BLUF: what to know, now: early studies with naturally occurring and emergent psychotropic medicine for Veterans, has revealed the most effective and lasting treatments for PTSD, impact the entire body: not just the “brain.” (See: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/21/nx-s1-6009441/psychedelics-brain-inflammation-immune-system).
How did we get this so completely wrong? Historically, Newtonian physics - and to some degree, the Ancient Greek philosophers - shattered what had been the coherent “natural world” into binary opposites. Heidegger continued the error, with his theory of “Dasein,” and Hegel amplified the Greek division of our reality into the physical, corporeal world (what we see, touch, hear, feel) and Plato’s immaterial conceptual world (e.g. spirit, mind, ideas, maths, words, concepts).
In short: while philosophers and theorists do generate ideas which appear “provable” - with our five senses (see David Hume’s famous book “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,”), western culture and philosophy has more or less accepted this basic fracturing of our world and our perceptions into that which is physical - touch, taste, feel - and everything else.
The premise: that reality “is” divided between these two separate “spheres” of human consciousness, remains precisely that: an unproven proposition.
When we, as a culture abolish the artificial distinction between “mind” and “body” - several “mysteries” that Albert Einstein and Hawking expressed great dissatisfaction with: “spooky action at a distance, etc.” - we realize not only that Spinoza and other great thinkers promoted a sort of unnecessary division in human thought: what we see is that “wicked problems” such as Quantum Gravity (see Roger Penrose phenomenal book “the Emperors new mind,”) and the quantum information theory of human consciousness, are - while not immediately solved: at least solvable.
In other words, classic physics and our increasing reliance on classic compute - need not and should not - by this view - be viewed as separate and distinct from Quantum information theory (see James Gleick, “Chaos” and the groundbreaking book “Complexity Theory.”)
Holism - is, it turns out - the key, that unlocks a new - yet already established theory of Quantum Consciousness (see: Wendt - and many thanks to Ms. Carmen Medina and Mr. Josh Kerbel for getting me started down this line of reasoning - many years ago).
What comes next? First, quantum information theorists, and classical physicists - whose experience is far greater than my own, could shed additional light on these issues by addressing whether the scientific and philosophical cultures have given too much weight to dualism, and what the implications to physics and consciousness are, when we remove that unnecessary dualism.
Have a great week.
Yours Truly,
Carson