Operative Closure and Orchestrated Collapse: What the Quantum Physics of Consciousness Cannot Derive
Abstract
Recent work by Michael Wiest on Orch OR theory (Penrose/Hameroff) revives, on new empirical grounds, the hypothesis of a quantum substrate for consciousness, and proposes to solve the problem of the separation of subjects through a mechanism of amplitude cancellation specific to each conscious body. This article establishes that this mechanism presupposes the biological boundary it is supposed to explain -a petitio principii that Wiest himself identifies without resolving, and that his own treatment of split-brain patients renders untenable, and which recourse to the Markov blanket of active inference does not repair. This mainly negative result is contrasted with a framework distinguishing two principles -actualization and individuation, Àṣẹ and Orí in the vocabulary of Ifá philosophy -derivable from the structure of the problem itself prior to any terminological borrowing. This distinction accounts by construction for graded clinical states, such as depersonalization, which Wiest's one-principle model cannot by construction explain, and opens, without imposing it, a reading of Orch OR data compatible with an interface model rather than with a local production of consciousness.
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