Quantum Mechanics and Perceptive Processes: a reply to Elio Conte
arXiv Preprint Archive November 8, 2014 preprint
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Quant-ph |
| Key points | Argues that Conte's criticisms miss the crucial elements of the authors' proposal and that his ideas on quantum superpositions of consciousness are not cogent. |
Abstract
Recently, Elio Conte has commented a paper by the present author devoted to analyze the possibility of checking experimentally whether the perceptual process can lead to the collapse of the wavefunction. Here we answer to the comments by Conte and we show that he has missed to grasp the crucial elements of our proposal. Morever, we discuss some ideas put forward by Conte concerning the occurrence of quantum superpositions of different states of consciousness and we show that they are rather vague and not cogent.