The Lexicon
Time, reality, and cosmos
Quantum
Quantum names the threshold where the observer enters the description of the world. In the quantum-consciousness stream, the act of measurement and the presence of awareness are woven into the fabric of what becomes real, and mind is no longer a stranger to matter. Here the language of physics is taken up as a language of possibility, choice, and participation.
Figures such as Planck, Wheeler, and Wigner pointed toward consciousness as somehow primary, and later teachers like Amit Goswami and Fred Alan Wolf built upon these openings a philosophy of a participatory universe. The seeker meets the quantum not as equation but as invitation, a reminder that the watcher and the watched arise together, and that observation itself may be creative.
In their words
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
Mind is the matrix of all matter.
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena, through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again: it was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom — at a very deep bottom, in most instances — an immaterial source and explanation; that what we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe.