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A quantum cure for panphobia
University of Skövde, School of Bioscience. University of Skövde, Systems Biology Research Environment. University of Helsinki, Finland. (Kognitiv neurovetenskap och filosofi, Consciousness and Cognitive Neuroscience)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7838-8293
2020 (English)In: The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism / [ed] William Seager, New York: Routledge, 2020, 1, p. 285-302Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Panpsychism is often thought to be an obviously mistaken doctrine, because it is considered to be completely inconceivable how the elementary particles of physics could possibly have proto-mental properties. This paper points out that quantum theory implies that elementary particles are far more subtle and strange than most contemporary physicalist philosophers assume. The paper discusses Louis de Broglie’s and David Bohm’s famous “pilot wave” theory which under Bohm’s later interpretation suggests that, say, an electron is a particle guided by a field carrying active information, the latter of which can be seen as a primitive mind-like quality.

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New York: Routledge, 2020, 1. p. 285-302
Keywords [en]
Panpsychism, panprotopsychism, ontological interpretation of quantum theory, active information, combination problem, hard problem of consciousness, integrated information theory, IIT, David Bohm, David Chalmers
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Philosophy
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Consciousness and Cognitive Neuroscience
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URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-19501Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85120294971ISBN: 978-1-138-81713-5 (print)ISBN: 978-1-315-71770-8 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-19501DiVA, id: diva2:1531281
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First published 2020 by Routledge

© 2020 Taylor & Francis

Cognitive neuroscience and philosophy

Available from: 2021-02-25 Created: 2021-02-25 Last updated: 2022-09-06Bibliographically approved

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