Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: From quantum mechanics to mystery of consciousness -- 1.1 Questions to be answered -- 1.2 Two spheres of knowledge -- 1.3 Super-intuition: Where do right solutions come from? -- 1.3.1 Super-intuition in life and in science -- 1.3.2 Parallel alternatives (parallel worlds): what does this mean -- 1.3.3 Consciousness and quantum mechanics -- 1.4 Principle of life is not derived from but is added to science -- 1.5 Graphic presentation of the relation between the two spheres -- 1.6 Toward theory of consciousness -- 1.6.1 Mystical features of consciousness are compatible with quantum mechanics -- 1.6.2 Quantum mechanics is incomplete without consciousness -- 1.6.2.1 Paradox of Schrodinger's cat -- 1.6.2.2 Quantum reality -- 1.6.2.3 Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics includes consciousness -- 1.6.3 Theory of consciousness from quantum mechanics -- PART 1 Miracles produced by consciousness (psychicexperience) -- Chapter 2 Miracles and mysticism in spiritual experience of mankind -- 2.1 Historical background -- 2.1.1 Religion -- 2.1.2 Oriental philosophies -- 2.1.3 Esoterica -- 2.2 Psychic and parapsychology -- 2.2.1 Edgar Cayce -- 2.2.1.1 General data -- 2.2.1.2 Details of the practice -- 2.2.2 Health by the autosuggestion -- 2.2.3 Telepathy, clairvoyance etc. -- 2.3 Miracles in science: Scientific insights -- PART 2 Parallel worlds and consciousness -- Chapter 3 Quantum reality as parallel classical worlds (for physicists) -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Consciousness and quantum mechanics: From Pauli and Jung to contemporary authors -- 3.2 An observer's consciousness and quantum paradoxes -- 3.2.1 Special features of quantum measurements -- 3.2.2 Paradoxicality of quantum mechanics -- 3.2.3 Wigner friend paradox -- 3.2.3.1 Entanglement.

3.2.3.2 Final conclusions -- 3.3 Reduction and decoherence in a measurement -- 3.3.1 Reduction -- 3.3.2 Entanglement -- 3.3.3 Decoherence -- 3.4 Quantum correlations and quantum reality -- 3.4.1 EPR effect and Bell's inequalities -- 3.4.2 Quantum games -- 3.4.3 Quantum reality from various viewpoints -- 3.5 Measurement problem: stages of investigation -- 3.5.1 Formulation of the problem -- 3.5.2 Enthusiasm and optimism -- 3.5.3 Marginalization -- 3.5.4 Everett's "Many-Worlds" interpretation -- 3.6 "Many-Worlds" interpretation and separation of alternatives -- 3.6.1 Relative states -- 3.6.2 Separation of the alternatives by consciousness -- 3.6.3 Discussion of the Everett's concept -- 3.7 Conclusion: Subjective aspect in quantum mechanics -- Chapter 4 Consciousness in parallel worlds -- 4.1 Parallel worlds (classical alternatives) as quantum reality -- 4.2 Consciousness: classical vision of quantum reality -- 4.2.1 Consciousness as separation of classical alternatives -- 4.2.2 Consciousness is common for physics and psychology -- 4.3 At the edge of consciousness -- 4.3.1 EEC: Consciousness is the separation of alternatives -- 4.3.1.1 Why the alternatives are classical -- 4.3.1.2 Accessibility to other realities -- 4.3.1.3 The role of unconscious -- 4.3.1.4 Super-consciousness: Travel in time -- 4.3.2 Subjective probabilities and probabilistic miracles -- 4.3.2.1 Objective and subjective probabilities -- 4.3.2.2 Subjective probabilities in terms of parallel worlds -- 4.3.2.3 Probabilistic miracles -- 4.3.3 More precise formulations and examples -- 4.3.4 Relation to religion and oriental philosophies -- 4.4 The need for the new methodology -- 4.4.1 Inclusion of subjective -- 4.4.2 Only subjective is important -- 4.5 Quantum correlations and telepathy in EEC -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 4.6.1 The problem of the century.

4.6.2 Solution through the Everett's concept -- 4.6.3 Main points of EEC -- Chapter 5 Consciousness and life in parallel worlds: Details for physicists -- 5.1 Representation of alternative scenarios by path corridors -- 5.1.1 Continuous measurements and corridors of paths -- 5.1.2 Evolution of a continuously measured system -- 5.2 Why alternatives are classical: prerequisite to the existence of life -- 5.2.1 Classicality of alternatives corresponds to the experience -- 5.2.2 Classicality of the alternatives from EEC -- 5.2.3 Modelling of "quantum concept of life" on quantum computers -- Chapter 6 "Three great problems in physics" according to Vitaly Ginzburg -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 'Ginzburg's problems' -- 6.3 Relations among "the three great problems" -- 6.4 Copenhagen interpretation: state reduction -- 6.5 Measurement as an interaction: entanglement and decoherence -- 6.6 Everett's ('many-worlds') interpretation: no reduction -- 6.7 Extended Everett Concept (EEC): defnition of consciousness -- 6.7.1 Identity of consciousness and alternative separation -- 6.7.2 Consequences of the identification -- 6.8 Extended Everett Concept (EEC): relations between "three problems" -- 6.9 Conclusion -- PART 3 Parallel Scenarios and Sphere of Life -- Chapter 7 Evolution of life: goal instead of cause (for physicists) -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.1.1 Main ideas of Extended Everett's Concept -- 7.1.2 Scenarios favorable for life -- 7.2 Life as the postcorrection in the criterion of survival -- 7.2.1 Notion of postcorrection -- 7.2.2 Simplest example of postcorrection -- 7.2.3 Interpretation in terms of "life sphere" -- 7.2.4 Postcorrection in terms of EEC -- 7.2.5 Other issues to be accounted -- 7.3 Collective strategy of survival -- 7.4 Various criteria for postcorrection -- 7.4.1 Postcorrection providing super-intuition -- 7.5 Conclusion.

Chapter 8 Life in terms of alternative scenarios instead of parallel worlds -- 8.1 Alternative worlds and alternative scenarios -- 8.2 Evolution governed by goals -- 8.3 "Principle of life" -- 8.4 Life principle as the generalization of the antropic principle -- 8.4.1 Providence, karma, God -- 8.4.2 The answers of super-consciousness depend on the conscious life criteria -- PART 4 Speculations or further development of the concept -- Chapter 9 Escaping global crisis and life after death -- 9.1 Global crisis and eluding it (hell and paradise) -- 9.1.1 The global crisis: technical aspect -- 9.1.2 Corrupted consciousness as an origin of the crisis -- 9.1.3 Change of consciousness for preventing the catastrophe -- 9.1.4 Resolution of the crisis: paradise and hell at Earth -- 9.1.5 Life sphere: making the concept more precise -- 9.1.6 The Fall and the tree of knowledge -- 9.2 Soul and life after death of body -- 9.2.1 Soul before and after death of the body -- 9.2.1.1 Soul after death: judging the life -- 9.2.2 Estimate of life criteria and judgment on the spent life -- 9.2.3 Estimate of life criteria - more details -- 9.3 Karma and reincarnations -- PART 5 Summing up the results -- Chapter 10 Main points of the Quantum Concept of Life (QCL) -- 10.1 Logical scheme of the quantum concept of life -- 10.1.1 Quantum reality -- 10.1.2 Quantum Concept of Consciousness (QCC) -- 10.1.3 Quantum Concept of Life (QCL) -- 10.1.4 Quantum Concept of Life (QCL) in terms of scenarios (sphere of life and the principle of life) -- 10.1.5 The extended scientific methodology must include the subjective -- 10.2 Consequences -- 10.2.1 Super-intuition -- 10.2.1.1 Clairvoyance and soothsaying -- 10.2.1.2 Scientific insights -- 10.2.1.3 Efficient method for solving problems -- 10.2.1.4 Chess -- 10.2.1.5 Is artificial intellect feasible?.

10.2.1.6 "Miracle of life" as an analogue of the super-intuition -- 10.2.2 Miracles -- 10.2.2.1 Miracles and science -- 10.2.2.2 Biblical miracles -- 10.2.2.3 Good weather etc. -- 10.3 Discussion -- 10.3.1 Consciousness and the laws of natural sciences -- 10.3.2 Quantum computer: model for consciousness (for physicists) -- Chapter 11 Conclusion: Science, philosophy and religion meet together in theory of consciousness -- 11.1 Why QCC is necessary, or how to learn to believe? -- 11.2 Science and mystics -- 11.2.1 Why physicists do not believe in the miracles -- 11.2.2 'Soft' embedding of life into the objective world -- 11.2.3 Quantum paradoxes are compensated by mystical features of consciousness -- 11.2.4 Buddhism -- 11.3 Science and religion are compatible -- 11.3.1 Basic aspects of various confessions -- 11.3.2 Science and religion need each other -- 11.4 Philosophical viewpoint -- 11.4.1 Wigner -- 11.4.2 Objective and subjective -- 11.4.3 Material and ideal -- 11.5 From quantum mechanics to consciousness -- 11.5.1 Pauli and Jung -- 11.5.2 Penrose -- 11.5.3 Why Quantum Concept of Consciousness was successful -- 11.6 Second Quantum Revolution -- Bibliography -- Index.