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Heideggerian dynamics and the monadological role of the 'between': A crossing with quantum brain dynamics.

Gordon G. Globus

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology December 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.07.007 (opens in new tab)

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Key points Argues that Heidegger's concept of das Ereignis can be read as a dynamics compatible with quantum brain dynamics, with das Zwischen as the fundamental disclosure that is Existenz. Contends that Heidegger's critique of technology and science does not apply to quantum brain dynamics, and that the ontological difference between the two positions is monadological, contrary to Heidegger, with implications for measurement in quantum physics and consciousness in philosophy.

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Heideggerian theory is retrieved as a dynamics, the "Godly event" of das Ereignis ("enowning"), which is unexpectedly compatible with a version of quantum brain dynamics. In both the "between" (das Zwischen) has the fundamental role of the dis-closure that is Existenz. Heidegger's harsh critique of technology and science does not apply to revolutionary quantum brain dynamics. The crossing between Heidegger and quantum brain dynamics, as well as one fundamental ontological difference, illuminates both. To our surprise this difference turns out, contra Heidegger, to be monadological. The monadological conception is applied to long-standing problematics of measurement in quantum physics and consciousness in philosophy. Heideggerian Existenz is affirmed as fundamentally non-computational but is reformulated as a dynamical process of monadological dis-closure that radically deconstructs transcendent world.

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