Of the three faculties of subjectivity, the empirical case for quantum cognition is the strongest. In the past decade a rapidly growing body of scholarship has emerged at the intersection of mathematical psychology and physics that not only models cognition in explicitly quantum terms, but has rigorously tested these models as well. While it remains to be seen how mainstream psychologists will...
The thrust of the last two chapters was ever more micro, beginning with quantum brains and then projecting the essence of their subjectivity all the way down to the sub-atomic level. While that might seem to have taken us very far from the world of social science, I am working toward just the opposite conclusion: that social life is not essentially different from that of sub-atomic particles....
Introduction We saw in Part I that in addition to explaining consciousness there is another hard problem for the modern scientific worldview – understanding what quantum physics is telling us about reality. And if anything this one is harder. In philosophy of mind there is at least consensus enough for an orthodox position to exist (materialism), and a widespread expectation that it will be...
The dominant model of man in naturalistic social science today is materialist, ontologically deterministic, and mechanistic. At least it is no longer behaviorist too; although behavioralism remains strong, almost all social scientists agree that human behavior is affected by unobservable intentional states that must be dealt with as best we can. Yet while it is recognized that people have...