What the Nobel laureate de Broglie described as the vast and grandiose edifice of classical
physics being shaken to its very foundations was not greeted with fanfare. Only slowly and very
cau-tiously was it integrated into scientific thinking - boldly by those whose careers could
not be jeop-ardized any more cautiously - if at all - by those who still had to make a name
for themselves. The public at large the political and journalistic com-munities prefer to keep
all this at arm´s length - lest there is some success in quantum computing or quantum
satellites because they refuse to acknowledge incredible or inexplicable things even if there
is empirical evidence.The dialogues between Alice and Bob explain this development in the
natural sciences and in ontolo-gy. Significant parts of Newtonian physics had to give way to
the theory of relativity with fundamen-tal consequences.Alice and Bob endeavour to explain
this develop-ment to the readers in these dialogues which do not require any special scientific
knowledge. The names Alice and Bob keep occurring in the litera-ture about quantum physics - as
two elementary particles which are interlinked whatever their place and distance from one
another may be or occa-sionally as two lab students who observe their personal particles.
Within this series of booklets they observe what happens in far more compre-hensive
dimensions.In their first dialogue1 Alice and Bob had estab-lished that there was a sort of
rapprochement be-tween materialistic science and immaterial insights many things cannot be
explained by human rea-soning but exist nevertheless. These include su-perposition where
quantum elements may simul-taneously assume contradictory properties and instantaneous action
at a distance where so-called entangled quanta transmit information without any loss of time
and irrespective of the distance. Other such example are the so-called uncertainty principle
the existence of absolute randomness where cause equals effect and the significance of
consciousness existing at least in anything organ-ic.The second dialogue2 elaborated on
arguments and convictions which cause people to doubt that there is an immaterial world who
therefore rule out any existence of a higher intelligence. Richard Dawkins´ theses were Alice´s
and Bob´s main sub-jects.The third volume3 eventually discussed questions of faith and the
purpose of life. Alice and Bob also included metaphysical and mystic hypotheses in their
dialogues wherever traditional natural sci-ences cannot provide answers.The subject of this
fourth dialogue is the question of consciousness in and perhaps even beyond anything organic
sparked by quantum physics. Although this seems to have great potential in terms of a
beneficial change in being and in the interaction between anything at least organic the
empirical world is largely continuing its slumber. Alice and Bob refute this. They first
discuss the consciousness of plants and animals and its effect on humans up to the cellular
level and eventually the network of consciousness up to global and cosmic dimensions.The
underlying more recent literature begins with the research of the internationally renowned
poly-graph expert Cleve Backster. Polygraphs are appa-ratus for recording physiological
indicators and are also colloquially called lie detectors.4 Alice and Bob refer to globally
available books by Peter Tomp-kins Christopher Bird and Robert B. Stone and the most recent
literature. For the sake of simplicity only the short titles of these sources are cited in the
text.
