Well summarised, C! I don’t think you have to go right down to the quantum level to see such transformations, though. Tom Campbell has been working to elucidate for some time the idea that much larger material objects can be called into existence just by some mind demanding information of any part of a system where no mind has looked before.
A random draw is then made from the full range of possibilities - each with its own probability already assigned by previous evolutionary patterns - and the ‘lucky’ item is then presented as the reply to the looker’s demand for information.
This then becomes an established precedent (as long as the asker remains alive and compos mentis, and especially when s/he spreads the word and exhibits the evidence, so that other minds accommodate the new fact too. (‘Fact’ is an interesting word here, drawn from the Latin word for ‘to make’, and therefore highly appropriate for this process; the fact is created by the Larger Consciousness System’s rendering engine giving a randomly-drawn answer to the questioner.)
Tom has been suggesting for some time that this process works with macro objects too (as my parapsychologist’s experience with larger-object materialisations in seance sessions seems to confirm), but it’s much easier by means of techniques such as the double-slit experiments to demonstrate the process replicably, to order, at the quantum level.
It seems to me that this sort of deeply perturbing experience is very difficult for people of the modern Western mindset to grasp. It is, of course, initially a very flummoxing phenomenon for all brought up on the currently-orthodox doctrines of reductive, materialist, deterministic science-philosophy. It takes a good dollop of what the veteran parapsychologist Ken Batcheldor used to call “acclimatisation and track record” to be able to believe it securely. Witnessing large objects materialise, as I did in sessions of Ken’s last sitter group, does help with this, though!
The point is: researchers breaking new information-getting ground at the molecular level will be doing much more ex nihilo creation of new molecular forms than perhaps they realise whilst still in thrall to the current orthodoxy. Plenty of these folk will have been calling new molecular patterns into existence, without ever grasping that that’s what they’re doing…
This hypothesis also tallies with Rupert Sheldrake’s ‘Hypothesis of Formative Causation’ and his idea of morphogenetic forms. (qv)
PS: Emoji function’s on the blink again.