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Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics
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PHILOSOPHY OF MIND SERIES
series editor:DavidJ.Chalmers,AustralianNationalUniversity
TheConsciousBrain ConsciousnessandtheProspects
JessePrinz OfPhysicalism
DerkPereboom
SimulatingMinds
ThePhilosophy,Psychology,and ConsciousnessandFundamentalReality
NeuroscienceofMindreading PhilipGoff
AlvinI.Goldman
ThePhenomenalBasisofIntentionality
SupersizingtheMind AngelaMendelovici
Embodiment,Action,and
CognitiveExtension SeeingandSaying
AndyClark TheLanguageofPerceptionandthe
RepresentationalViewofExperience
Perception,Hallucination,andIllusion BeritBrogaard
WilliamFish
PerceptualLearning
PhenomenalConceptsand TheFlexibilityoftheSenses
PhenomenalKnowledge KevinConnolly
NewEssaysonConsciousnessand
Physicalism CombiningMinds
TorinAlterandSvenWalter HowtoThinkAbout
CompositeSubjectivity
PhenomenalIntentionality LukeRoelofs
GeorgeGraham,JohnTienson,and
TerryHorgan TheEpistemicRoleofConsciousness
DeclanSmithies
TheCharacterofConsciousness
DavidJ.Chalmers TheEpistemologyofNon-Visual
Perception
TheSenses BeritBrogaardand
ClassicandContemporary DimitriaElectraGatzia
PhilosophicalPerspectives
FionaMacpherson WhatareMentalRepresentations?
EditedbyJouliaSmortchkova,
AttentionisCognitiveUnison KrzysztofDołęga,andTobiasSchlicht
AnEssayinPhilosophicalPsychology
ChristopherMole ConsciousnessandQuantumMechanics
EditedbyShanGao
TheContentsofVisualExperience
SusannaSiegel
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Consciousness and
Quantum Mechanics
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SHAN GAO
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
ListofContributors ix
InformationonEditor xi
Introduction 1
PART I. CONSCIOUSNESS AND WAVE FUNCTION
COLLAPSE
1. ConsciousnessandtheCollapseoftheWaveFunction 11
DavidJ.ChalmersandKelvinJ.McQueen
2. TheSubjective-ObjectiveCollapseModel:
VirtuesandChallenges 64
EliasOkonandMiguelÁngelSebastián
3. QuantumMentality:PanpsychismandPanintentionalism 83
J.AcaciodeBarrosandCarlosMontemayor
4. PerceptionConstraintsonMass-DependentSpontaneous
Localization 99
AdrianKent
PART II. CONSCIOUSNESS IN QUANTUM THEORIES
5. QuantumMechanicsandtheConsciousnessConstraint 117
PhilipGoff
6. Against“Experience” 140
PeterJ.Lewis
7. WhyPhysicsShouldCareabouttheMind,andHowto
ThinkaboutitWithoutWorryingabouttheMind-Body
Problem 156
JenannIsmael
8. WhyMindMattersinQuantumMechanics 177
ShanGao
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9. TheNatureofBeliefinNo-CollapseEverettInterpretations 184
PaulSkokowski
10. The Completeness of Quantum Mechanics and the
Determinateness and Consistency of Intersubjective
Experience:Wigner’sFriendandDelayedChoice 198
MichaelSilbersteinandW.M.Stuckey
11. TheRolesAscribedtoConsciousnessinQuantumPhysics:
ARevelatorofDualist(orQuasi-Dualist)Prejudice 260
MichelBitbol
12. Proposal to Use Humans to Switch Settings in a Bell
Experiment 282
LucienHardy
PART III. QUANTUM APPROACHES TO
CONSCIOUSNESS
13. NewPhysicsfortheOrch-ORConsciousnessProposal 317
RogerPenrose
14. OrchORandtheQuantumBiologyofConsciousness 363
StuartHameroff
15. Can Quantum Mechanics Solve the Hard Problem of
Consciousness? 415
BasilJ.HileyandPaavoPylkkänen
16. StrangeTrails:SciencetoMetaphysics 460
WilliamSeager
17. OnthePlaceofQualiainaRelationalUniverse 482
LeeSmolin
Index 515
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Acknowledgments
IwouldliketothankPeterOhlinandDavidChalmersfortheirkindsupport
asIworkedonthisproject,andtherefereeswhogavehelpfulsuggestionson
howtheworkcouldbestserveitstargetedaudience.Duringtheeditingof
thisbook,IhavebeenassistedbyresearchfundingfromtheNationalSocial
ScienceFoundationofChina.Finally,Iamdeeplyindebtedtomyparents,
QingfengGaoandLihuaZhao,mywife,Huixia,andmydaughter,Ruiqi,for
theirunflaggingloveandsupport.
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List of Contributors
J.AcaciodeBarros(SanFranciscoStateUniversity)
MichelBitbol(FrenchNationalCentreforScientificResearch)
DavidJ.Chalmers(NewYorkUniversity)
ShanGao(ShanxiUniversity)
PhilipGoff(DurhamUniversity)
StuartHameroff(UniversityofArizona)
LucienHardy(PerimeterInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics)
BasilJ.Hiley(UniversityofLondon)
JenannIsmael(ColumbiaUniversity)
AdrianKent(UniversityofCambridgeandPerimeterInstituteforTheoretical
Physics)
PeterJ.Lewis(DartmouthCollege)
KelvinJ.McQueen(ChapmanUniversity)
CarlosMontemayor(SanFranciscoStateUniversity)
EliasOkon(NationalAutonomousUniversityofMexico)
RogerPenrose(UniversityofOxford)
PaavoPylkkänen(UniversityofHelsinkiandUniversityofSkövde)
WilliamSeager(UniversityofToronto)
MiguelÁngelSebastián(NationalAutonomousUniversityofMexico)
MichaelSilberstein(ElizabethtownCollege)
LeeSmolin(PerimeterInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics)
PaulSkokowski(UniversityofOxford)
W.MarkStuckey(ElizabethtownCollege)
