Brilliant.

Just A few days ago came across a brilliant conjecture:

"Is consciousness a quantum phenomenon?"

In Indian Philosophy, there is ancient atheist thought narrated best in Gita Chapter 16 :

असत्यमप्रतिष्ठं ते जगदाहुरनीश्वरम्।

अपरस्परसंभूतं किमन्यत्कामहैतुकम्।। ८

This thought insists that the world has come into existence without being created by (a / the) God. It is the outcome of the (fulfillment of) joy of sexual intercourse only. There is no such any  God (principle) that governs the existence, and the world is its own creation.

This again suggests (as some exponents of

 "नागार्जुन रसायन"  school say and maintain that)

"consciousness" is only the effect / result of chemical elements and their mutual reactions, manifesting / un-manifesting repeatedly and as such there is no entity behind the appearance and disappearance of the world  that governs, maintains and / or regulates this world.

The conjecture / suggestion :

"Is the consciousness a quantum phenomenon?" 

is partially true if by the word consciousness we mean the mind, but this conjecture could be further corrected, if we distinguish between the consciousness and the thought.

We could then perhaps conclude that thought is no doubt a quantum phenomenon.

This could be again understood that there is a thought 'Live' that is constantly in movement in the brain, while there is another 'dead' that is the recorded and is the stored in terms of memory. 

Nevertheless, the 'Live' one is supported by the consciousness where-in this 'Live' thought takes place. As such the same consciousness is then called "Awareness".

In Sanskrit, There are specific words to denote this dual role of consciousness. 

The consciousness that is associated with thought and operates in a mechanical way like an instrument and without attention, is 'mind' / मन, while the one that is aware of the thought is consciousness (चेतना). 

Again, the Awareness, -light that illuminates this चेतना is the called चित् / चैतन्य.

So for the sake of clarity however, we could see the paralles like Awareness for  चित् / चैतन्य, and चेतना for consciousness.

चेतना is therefore the personal aspect, while the चित् / चैतन्य is the impersonal aspect of the same Awareness, the attention, that is also referred to as अवधानं.

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Lack of proper translation of these fundamental Sanskrit terms causes unnecessary confusion and complications.

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