Mind and Memory

Nick has been working on his ideas involving quantum entanglement, the mechanism of memory and duplication theory for over 35 years, with very interesting parallels to the work of Rupert Sheldrake on morphic resonance. Here he explains his work in the form of a novel where the theorist meets an interested entrepreneur who was prepared to fund a crucial experiment testing his work and the results of which are subsequently published in a prestigious journal. The writing is engaging and clear with many ironic asides and wry observations about life. As the proponent might have expected, the reactions to the successful experimental results are mixed – and the entrepreneur is more interested in technical applications such as the networking of separate minds, while the central character feels that his insight into interconnectedness could change the way we relate to each other. Rupert's alias in the novel is Roland Smethwick, and his work provides an important bridge for the entrepreneur Lucius. The content is inevitably technical, but the dialogues help to probe and elucidate the key ideas.