Editorial: Parapsychology – an “Ultra-Soft Science?” / Parapsychologie – eine „Ultra-Soft Science“?
Journal of anomalistics July 24, 2025 DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2025.005 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Proposes that, within the Generalized Quantum Theory, subjective and objective descriptions of reality are complementary, and advances a "non-commutability conjecture" holding that observables from the subjective and objective subsystems cannot simultaneously yield specific eigenvalues, because measurement in one subsystem influences the other. The investigation applies this framework to color assessment, but the abstract is truncated before any results are given. |
Abstract
Dechamps PDF full text Abstract In the Generalized Quantum Theory (GQT), a theory designed to describe psychophysical phenomena, the subjective and objective aspects of reality are considered to be complementary. The research presented here focused on investigating such a macroscopic complementarity between subjective and objective reality descriptions within the context of color assessment. In particular, the non-commutability conjecture of the GQT posits that two observables derived from the subjective and objective subsystems do not simultaneously provide specific eigenvalues. Rather, the act of measurement within one subsystem, e. g.