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Quantum Closures and Disclosures

Gordon G. Globus

Advances in Consciousness Research April 28, 2003 DOI: 10.1075/aicr.50 (opens in new tab)

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Key points Argues that quantum brain dynamics and continental postphenomenology converge on an ontology of non-Cartesian dual modes, where world disclosure and presencing arise from a "conjugate" match in the "between." Proposes this synthesis as fruitful for philosophy, brain science, mathematics, and psychiatry.

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Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Underlying both developments is a new ontology of nonCartesian dual modes whose rich provenance is their "between." World is disclosed in the lumen naturale of dual modes belonging-together in their between; all presencing is a function of a "~conjugate" form of match in the between. This surprising rapprochement between a powerful tradition within continental philosophy and the 20th-century quantum revolution in science is fruitfully applied to crucial issues in philosophy, brain science, mathematics and psychiatry. Related Titles: Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An introduction, edited by Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue (1995), and My Double Unveiled: The dissipative quantum model of the brain, by Giuseppe Vitiello (2001)

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