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Biological nonlocality and the mind-brain interaction problem: comments on a new empirical approach

Fred H. Thaheld

arXiv Preprint Archive October 19, 2005 preprint

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper
Keywords Q-bio.nc Quant-ph
Key points Proposes that quantum mechanical phenomena such as entanglement and nonlocality may offer a framework for resolving the mind-brain interaction problem and related issues in consciousness studies.

Abstract

Up to now, we have been faced with an age old fundamental dilemma posed by the mind-brain interaction problem, i.e. how is it that the mind which is subjective and immaterial, can interact with the brain which is objective and material? Analysis of recent experiments appears to indicate that quantum mechanics may have a role to play in the resolution of the mind-brain interaction problem in the form of biological entanglement and nonlocality. This analysis, when coupled with ongoing and proposed experiments, may help us to simultaneously resolve related issues such as whether mental events can initiate neural events, the transference of conscious subjective experience, the measurement problem and the binding problem.

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