Conscious Mind in the Physical World Euan J. Squires

Conscious Mind in the Physical World by Euan J. Squires

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Considers the concept of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. The book discusses whether animals and machines can be conscious and examines the philosophical background to the idea of consciousness and free-will.

Conscious Mind in the Physical World by Euan J. Squires

This book considers the concept of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. It discusses whether animals and machines can be conscious and examines the philosophical background to the idea of consciousness and free-will, including a consideration of realism, materialism and idealism. The book also discusses quantum theory and examines the quantum revolution and the evolution from classical physics to the standard model.It then goes on to consider what quantum theory means and how the topic of quantum physics is related to the conscious mind. In addition to this the text discusses the concept of time and memory and the idea of truth.

Part 1 Physics and conscious mind: physics as the theory of everything; physics and the violation of experience; physics and reductionism; from physics to conscious mind. Part 2 Consciousness: what is consciousness?; what is conscious?; can a machine be conscious?; what does consciousness do?; the uniqueness of conscious mind; the unconscious mind; states of consciousness. Part 3 From classicla physics to the standard model: the classical era; interference; the quantum revolution; the standard model; the standard model of cosmology; unanswered questions. Part 4 Philosophical background: words, wrds, mere words; idealism; realism; materialism; the mind-brain identity hypothesis; dualism; psychoneural pairs; panpsychism; process philosophy. Part 5 Experiments relevant to conscious mind: science needs experiments; consciousness in animals; blindsight; the brain; split brain experiments; the effects on the brain of mental events; the effects of consciousness on the external world. Part 6 Free will: a property of conscious mind; freedom as the possibility of alternative action; free-will as an illusion; free-will and determinism; the origin of free-will; purpose and design; summary of our conclusions about free-will. Part 7 Time: time and the laws of physics; the experience of time; time asymmetry and thermodynamics; memory; movement through time; time and space. Part 8 Truth: facts and tautologies; paradoxes; axiometric systems; Goedel's theorem; does a machine tell the truth?; Part 9 Quantum theory: particle-wave duality; the wavefuction of quantum theory;the probability interpretation of the wavefunction; quantum theory and determinism; quantum theory and external reality; quantum theory and locality; time and quantum mechanics. Part 10 What does quantum theory mean?: the interpretation problem; the orthodox interpretation; what can make a quantum theory measurment?; consciousness and wavefunction reduction; hidden-variable models; the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory; knowledge and quantum theory. Part 11 Conscious mind and quantum physics: why does consciousness enter physics?; the unique world of conscious mind; free-will and quantum physics; psychokinesis and quantum physics; universal consciousness and clairvoyance; are brain events microscopic. Part 12 Conclusions: is there an external world?; is there anything else?; why does it seem to matter so much?; are we responsible ofr our actions?; what is conscious mind?.

Conscious Mind in the Physical World Euan J. Squires

Conscious Mind in the Physical World by Euan J. Squires

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Conscious Mind in the Physical World by Euan J. Squires

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