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Author Pylkkänen, P. (Paavo)

Title Mind, matter, and the implicate order / Paavo T.I. Pylkkänen
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 270 pages) : illustrations
Series Frontiers collection, 1612-3018
Frontiers collection. 1612-3018
Contents The Architecture of Matter -- The Architecture of Consciousness -- Active Information -- Time Consciousness -- Movement, Causation, and Consciousness
Summary "Quantum theory predicts experimental results brilliantly but simultaneously raises difficult conceptual issues. Paradoxes such as Schrodinger's cat, the EPR paradox, or the nonlocality demanded by Bell's inequalities have hampered philosophers in their attempts to include quantum-theory when discussing the relation between mind and matter. Pylkkanen proposes that Bohm's alternative interpretation of quantum theory resolves these paradoxes and thus enables one to base new philosophical theories upon quantum physics. He uses Bohm's concepts of "implicate order", active information" and "soma-significance" as tools to tackle several well-known problems in the philosophy of mind. These include mental causation, the hard problem of consciousness, time consciousness, and virtual reality. Pylkkanen's eclectic approach combines new physics-based insights with those of analytical philosophy, phenomenology, cognitive science and neuroscience and he proposes a view in which the mechanistic framework of classical physics and neuroscience is complemented by a more holistic underlying framework in which conscious experience finds its place more naturally."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index
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Subject Quantum theory.
Physics -- Philosophy.
Consciousness.
First philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Metaphysics
Quantum Theory
Consciousness
metaphysics.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory.
Physics -- Philosophy.
Quantum theory.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Metaphysics
First philosophy
Consciousness
Physics -- Philosophy
Quantum theory
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3540238913
9783540238911
3540480587
9783540480587
6610656649
9786610656646