Mindless Sensationalism: A Quantum Framework for Consciousness
| dc.creator | Page, Don N. | |
| dc.date | 2001-08-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:02:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:02:33Z | |
| dc.description | The ideas of Sensible Quantum Mechanics are expressed in lay terms for philosophers of consciousness and others. A framework is proposed and explained for the `psycho-physical-parallelism' between conscious experiences and the mathematical structures of quantum physics (e.g., a set of quantum operators obeying some algebra, and a quantum state giving the expectation value of each operator). In particular, it is proposed that each set of possible conscious experiences has a measure given by the expectation value of a corresponding operator (a positive-operator-valued measure). Then one has a generalization of the Weak Anthropic Principle named the Conditional Aesthemic Principle: given that we are conscious beings, our conscious experiences are likely to be typical experiences in the set of all conscious experiences with its measure. | |
| dc.description | 36 pages, no figures, LaTeX, invited contribution to be published in Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays, edited by Quentin Smith and Alexandar Jokic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). (This is mainly a philosophical account of the ideas of Sensible Quantum Mechanics in quant-ph/9506010 and elsewhere.) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0108039 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0108039 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/89642 | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | Mindless Sensationalism: A Quantum Framework for Consciousness | |
| dc.type | text |