Quantum Evo-Devo Universe II: Materialists’ Metaphoric Phantoms of Matter in Mind

Abstract

In this exploration of Ramachandran’s account of metaphor and language, taking account of the actual evidence provided by evolutionary development biology and quantum physics, we find that his naïve materialist perspective of how brain functioning creates the world of meaning is nothing more than a phantom in his brain. Yet again it will be shown that the primary process of evolution is not that which takes place over time on the material plane but, rather, it is that process of development which cascades from a deep quantum level of intentionality through a sequence of immaterial and subtle “implicate orders” of “unfoldment”, to use the terminology of David Bohm.