Revista Eletrônica Informação e Cognição (Cessada)
December 31, 1969
Rüdiger Vaas
8 citations
The existence of quantum correlates of consciousness (QCC) is doubtful from a scientific perspective. But even if their existence were verified, philosophical problems would remain. On the other hand, there could be more to QCC than meets the sceptic's eye: • QCC might be useful or even necessary for a better understanding of conscious experience or quantum physics or both. The main reasons for...
Revista Eletrônica Informação e Cognição (Cessada)
December 31, 1969
Marcelo S. Mercante
4 citations
The purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of spontaneous mental imagery that people experienced after ritualistically ingesting Ayahuasca. The combination of ingestion of Daime and the participation in a ceremony appear to reliably promote the occurrence of spontaneous mental imageries, referred as mirações, which were considered as a process of perception, the moment when...
Revista Eletrônica Informação e Cognição (Cessada)
December 31, 1969
Luiz Carlos Serramo Lopez
3 citations
In this paper I describe our subjective consciousness from a biological perspective. From this perspective, I suggest that we can describe the phenomenal consciousness as an analog of a “virtual reality” system created by means of biological evolution. This biological virtual system appears to have evolved “in order to” integrate our multimodal afferent stimulus and to generate a self centered...
Revista Eletrônica Informação e Cognição (Cessada)
December 31, 1969
Sérgio Basbaum Roclaw
1 citation
I suggest that consciousness may be culturally shaped, and thus it may be a romanticism of science to attempt explaining conscious experiences as if there could be one and only general abstraction of the whole human living conscious experience ? in spite of history, culture, language, etc. My starting point is perception ? its relation to conscious experience and, most of all, the meaning with...
Revista Eletrônica Informação e Cognição (Cessada)
December 31, 1969
Osvaldo Pessoa Júnior
When asking whether consciousness is an “essentially quantum effect”, one must first lay down criteria for considering an effect quantum mechanical. After a brief survey of the interpretations of quantum theory, three such sufficient criteria are proposed and examined: wave-particle duality (or collapse), entanglement (“non-locality”), and quantum condensation (involving “identical” particles)....