Paavo T. I. Pylkkänen3-540-23891-3, 978-3-540-23891-1
Quantum theory predicts experimental results brilliantly but simultaneously raises difficult conceptual issues. Paradoxes such as SchrГ¶dinger’s cat, the EPR paradox, or the nonlocality demanded by Bell’s inequalities have hampered philosophers in their attempts to include quantum theory when discussing the relation between mind and matter. PylkkГ¤nen proposes that Bohm’s alternative interpretation of quantum theory resolves these paradoxes and thus enables one to base new philosophical theories upon quantum physics. He uses Bohm’s concepts of ”implicate order”, ”active information” and ”soma-significance” as tools to tackle several well-known problems in the philosophy of mind. These include mental causation, the hard problem of consciousness, time consciousness, and virtual reality. PylkkГ¤nen’s eclectic approach combines new physics-based insights with those of analytical philosophy, phenomenology, cognitive science and neuroscience and he proposes a view in which the mechanistic framework of classical physics and neuroscience is complemented by a more holistic underlying framework in which conscious experience finds its place more naturally. |
Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Preface……Page 7
Contents……Page 17
1 Introduction……Page 20
2 The Architecture of Matter……Page 61
3 The Architecture of Consciousness……Page 111
4 Active Information……Page 174
5 Time Consciousness……Page 223
6 Movement, Causation, and Consciousness……Page 246
Bibliography……Page 264
Index……Page 277 |
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