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Consciousness and the Brain: A Scientific and Philosophical InquiryBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (1): 61-68. 1976.
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13List of the contributorsIn Gordon G. Globus, Karl H. Pribram & Giuseppe Vitiello (eds.), Brain and Being: At the Boundary Between Science, Philosophy, Language and Arts, John Benjamins. pp. 349. 2004.
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9Doubts about the World Out There: A Monadological ReduxJournal of Neurophilosophy 1 (2). 2022.The focus here is on the neglected, simply accepted, quotidian world, rather than the much-discussed consciousness. Contra common sense and science both, any actual independent external world out there is here denied. World is conceived instead as a _continual creation_ on the part of each quantum thermofield brain in parallel, which is “triply-tuned”: by sensory input, by memory and by self-tuning. Such a brain does not primarily process information—does not compute—but through its multiple tun…Read more
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6Temporality in Dreams: A Heideggerian Critique of Dennett's Dream TheoryJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 17 (2): 186-192. 1986.
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Being and Brain. At the Boundary between Science, Philosophy, Language and Arts (edited book)John Benjamins. 2004.
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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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105CHAPTER 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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29Deconstructing the chinese roomJournal of Mind and Behavior 12 (3): 377-91. 1991.The "Chinese Room" controversy between Searle and Churchland and Churchland over whether computers can think is subjected to Derridean "deconstruction." There is a hidden complicity underlying the debate which upholds traditional subject/object metaphysics, while deferring to future empirical science an account of the problematic semantic relation between brain syntax and the perceptible world. I show that an empirical solution along the lines hoped for is not scientifically conceivable at prese…Read more
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19The relationship of consciousness to brain, which Schopenhauer grandly referred to as the "world knot," remains an unsolved problem within both philosophy and science. The central focus in what follows is the relevance of science---from psychoanalysis to neurophysiology and quantum physics-to the mind-brain puzzle. Many would argue that we have advanced little since the age of the Greek philosophers, and that the extraordinary accumulation of neuroscientific knowledge in this century has helped …Read more
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50Underconstraint and overconstraint in psychiatryBehavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (6): 788-789. 2004.Hallucination lies at an intriguing border between psychiatry and philosophy. Although Behrendt & Young (B&Y) tie their proposal to Kantian transcendental idealism, other philosophical positions are equally consistent. Cognition is underconstrained by reality not only in hallucination but also in autism and dreaming. Sensory underconstraint is insufficient to encompass schizophrenia. There is also a breakdown in integrative capacity on the cognitive side. From a wider clinical perspective than s…Read more
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11Thinking together quantum brain dynamics and postmodernismIn P. Van Loocke (ed.), The Physical Nature of Consciousness, John Benjamins. pp. 29--175. 2001.
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66Quantum consciousness is cyberneticPSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 2. 1995.Classical mechanics cannot naturally accommodate consciousness, whereas quantum mechanics can, but the Heisenberg/Stapp approach, in which consciousness randomly collapses the neural wave function, leaves the conscious function unrestricted by known physical principles. The Umezawa/Yasue approach, in which consciousness offers superposed possibilities to the match with sensory input, is based in the first physical principles of quantum field theory. Stapp thinks of the brain as a measuring devic…Read more
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65Mind, matter, and monadMind and Matter 5 (2): 201-214. 2007.The indiscernability of the waking life and well-developed in- stances of the dream life suggests that the world perceived during waking is also 'virtual '.real in effect but not in fact. The naturalistic philosophical framework for virtual reality developed by Metzinger and by Revonsuo is discussed and critiqued. An alternative monadological realism is proposed and comparisons are made with Leibniz and Bohm.
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26Consciousness vs. Disclosure A Deconstruction of Consciousness StudiesJournal of Consciousness Studies 20 (1-2): 1-2. 2013.The field of consciousness studies is 'deconstructed' in terms of etymology, definition, and the deep involvement of perceptual consciousness in two persistently controversial areas: the hard problem of qualia and the measurement problem in quantum physics. An alternative to perceptual consciousness is developed within the framework of dissipative quantum thermofield brain dynamics: disclosure. Like consciousness, disclosure is constrained by sensory action, 'self-action' , and memory. The probl…Read more
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15Consciousness and quantum brain dynamicsIn Jack A. Tuszynski (ed.), The Emerging Physics of Consciousness, Springer Verlag. pp. 371--385. 2006.
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34The machine basis for the Dasein: On the prospects for an existential functionalism (review)Man and World 19 (1): 55-72. 1986.Heidegger has provided a profound account of human existence in terms of the to-be-da. Even though Heidegger disregarded its brain machine basis (and even though brain scientists disregard Heidegger), the issue of the Dasein's machine basis is raised by the empirically extremely well confirmed “supervenience” of the Dasein on the brain. Since the Turing machine will not do as basis for the Dasein, as Dreyfus has shown, contemporary functionalism cannot resolve the issue. Instead an “existential …Read more
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11Prospects for the scientific observer of perceptual consciousnessIn J. M. Davidson & Richard J. Davidson (eds.), The Psychobiology of Consciousness, Plenum. pp. 465--481. 1980.
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15Dissipative thermofield logic of the Tao symbolJournal of Consciousness Studies 17 (5-6): 5-6. 2010.The well-known symbol of the Tao is freshly interpreted in terms of dissipative quantum thermofield brain dynamics. The primary duality of the Tao is between two dynamical modes of operation. The secondary duality within each mode of the Tao symbolizes creation and annihilation operations. The relation between the dual modes is 'intrinsic' in that these modes do not exist independently of their relationship. What is ontologically primary is the dual modes belonging-together in the 'between-two'.…Read more
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93Brain and Being: At the Boundary Between Science, Philosophy, Language and Arts (edited book)John Benjamins. 2004.This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to think together in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have suffered conceptual estrangement but now are ripe for rapprochement, if academic parochialism is put aside. A prevalent theme of the book is a moving away from individual elements and individual actors acting u…Read more
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22What is the sound of one hand clapping, the touch of a still wind, the sight of a “black hole”?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (3): 355-356. 1978.
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51Self, cognition, qualia, and world in quantum brain dynamicsJournal of Consciousness Studies 5 (1): 34-52. 1998.If the brain has a level of quantum functioning that permits superposition of possibilities and nonlocal control of states, then new answers to the problem of the consciousness/brain relation become available. My discussion is based on Yasue and co-workers’ account of a quantum field theory of brain functioning, called ‘quantum brain dynamics’. In the framework developed each person can properly state: ‘I am nonlocal control and my meanings are control variables.’ Cognition is identified with a …Read more
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Nonlinear brain systems with nonlocal degrees of freedomJournal of Mind and Behavior 18 (2-3): 195-204. 1997.Quantum degrees of freedom greatly enrich nonlinear systems, which can support nonlocal control and superposition of states. Basing my discussion on Yasue’s quantum brain dynamics, I suggest that the Cartesian subject is a cybernetic process rather than a substance: I am nonlocal control and my meanings are cybernetic variables. Meanings as nonlocal attunements are not mechanically determined, thus is it concluded we have freedom to mean
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