Synesthesia is a phenomenon in which additional perceptual experiences are elicited by sensory stimuli or cognitive concepts. Synesthetes possess a unique type of phenomenal experiences not directly triggered by sensory stimulation. Therefore, for better understanding of consciousness it is relevant to identify the mental and physiological processes that subserve synesthetic experience. In the...
Abstract: It has been suggested that consciousness plays an important role in quantum mechanics as it is necessary for the collapse of wave function during the measurement. Here we formulated several predictions that follow from this hypothetical relationship and that can be empirically tested. Experimental results that are already available suggest falsification of these predictions. Thus, the...
This work was supported by a grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; number NI 708/2-1), the Hertie Foundation, Max-Planck Geselschaft, and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Henri Matisse, a famous French artist said the following about the way he worked: “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” Little has he known that, having a human brain, he could...