Mind-Body Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

The wave-particle duality is a mind-body one. In the real 3D-space there exists only the particle, the wave exists in its consciousness. If there are many particles, their distribution in accordance with the wave function represents a real wave in real space. Many worlds, Schroedinger cat, etc., exist only as mental constructions. The "waves of matter" are non-material. Feynman et al. taught quantum world "is like neither". Alas, they forgot living matter.Comment: 7 pages including 5 figures and 6 references. The shortened version of a report in IV Edition Workshop on Mysteries, Puzzles, and Paradoxes in Quantum Mechanics, 31.08.2001, Gargnano, Ital

Computer simulation of low-energy excitations in amorphous silicon with voids

We use empirical molecular dynamics technique to study the low-energy vibrations in a large 4096 atom model for pure amorphous silicon and a set of models with voids of different size based on it. Numerical vibrational eigenvalues and eigenvectors for our models are obtained by exact diagonalization of their dynamical matrices. Our calculations show that localized low-energy vibrational excitations of rather complex structure are present in amorphous silicon models with voids. According to their spatial localization patterns we make an attempt to classify these excitations as modes associated with the void and "mixed" modes associated with the interaction of the void with strained regions of silicon network.Comment: Was presented at ICAMS18 conference, Snowbird UT, August 1999. Submitted to J. of Non-Cryst. Solid