2014/04/02 by J. Acacio de Barros, de Barros, J. Acacio
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #q-bio.NC #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1404.0714
To appear in the Proceedings of the Foundations of Mind Conference, Berkeley, 2014. Revised version includes a solution to the circularity problem
arxiv created 2014/04/16 · arxiv updated 2014/04/17
In this paper I discuss Stapp's (2014) interesting proposal of using the Quantum Zeno Effect to account for the mind/matter interaction. In particular, I discuss some of the motivations for it, and then argue that, in his current version, his model is circular (a solution to this, proposed by Kathryn Laskey, is presented), insofar as the mind/matter problem is concerned. I also present an alternative approach to some of the appealing aspects of using quantum mechanics to think about consciousness.