstrap; we would be obliged to confront the elusive concept of observation and, possibly, even that of consciousness. Our current struggle with the hadron bootstrap may thus be only a foretaste of acompletely new form of human intellecctual endeavor, one that will not only lie outside of physics but will not even be describable as 'scientific'."
I disagree with this conclusion myself, and foresee only a dramatic expansion of physics as a result. I will of course, attempt to offer an explanation shortly.
www.princeton.edu/~pear/
<u>Engineering and Consciousness</u>
"The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program was established at Princeton University in 1979 by Robert G. Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice. Since that time, an interdisciplinary staff of engineers, physicists, psychologists, and humanists has been conducting a comprehensive agenda of experiments and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality. "
