EAN: 9783540238911

MIND MATTER AND THE IMPLICATE ORDER - PAAVO T I...

Quantum theory predicts experimental results brilliantly but simultaneously raises difficult
conceptual issues. Paradoxes such as Schrödinger'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. Pylkkänen 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. Pylkkänen'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.

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