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Mindful Universe Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer /

The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with our conscio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stapp, Henry P. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:2nd ed. 2011.
Colección:The Frontiers Collection,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Preface to the Second edition
  • Science Consciousness and  Human Values
  • Human Knowledge as the Foundation Science
  • Actions, Knowledge, and Information
  • Nerve Terminals and the Need to Use Quantum Theory
  • Templates for Action
  • The Physical Effectiveness of Conscious Will and the Quantum Zeno Effect
  • Support from Contemporary Psychology
  • Application to Neuropsychology
  • Roger Penrose's Theory and Quantum Decoherence
  • Non-Orthodox Versions of Quantum Theory
  • The Basis Problem in Many-Worlds Theories
  • Despised Dualism
  • Whiteheadian Quantum Ontology
  • Interview
  • Consciousness and the Anthropic Questions
  • Impact of Quantum Mechanics on Human Values
  • Placebo: A Clinically Significant Quantum Effect
  •  Science-Based Discussion of Free Will
  • A.Gazzaniga's The Ethical Brain
  • B.Von Neumann: Knowledge, Information, and Entropy
  • C. Wigner's Friend and Consdciousness in Quantum Theory
  • D. Orthodox Interpretation and the Mind-Brain Connection
  • E. Locality in Physics
  • F. Einstein Locality and Spooky Action at a Distance
  • G. Nonlocality in the Quantum World
  • References
  • Index.