5 papers in the library · publishing 2002-2017
CRC Press eBooks December 6, 2017 Danko Dimchev Georgiev
This chapter shows that classically there is no satisfactory physical mechanism that sets the boundary of the mind. It also shows that functional and reductive approaches have opposing implications for the causal potency of conscious experiences and the ability of human consciousness to evolve. Historically, the compatibility between free will and determinism has been the subject of a prolonged...
CRC Press eBooks December 6, 2017 Danko Dimchev Georgiev
This chapter introduces seven long-standing problems of consciousness that seriously clash with the principles of classical physics and force some philosophers to defend flawed theories of consciousness that contradict our own introspective testimony. The problems are the physical boundary problem, the binding problem, the causal potency problem, the free will problem, the inner privacy...
CRC Press eBooks December 6, 2017 Danko Dimchev Georgiev
This chapter discusses several previously published results on possible applications of quantum information theory to neuroscience and will present a number of open questions that deserve further study. Applying the quantum information theory of consciousness to modeling the electric processes that occur in neuronal networks in the brain is an open scientific problem that deserves further...
CRC Press eBooks December 6, 2017 Danko Dimchev Georgiev
Quantum physics provides a good candidate for a mathematical entity, namely, the quantum state vector in the Hilbert space. The causal potency problem originates from determinism: In classical physical theories there are fundamental constituents entering in the mathematical description of the physical laws that govern deterministically the dynamics of physical systems. Since only these...
arXiv Preprint Archive October 13, 2002 Danko Dimchev Georgiev preprint
Epiphenomenalism is shown to be absurd because the development of consciousness must be explainable through natural selection. A detailed neuromolecular basis of the neuromediator release is given and it is stressed on the possible key point where the quantum mind could act, namely presynaptic scaffold protein dynamics and detachment of the calcium sensor v-SNARE synaptotagmin-1. The...