Mindful universe : quantum mechanics and the participating observer
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Mindful universe : quantum mechanics and the participating observer
（The frontiers collection）
Springer, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-194) and index
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Description
The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was essentially mindless: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with conscious experiences entering only passively. In the last century these classical concepts were found inadequate. In the new quantum mechanics theory, conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by physically described aspects alone.
Table of Contents
Science and Human Values.- Human Knowledge as the Foundation Science.- Actions, Knowledge, and Information.- Nerve Terminals and the Need to Use Quantum Theory.- Templates for Action.- The Physical Effectiveness of Conscious Will.- Support from Contemporary Psychology.- Application to Neuropsychology.- Roger Penrose's Theory and Quantum Decoherence.- Faster-Than-Light Connections.- Whiteheadian Quantum Ontology.- An Interview.- Consciousness and the Anthropic Questions.- Impact of Quantum Mechanics on Human Values.- Conclusions.- Appendices.- Non-orthodox Versions of Quantum Theory and the Need for von Neumann's Process.- The Basis Problem in Many- Worlds Theories.- Despised Dualism.- Recent Views in Neuroscience and Philosophy.- Gazzaniga's "The Ethical Brain".- Von Neumann: Knowledge, Information, and Entropy.- Wigner's Friend and Consciousness in Quantum Physics.- Orthodox Interpretation and the Mind-Brain Connection.- Einstein Locality and Spooky Action at a Distance.- Locality in Physics.- Nonlocality in Quantum Physics.
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