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Consciousness and the Brain: A Scientific and Philo-Sophical InquiryIn G. Gordon, Grover Maxwell & I. Savodnik (eds.), Consciousness and the Brain: A Scientific and Philosophical Inquiry, Plenum. pp. 61-68. 1976.
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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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14List 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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16Doubts 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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12Temporality 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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16Prospects 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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18Dissipative 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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58Underconstraint 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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28What 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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54Self, 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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75Derrida and connectionism: Differance in neural netsPhilosophical Psychology 5 (2): 183-97. 1992.A possible relation between Derrida's deconstruction of metaphysics and connectionism is explored by considering diffeacuterance in neural nets terms. First diffeacuterance, as the crossing of Saussurian difference and Freudian deferral, is modeled and then the fuller 'sheaf of diffeacuterance is taken up. The metaphysically conceived brain has two versions: in the traditional computational version the brain processes information like a computer and in the connectionist version the brain compute…Read more
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Perceptual meaning and the holoworldIn Maksim Stamenov (ed.), Current advances in semantic theory, John Benjamins. pp. 73--75. 1992.
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34Can phenomenology contribute to brain science?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3): 430-431. 1982.
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99Brain 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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49Nonlinear Dynamics at the Cutting Edge of Modernity: A Postmodern ViewPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 12 (3): 229-234. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 12.3 (2005) 229-234 [Access article in PDF] Nonlinear Dynamics at the Cutting Edge of Modernity: A Postmodern View Gordon Globus Keywords nonlinear dynamics, modernity, postmodernity, quantum brain theory, free will, self-organization, autopoiesis, autorhoesis Although nonlinear dynamical conceptu-alizations have been applied to psychia-try for over 20 years,1 they have not had significant impact …Read more
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29Some 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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31Ontological 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 & Wade C. Savage (eds.), Science, Mind, and Psychology: Essays in Honor of Grover Maxwell, Upa. 1989.
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112CHAPTER 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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292Biological 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
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