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50Biological foundations of the psychoneural identityPhilosophy of Science 39 (September): 291-300. 1972.Biological foundations of the psychoneural identity hypothesis are explicated and their implications discussed. “Consciousness per se” and phenomenal contents of consciousness per se are seen to be identical with events in the brain in accordance with Leibniz's Law, but only informationally equivalent to neural events as observed. Phenomenal content potentially is recoverable by empirical means from observed neural events, but the converse is not possible. Consciousness per se is identical with …Read more
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25Some Philosophical Implications of Dream ExistenceAnthropology of Consciousness 5 (3): 24-27. 1994.Freud considered dreams to be compositions of past waking experiences but this theory is untenable: (1) the process of compositing disparate memories into the seamless dream life is miraculous, and (2) authentically novel dream worlds are experienced. Dennett makes dreams into purely cognitive affairs, a matter of scripts, denying their perceptual appearing. I suggest that dreams are de novo constructions of actual perceptual worlds, not put together from memory scraps. Implications for waking p…Read more
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30Ontological implications of quantum brain dynamicsIn Kunio Yasue, Mari Jibu & Tarcisio Della Senta (eds.), No Matter, Never Mind: Proceedings of Toward a Science of Consciousness : Fundamental Approaches (Tokyo '99), John Benjamins. pp. 33--137. 2002.
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Dual mode quantum brain dynamics and its application to the Riemann HypothesisIn Gordon G. Globus, Karl H. Pribram & Giuseppe Vitiello (eds.), Brain and Being: At the Boundary Between Science, Philosophy, Language and Arts, John Benjamins. 2004.
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The strict identity theory of Schlick, Russell, Maxwell, and FeiglIn Mary Lou Maxwell & C. Wade Savage (eds.), Science, Mind, and Psychology: Essays in Honor of Grover Maxwell, University Press of America. 1989.
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107CHAPTER Heidegger and the Quantum Brain In any case the orientation to "I" and " consciousness" and re-presentation ...
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Halting the descent into panpsychism: A quantum thermofield theoretical perspective (Chapter 3)In David Skrbina (ed.), Mind That Abides: Panpsychism in the New Millennium, John Benjamins. pp. 67--82. 2009.
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1Cognition, self and observation in quantum brain dynamicsIn P. Pyllkkänen & P. Pyllkkö (eds.), New Directions in Cognitive Science, Finnish Society For Artificial Intelligence. 1995.
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217Biological foundations of the psychoneural identity hypothesisPhilosophy of Science 39 (3): 291-301. 1972.Biological foundations of the psychoneural identity hypothesis are explicated and their implications discussed. "Consciousness per se" and phenomenal contents of consciousness per se are seen to be identical with events in the (unobserved) brain in accordance with Leibniz's Law, but only informationally equivalent to neural events as observed. Phenomenal content potentially is recoverable by empirical means from observed neural events, but the converse is not possible. Consciousness per se is id…Read more
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Irvine, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Physical Science |
Continental Philosophy |