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Neural basis of freewill

08/11/2013 07:12
Peter Ulric Tse MIT Press Summary and review of the above book The author argues for a form of conscious agency that plays a role in the brain’s executive functions and in endogneous attention (attention to issues generated within the brain rather than exogenous signals from outside). Executive...

Searle on consciousness and freewill

08/11/2013 07:10
Searle views consciousness as a real biological phenomenon. He notes that it is qualitative, subjective and unified. Every conscious state is qualitative, in that there is something that it is like, or feels like to be in that state. This applies both to sensations and to thoughts. They are...

Mind, Brain & the Quantum

08/11/2013 07:08
Michael Lockwood ISBN 0-631-18031-1 Lockwood claims that there is nothing in physics or chemistry as currently understood to account for the inner or subjective life that we experience. Considerable progress has been made in understanding how the brain processes information, but this has thrown...

How many people in my head

08/11/2013 07:06
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...

Conscious Brain’s EM Field

08/11/2013 07:05
Johnjoe McFadden Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Surrey Synchronous Firing and its Influence on the the Conscious Brain’s Electromagnetic Field Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, No. 4, 2002, pp. 23-50 McFadden starts by stating that synchronous firing in the brain correlates with...

Timescales for consciousness

08/11/2013 07:03
Danko Georgiev, Kanazawa University, Japan In looking at the possible physical underpinnings of neuroscience, the author contrasts what is for consciousness studies the still dominant Newtonian orthodoxy of deterministic causes and effects, with quantum physics, in which there is a multitude of...

Quantum mechanics, consciousness & the self

08/11/2013 07:01
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...

Consciousness in Bohm’s Ontology

08/11/2013 06:59
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 central feature of his version of quantum...

Attention, Intention and Will in Quantum Physics

08/11/2013 06:57
by 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 automaton, while our intuition tells us that we are in charge of our actions. The dominant paradigm in neuroscience...

Quantum Mind Theories: Henry Stapp

08/11/2013 06:56
Henry Stapp believes that classical physics cannot describe the brain, and thinks that a quantum framework is needed for a full explanation. He is sympathetic to the pre-quantum age ideas of William James, who suggested that consciousness was a ‘selecting agent’ present when choices have to be...
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