Quantum physics and consciousness: The quest for a common conceptual foundation

Mind and Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-79

  Filk, Thomas ^a,b   von Müller, Albrecht ^a  

^a Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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