Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1703-1718

  Mould, Richard A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032268211     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018897710599     Document Type: Article

References (23)

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2. R. Mould, "Relativistic (Hellwig-Kraus) state reduction," in preparation.
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8. An attempt like that of Whitehead to bridge this gap might very well succeed, gaining a validity of its own. However, it cannot at the same time make a rigorous connection with the logic of physics. It cannot be more than an "independent" fragment of knowledge that happens to overlay the Cartesian fissure.
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19. Recall that the CM in Fig. 1 may be found to be a series of localized devices, or it may represent a holistic property of the entire brain.
20. H. Stapp, Ref. 4, p. 152. H. Stapp, J. Mind Behavior 18(2[3]), 184[82] (1997).
21. H. Stapp, "The evolution of consciousness," Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory publication 39241 (1996). E. Squires, Conscious Mind in the Physical World (Adam Hilger, Bristol, 1990), p. 36.
22. H. Stapp, "The evolution of consciousness," Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory publication 39241 (1996). E. Squires, Conscious Mind in the Physical World (Adam Hilger, Bristol, 1990), p. 36.
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