NeuroQuantology
February 3, 2009
Ravi Prakash, Michele Caponigro
5 citations
Subjectivity or the problem of ‘qualia’ tends to make the accessibility and comprehension of psychological events intangible especially for scientific exploration. The issue becomes even more complicated but interesting when one turns towards mystical experiences. Such experiences are different from other psychological phenomena in the sense that they don’t occur to every one, so are difficult...
NeuroQuantology
June 4, 2008
Elio Conte
33 citations
We give here a review of the experiments that we performed in the last few years to conclude that mentals states follow quantum mechanics. As theoretical basis we give explanation of the contextual dependence of probabilities in the theoretical basis that was introduced by A. Khrennikov. In this case the classical formula of total probability does not hold true in quantum systems unless an...
NeuroQuantology
June 4, 2008
C. U. M. Smith
2 citations
The introduction situates the ‘hard problem’ in its historical context and argues that the problem has two sides: the output side (the Kant-Eccles problem of the freedom of the Will) and the input side (the problem of qualia). The output side ultimately reduces to whether quantum mechanics can affect the operation of synapses. A discussion of the detailed molecular biology of synaptic...
NeuroQuantology
February 22, 2008
Michel Bitbol
42 citations
Abstract: Six arguments against the view that conscious experience derives from a material basis are reviewed. These arguments arise from epistemology, phenomenology, neuropsychology, and philosophy of quantum mechanics. It turns out that any attempt at proving that conscious experience is ontologically secondary to material objects both fails and brings out its methodological and existential...
NeuroQuantology
September 12, 2007
Tim Roberts
The problem of subjective experience remains a major topic of debate amongst researchers in both the philosophy of mind and the foundations of artificial intelligence. David Chalmers has referred to this as The Hard Problem of Consciousness, since subjective experience appears to resist most attempts at a functional description. Theories involving 60Hz oscillations in the cerebral cortex, Bose...
NeuroQuantology
September 11, 2007
Stuart R. Hameroff
48 citations
Orch OR (“Orchestrated Objective Reduction”) is a theory of consciousness put forth in the mid-1990s by British physicist Sir Roger Penrose and American anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff. Whereas most theories assume consciousness emerges from complex computation at the level of synapses among brain neurons, Orch OR involves a specific form of quantum computation which underlies these neuronal...
NeuroQuantology
September 10, 2007
Jon R. Courtney
1 citation
This article examines the status of some explanations of consciousness by comparing and evaluating viewpoints of psychology (e.g. cognition) and physics (e.g. quantum mechanics). It is suggested that the two approaches possess similarities on both a methodological and theoretical level and should benefit from mutual consideration. Attempts to extend and connect explanations of conscious...
NeuroQuantology
September 5, 2007
Greg P. Hodes
David Chalmers argues that consciousness -authentic, first-person, conscious consciousness -cannot be reduced to brain events or to any physical event, and that efforts to find a workable mind-body identity theory are, therefore, doomed in principle. But for Chalmers and non-reductionist in general consciousness consists exclusively, or at least paradigmatically, of phenomenal or...
NeuroQuantology
September 4, 2007
Huping Hu, Maoxin Wu
49 citations
We have recently theorized that consciousness is intrinsically connected to quantum mechanical spin since said spin is embedded in the microscopic structure of spacetime and is more fundamental than spacetime itself, that is, spin is the “mind-pixel.” Applying these ideas to the particular structures and dynamics of the brain, we have developed a qualitative model of quantum consciousness. In...
NeuroQuantology
September 4, 2007
George A. Mashour
17 citations
The cognitive binding problem is a central question in the study of consciousness: how does the brain synthesize its modal and submodal processing systems to generate a unity of conscious experience? This essay considers several solutions to the binding problem, as well as their shortcomings. In particular, the current theory of neural synchronization as the basis for binding and consciousness...
NeuroQuantology
September 3, 2007
Stuart R. Hameroff, Roger Penrose
202 citations
What is consciousness? Some philosophers have contended that qualia, or an experiential medium from which consciousness is derived, exists as a fundamental component of reality. Whitehead, for example, described the universe as being comprised of occasions of To examine this possibility scientifically, the very nature of physical reality must be re-examined. We must come to terms with the...