2016/09/02 by J. Acácio de Barros, de Barros, J. Acacio, Gary Oas +1 · 1 citation
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · Psychology · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #FOS: Physical sciences #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1609.00614
openalex publication_date 2016/09/02 · openalex created_date 2022/10/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper we examine some proposals to disprove the hypothesis that the\ninteraction between mind and matter causes the collapse of the wave function,\nshowing that such proposals are fundamentally flawed. We then describe a\ngeneral experimental setup retaining the key features of the ones examined, and\nshow that even a more general case is inadequate to disprove the mind-matter\ncollapse hypothesis. Finally, we use our setup provided to argue that, under\nsome reasonable assumptions about consciousness, such hypothesis is\nunfalsifiable.\n