Evan Harris Walker

[Mudhammam]

I just picked up a book by him called The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and The Meaning of Life. Guess he was a physicist, seems like in the Bohr tradition. I picked the book up because it looked like something I'd find worthwhile but I have no idea what to expect from it really. First chapter seemed pretty good but I have to wait and see (one chapter is called "Quantum Miracles"). He also says in it "...flaws in the materialistic paradigm of science have appeared in recent years. These flaws have grown to a gaping rent, torn across the whole fabric of the materialistic conception of reality. Strained by the conflicts between Einstein and Bohr over the ultimate meaning of quantum mechanics... subjected to further stress in Bell's theorem, and finally ripped through in recent tests by Aspect in France, the whole cloth of the materialistic picture of reality must now be rejected." I've come across a number of writers now who seem equally dismissive of traditional (read: ancient) concepts of God as they are hostile to materialism/physicalism. Why the hell should quantum mechanics, even if it does imply something like an observer-created Universe to some extent, discredit materialism in any way? Just a thought. Anyone familiar with his work? Have any thoughts/comments about him?