Non-observable Influential(s) in the Domain of Consciousness

Abstract

Why consciousness research is not welcome by mainstream science? It is because consciousness cannot be observed or measured. The dictum is, “Measurement is science and science is measurement” (Madam Pierre Curie). Similarly, mind too cannot be observed or measured. So are also “self” and life as life-principle. All of them work from the domain of nature, which is beyond Planck’s scale of measurement. According to the mainstream science, therefore, a couple of “ghosts” dominate the research in consciousness. Consciousness research is meant only for those who love to work with such “ghost”! As long as it does not shed its ghost-like character, consciousness cannot be a part, as non-eliminable factor, of any algorithm of science, or can be considered as an essential factor in descriptive or analytical epidemiology of any scientific pursuit! However, in such assumption we undermine the fact that electron, positron or photon or neutrino in particle physics has also never been observed. However, one has not eliminated their existence as matter/energy. Had not their properties being adequately addressed in science, quantum physics would not have seen the light of the day. Electron, positron or photon or neutrino although cannot be observed, their effects could be observed inside a bubble chamber and also at the classical level of measurement. Photon, to start with, also perhaps had been seemed imaginary, elusive and nonlocal, which later found a place in science! How? This is because photon as a scientific concept marked its place and got “localized” in the conceptual realm of first in one person