The Mind Matters - Consciousness and Choice in a Quantum World | |||
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BOOK ABSTRACT:
Cover Blurb
→ Michael Lockwood, Times Literary Supplement
→ Paul Davies, Australian and New Zealand Physicist
→ J. R. Lucas, Merton College, Oxford
→ New Scientist
→ Independent on Sunday
Preface
ContentsPart I. Preliminaries
→ 1.1 Philosophy and Science – 11
→ 1.2 Truth and Language – 19
→ 1.3 Truth and Necessity – 24
→ 1.4 Mechanism – 32
→ 2.1 The Central Case – 38
→ 2.2 Other Cases – 44
→ 2.3 Mind and Consciousness – 47
→ 2.4 Perception – 48
→ 2.5 Differences between Mental Events and Physical Events – 53
→ 2.6 Possible Relationships between Mental Events and Physical Events – 58
→ 4.1 In Philosophy – 63
→ 4.2 In Computer Science – 75
→ 4.3 In Brain Sciences – 85
→ 4.4 The Impact of Quantum Physics – 90
Part II. Against Mechanism – 97
→ 4.1 Consciousness-Dependent Information – 99
→ 4.2 Information and Codes – 105
→ 4.3 The Integration of Information – 110
→ 4.4 Dretske and Digital Information – 111
→ 5.1 Formal and Plausible Reasoning – 115
→ 5.2 Induction – 116
→ 5.3 Characteristics of Plausible Reasoning – 126
→ 5.4 Legal Reasoning – 137
→ 5.5 The Mechanization of Plausible Reasoning – 141
→ 5.6 Formal Reasoning Based on Plausible Reasoning – 148
→ 5.7 Godel's Theorem – 152
→ 6.1 General Statement of the Argument – 157
→ 6.2 The No-Advantage and By-Product Approaches – 160
→ 6.3 Advantages of Consciousness – 162
→ 6.4 The Global Property Approach – 168
→ 6.5 Further Questions – 171
→ 7.1 The Way it Seems – 174
→ 7.2 Entrenchment in Language and Attitudes – 180
→ 7.3 Folk Psychology as a Consequence of Consciousness – 182
→ 7.4 Consequences of Folk Psychology – 184
→ 8.1 Intentionality – 188
→ 8.2 Mind and Reality – 192
→ 8.3 Where to from Here? – 196
Part III. Quantum Mechanics4 – 197
→ 9.1 Classical Physics – 200
→ 9.2 Relativity – 209
→ 9.3 The Origins of Quantum Mechanics5 – 213
→ 9.4 The Formulation of Quantum Mechanics6 – 218
→ 9.5 Later Developments – 225
→ 10.1 Some Aspects of Pre-Quantum Mechanics7 – 230
→ 10.2 Some Mathematics of Waves – 238
→ 10.3 Probability – 252
→ 11.1 Representation of the State of One Particle – 259
→ 11.2 The Wave Function of a Single Particle – 264
→ 11.3 State Vectors – 271
→ 11.4 Operators, Eigenstates, Eigenvalues – 278
→ 11.5 Spin and Polarization – 291
→ 12.1 The Schrodinger Equation – 297
→ 12.2 The Heisenberg Picture – 301
→ 12.3 Ehrenfest's Equations – 305
→ 12.4 An Example – 307
→ 13.1 State Functions for Multiple Particles – 311
→ 13.2 Different Aspects of a Single Particle – 317
→ 13.3 The Time Development of Combined Systems – 318
→ 14.1 The Copenhagen Interpretation – 321
→ 14.2 Von Neumann and Schrodinger's Cat – 324
→ 14.3 Measurement by Consciousness – 329
→ 14.4 Hidden Variables – 332
→ 14.5 The Ensemble or Statistical Interpretation – 333
→ 14.6 The Many Worlds or Relative State Interpretation – 335
→ 14.7 Quantum Logic – 342
→ 14.8 Measurement by Types of Interaction – 345
→ 15.1 The Nature and Behaviour of Quantum Particles – 354
→ 15.2 EPR Correlations and the Bell Inequality – 361
→ 15.3 Quantum Descriptions of Macro Objects – 371
→ 15.4 Conclusions – 374
Part IV. Mind and the World – 379
→ 16.1 Brain, Mind, and Quantum Reality – 381
→ 16.2 Conscious Choice – 388 –
→ 16.3 Unity of Mind – 396
→ 16.4 Some Questions – 400
→ 17.1 Persons and Selves – 403
→ 17.2 From Descartes to the Consensus – 408
→ 17.3 Parfit9's Reductionist View – 413
→ 17.4 A Deep Further Fact – 418
→ 17.5 Postscript on Replication10 – 429
→ 18.1 Time and Tense – 431
→ 18.2 Against the Tenseless View – 435
→ 18.3 A Changing Reality – 440
→ 18.4 Timeless Existence – 442
→ 19.1 A Dualism of Causation11 – 444
→ 19.2 Morality – 448
→ 19.3 The Soul – 453
→ 19.4 God – 457
→ 19.5 The Purpose of Life – 461
References – 465
Name Index – 475
Subject Index – 478
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