Aims and intentions as pertaining to conscious agents are defined in a temporal, classical perspective onto the Universe. In this essay we contrast this temporal, classical perspective with a timeless and fundamental quantum reality and argue that these points of view correspond to philosophical notions of "becoming" and "being". These realms can be identified both within physics as well as within psychology. We speculate that the relations between the corresponding realms in both fields are non-trivial and raise some of the most fascinating fundamental questions that could link the understanding of consciousness with fundamental physics.
Heinrich Päs