Quantum Physics Encounters Consciousness: A Subtle Mechanism for Faster-Than-Light Communication

It has been often claimed that our most fundamental physical theories, special relativity and quantum mechanics, prohibit the existence of faster-than-light communication. However, this claim is overstated. One obvious reason is that these theories are incomplete descriptions of the physical world, and in particular, they seem incompatible with each other. Can we communicate faster than the speed of light or even instantaneously? This is a deep question, and the final answer is still hiding in the dark.

This book will introduce an intriguing new idea, according to which the combination of quantum physics and consciousness may permit the existence of faster-than-light communication. The idea touches the very foundation of modern physics and the nature of consciousness, and if true, it will have far-reaching implications on relativity, quantum theory, the science of consciousness, psi research, and certainly, the communication technology itself.

Book & Thoughts Reviews:

What is original is the speculation that a conscious being might be able to make measurements on quantum states that no material device can match and that such measurements would permit FTL (Faster-than-light) signaling between distant observers.
---- Reviewer of Foundations of Physics

I agree with you that, if you modify quantum mechanics in such a way that an NSDD becomes possible and if you leave everything else the same, there might be a possibility for superluminal communication.
---- Philippe Eberhard, theoretical physicist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California

This conclusion (i.e. faster-than-light communication is possible using a conscious agent) is based on arguments that cover quantum physics, cosmology, metaphysics, biology, the nature of consciousness... An attempt at a world view of such broad scope is certainly commendable.
---- Reviewer of Foundations of Physics