creators_name: Hu, Huping creators_name: Wu, Maoxin type: preprint datestamp: 2005-10-20 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:12 metadata_visibility: show title: Thinking Outside the Box: The Essence and Implications of Quantum Entanglement subjects: bio-phys subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public keywords: spin, mind pixel, quantum entanglement, interconnectedness, inseparableness abstract: Many experiments have shown that quantum entanglement is physically real. In this paper, we will discuss its ontological origin, implications and applications by thinking outside the standard interpretations of quantum mechanics. We argue that quantum entanglement originates from the primordial spin processes in non-spatial and non-temporal pre-spacetime, implies genuine interconnectedness and inseparableness of once interacting quantum entities, plays vital roles in biology and consciousness and, once better understood and harnessed, has far-reaching consequences and applications in many fields such as medicine and neuroscience. We further argue that quantum computation power also originates from the primordial spin processes in pre-spacetime. Finally, we discuss the roles of quantum entanglement in spin-mediated consciousness theory. date: 2005-10 date_type: published refereed: FALSE referencetext: Aerts, D. & Aerts, S. Towards a general operational and realistic framework for quantum mechanics and relativity theory. In Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics? ed. A. C. Elitzur et al. (Berlin: Springer, 2004). Arnesen, M. C., Bose, S. & Vedral, V. Natural thermal and magnetic entanglement in the 1D Heisenberg model. 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