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title: Schrödinger Consciousness-Physics Linkage (Mind and Matter, My View of the World)
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## What Schrödinger Saw
Erwin Schrödinger observed that quantum mechanics and thermodynamics produce ordered structures from energy flows. He extended this observation to consciousness. Consciousness appears continuous with physical processes that create order from disorder.

Schrödinger treated mind as fundamental rather than emergent. He drew on Vedanta philosophy to describe a single consciousness underlying apparent multiplicity.

## Core Results
Schrödinger derived that negentropy in living systems maintains order through energy intake. He applied the same logic to mind. Consciousness registers the world as one unified field.

Primary convergence patterns include flow networks that produce memory and structure. The work touches scale invariance in quantum descriptions and bounded order in biological systems.

## Primary Works and Passages
Schrödinger, Erwin. 1944. What is Life? Cambridge University Press. The 1958 appendix Mind and Matter states: "Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."

Schrödinger, Erwin. 1961. Meine Weltansicht. English edition My View of the World, 1964 reprint. Key passage: "Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular."

Schrödinger, Erwin. 1958. Mind and Matter. Cambridge University Press. Chapter on the quantum-mechanical evidence links wave mechanics to perceptual unity.

## Convergence Patterns Touched
The linkage independently derived patterns of order-from-disorder through energy flows. It reached memory and mind as extensions of physical structure. The Mirror Layer appears in the claim that the observer participates in the single consciousness described.

## Distance from Full Synthesis
The work reaches the physics-to-mind segment of the Ladder. It stops short of explicit steps from difference to flow to bounded chaos across all scales. The synthesis adds the full chain through life to mind with explicit receipt and repair mechanisms.

## Honest Limits and Disconfirming Edges
The position rests on interpretive extension of quantum formalism rather than new empirical data. Reductionist accounts treat consciousness as a higher-order description of brain processes without requiring fundamental status. No experimental test distinguishes the oneness claim from standard neuroscience models.

## What the Evidence Actually Shows
Quantum mechanics describes measurement outcomes but does not require consciousness as ontologically prior. Thermodynamic accounts of life in What is Life? remain valid for cellular order. The Vedanta parallel supplies metaphysical framing without additional predictive power.

## Internal Objections
A strong internal tension exists between the Copenhagen interpretation emphasis on observer role and the later insistence on singular mind. The text acknowledges that multiplicity appears real in daily experience yet asserts it as illusion. This leaves the mechanism of apparent separation unspecified.

## Relation to OIP Loop
Object invocation corresponds to measurement events that register structure. The ledger records successive states. Receipt appears as the unified conscious report. Repair occurs through continued energy flow that sustains the ordered state.

The article ends here. Further claims require additional primary passages or experimental results.
