Getting in a Spin Over the Therapeutic Process: QBism and a Gyroscopic Model of the Vital Force

Abstract

Background: In the previous paper, a relatively new interpretation of quantum theory called QBism, was introduced as an alternative quantum metaphor for the therapeutic process (TP). This is because previous metaphors have been based on conventional quantum theory and its notion that quantum states belong to a strongly objective shared reality. QBism suggests otherwise, quantum states being merely subjective degrees of belief made by the individual agents assigning those states. It suggests QBism’s explicit subjectivity is more in line with practitioners’ (Pr) and patient’s (Px) implicitly subjective experience of the TP. Objective: To investigate the impact on this suggestion of a previously developed gyroscopic model of the Vital Force, Vf. Method: Based on an original starting wavefunction for the Vf, a sequence of equations and transformations between them are generated and then interpreted as the Vf interacting with and moving into and out of dis-ease (Dx) states, in essence, a physics of health. Results/Discussion & Conclusion: These equations and their transformations manage to predict (a) homeopathic aggravation from the curative remedy (Rx), and (b) the logic behind Hahnemann’s development of the LM potencies. Further, displaying these equations and their interactions pictorially and geometrically (as a stellated octahedron) suggests that the recently developed gyroscopic model for the Vf supports a metaphor for the therapeutic process (based on the subjectivity explicit in QBism), that is indeed viable and potentially superior to previous metaphors based on the strong objectivity of conventional quantum theory (CQT).