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Attention, Intention, and Will Will in quantum physics

05/12/2013 11:12
Henry Stapp Stapp starts by taking the view that the mind/matter problem represents a conflict between classical physics and our own intuitions. In classical physics we have to be automatons, while our intuition tells us that we are in charge of our actions. The dominant paradigm in neuroscience...

CONSCIOUSNESS, BIOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

05/12/2013 11:07
Consciousness is defined here as our subjective experience of the external world, our physical bodies, our thinking and our emotions. Consciousness is also defined in terms of ‘being like something’ to have experiences. It is like something to be alive, like something to have a body and like...

Why Quantum Theory?

05/12/2013 11:05
The features of quantum theory that make it special and also possibly relevant to consciousness can be summarised as follows: 1.) Quantum theory describes the fundamental level of energy and matter. In contrast to higher levels, the quantum level has aspects, such as mass, charge and spin that are...

Quantum mechanics, consciousness & the self

05/12/2013 09:43
Chris Clarke Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton Chis Clarke’s paper discusses qualia and free will. Clarke defines the irreducible aspect of qualia and also free will as the essence of human consciousness. He thinks that qualia arise from an ‘entanglement’ between a person...

Quantum consciousness

05/12/2013 09:40
Piero Scaruffi Piero Scaruffi takes the view that the more we come to know about the brain, the less easy it becomes to explain consciousness in terms of classical physics. This is the direct opposite of the mainstream view according to which greater knowledge of the brain will inevitably reveal an...

Photons as carriers of consciousness

05/12/2013 09:38
Herms Romijn Netherlands Institute for Brain Research Romijn puts forward the concept that subjectivity or consciousness is coded into the virtual photons that generate electric and magnetic fields. This approach has considerable advantages. Photons intermediating the electromagnetic force are, as...

How many people in my head

05/12/2013 09:37
Jonathan Edwards, Imprint Academic The author has painstakingly researched and developed his own theory of consciousness. He argues firstly, that consciousness has to exist at the level of the individual neuron, and secondly that this neuron-based consciousness is an electromechanical wave of...

Consciousness in Bohm’s Ontology

05/12/2013 09:35
Paavo Pylkkännen University of Skövde, Sweden Bohm’s views on both quantum theory and consciousness changed over the course of his life, making it difficult to specify his exact views. Bohm proposed that a quantum particle was accompanied by a field or quantum potential that Bohm proposed as the...

The Implicate Order

05/12/2013 09:34
David Bohm took the view that quantum theory and relativity contradicted one another, and that this contradiction implied that there existed a more fundamental level in the physical universe. He claimed that both quantum theory and relativity pointed towards this deeper theory. This more...

Nature of Quantum Theory

05/12/2013 09:32
The fundamental particles are bound together by the four forces of nature, which are gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and the weak nuclear forces. The strong nuclear force binds together the particles in the nucleus of the atom, and acts only over the very short range of the nucleus itself....
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