Passionate attention and the psychophysiology of entrepreneurial intuition: a quantum-holographic theory Online publication date: Wed, 03-Mar-2010
by Raymond Trevor Bradley
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB), Vol. 9, No. 3, 2010
Abstract: Successful entrepreneurs are passionate, innovative risk assessors whose actions are informed by accurate intuitions about future business opportunities. Often this intuitive foreknowledge involves perception of implicit information about nonlocal objects and/or events by the body's psychophysiological systems. A large body of experimental evidence has documented intuitive foreknowledge as a scientific fact, and recent studies using electrophysiological measures of autonomic nervous system activity have shown that such nonlocal intuition is related to the degree of emotional significance of the future event. A recent pilot study has found compelling evidence of intuitive foreknowledge in repeat entrepreneurs. Drawing on these findings and the principles of quantum holography, I develop a theory of nonlocal intuition. The theory explains how passionate attention directed to the object of interest (such as a potential future business opportunity) attunes the body's psychophysiological systems to a domain of quantum-holographic information, which contains implicit information about the object's future. The body's perception of this information is experienced by the entrepreneur as an intuition.
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