Neuroscience and Quantum Theory
Ted Honderich
Mind and Brain April 26, 1990 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198242826.003.0006 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that neurons are the cells most immediately bound up with consciousness and its antecedents and consequences, and that despite the availability of microscopic and other scientific methods for studying them, questions about consequences remain open, falling into three categories of theories: determinist, near-determinist, and indeterminist. |
Abstract
AbstractAmong the living cells of the human body, and of the central and the peripheral nervous systems, it is neurons or nerve cells which are most immediately bound up with consciousness — with the antecedents of mental events, mental events themselves, and their consequents, the latter being other mental events and also actions. Neurons vary from very short indeed to a considerable length, and are constituted of structures and substructures which are open to study by light and electron microscopy and by many other converging means. Inspite of how scientific this bodily system is, and this is not the most often point of controversy, there remains to be various questions on consequences and still comes three categories of theories: determinist, near-determinist, and indeterminist.