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Mindful Universe

E-BookPDF1 - PDF WatermarkE-Book
198 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Berlin Heidelbergerschienen am13.06.20072007
The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was essentially mindless: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with conscious experiences entering only passively. In the last century these classical concepts were found inadequate. In the new quantum mechanics theory, conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by physically described aspects alone.



Author of over three hundred research papers on the mathematical,
physical, and philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics, and
a Springer book 'Mind, matter, and quantum mechanics'. Worked
personally with W. Heisenberg, W. Pauli, and J.A. Wheeler on these
issues. Invited author of entries about quantum theories consciousness
in several currently about to appear encyclopedias. Invited plenary
speaker at numerous international conferences.

 

For book cover:

Henry Stapp has spent his entire career working in frontier areas of theoretical physics. After completing his thesis work under Nobel Laureates Emilio Segré and Owen Chamberlain, he joined Wolfgang Pauli to tackle foundational issues. After Pauli's early death, he turned to von Neumann's ideas about the mathematical foundations of quantum theory. The essay 'Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics', that developed out of this work eventually evolved into Stapp's classic book bearing the same title. His deep interest in the quantum measurement problem led him to pursue extensive work pertaining to the influence of our conscious thoughts on physical processes occurring in our brains. The understandings achieved in this work have been described in many technical articles and now, in more accessible prose, in the present book.mehr

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KlappentextThe classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was essentially mindless: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with conscious experiences entering only passively. In the last century these classical concepts were found inadequate. In the new quantum mechanics theory, conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by physically described aspects alone.



Author of over three hundred research papers on the mathematical,
physical, and philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics, and
a Springer book 'Mind, matter, and quantum mechanics'. Worked
personally with W. Heisenberg, W. Pauli, and J.A. Wheeler on these
issues. Invited author of entries about quantum theories consciousness
in several currently about to appear encyclopedias. Invited plenary
speaker at numerous international conferences.

 

For book cover:

Henry Stapp has spent his entire career working in frontier areas of theoretical physics. After completing his thesis work under Nobel Laureates Emilio Segré and Owen Chamberlain, he joined Wolfgang Pauli to tackle foundational issues. After Pauli's early death, he turned to von Neumann's ideas about the mathematical foundations of quantum theory. The essay 'Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics', that developed out of this work eventually evolved into Stapp's classic book bearing the same title. His deep interest in the quantum measurement problem led him to pursue extensive work pertaining to the influence of our conscious thoughts on physical processes occurring in our brains. The understandings achieved in this work have been described in many technical articles and now, in more accessible prose, in the present book.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9783540724148
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatPDF
Format Hinweis1 - PDF Watermark
FormatE107
Erscheinungsjahr2007
Erscheinungsdatum13.06.2007
Auflage2007
ReiheThe Frontiers Collection
Seiten198 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXII, 198 p. 9 illus.
Artikel-Nr.1428231
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Genre9200

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1;Preface;7
2;Contents;9
3;1 Science, Consciousness and Human Values;12
4;2 Human Knowledge as the Foundation of Science;22
5;3 Actions, Knowledge, and Information;27
5.1;3.1 The Anti-Newtonian Revolution;27
5.2;3.2 The World of Actions;29
5.3;3.3 Intentional Actions and Experienced Feedbacks;33
5.4;3.4 Cloudlike Forms;35
5.5;3.5 Simple Harmonic Oscillators;35
5.6;3.6 The Double-Slit Experiment;36
6;4 Nerve Terminals and the Need to Use Quantum Theory;38
6.1;4.1 Nerve Terminals;39
7;5 Templates for Action;42
8;6 The Physical Effectiveness of Conscious Will and the Quantum Zeno Effect;44
8.1;6.1 The Quantum Zeno Effect;44
8.2;6.2 William James s Theory of Volition;46
9;7 Support from Contemporary Psychology;49
10;8 Application to Neuropsychology;54
11;9 Roger Penrose s Theory and Quantum Decoherence;58
12;10 Non-Orthodox Versions of Quantum Theory and the Need for Process 1;61
12.1;10.1 The Many-Worlds (or Many-Minds) Approach and Decoherence;63
12.2;10.2 Bohm s Pilot-Wave Model;68
12.3;10.3 Spontaneous-Reduction Models;69
13;11 The Basis Problem in Many- Worlds Theories;70
13.1;11.1 Connection Between Classical Physics and Quantum Physics;70
13.2;11.2 Decoherence and Discreteness in Many- Minds/ Worlds Theories;75
14;12 Despised Dualism;83
14.1;12.1 Historical Background;83
14.2;12.2 A Flawed Argument;85
14.3;12.3 Squaring with Contemporary Neuroscience;85
15;13 Whiteheadian Quantum Ontology;89
15.1;13.1 Some Key Elements of Whitehead s Process Ontology;94
15.2;13.2 From von Neumann NRQT to Tomonaga- Schwinger RQFT;98
15.3;13.3 Similarities Between Whitehead s Ontology and Ontologically Construed RQFT;99
15.4;13.4 The Transition from Potentiality to Actuality in Quantum Mechanics;99
15.5;13.5 Compatibility with Einstein s (Special) Theory of Relativity;99
15.6;13.6 The Psychophysical Building Blocks of Reality;100
16;14 Interview;103
17;15 Consciousness and the Anthropic Questions;122
18;16 Impact of Quantum Mechanics on Human Values;141
19;17 Conclusions;146
20;A Gazzaniga s The Ethical Brain;147
21;B Von Neumann: Knowledge, Information, and Entropy;152
22;C Wigner s Friend and Consciousness in Quantum Theory;159
23;D Orthodox Interpretation and the Mind- Brain Connection;162
24;E Locality in Physics;166
25;F Einstein Locality and Spooky Action at a Distance;169
26;G Nonlocality in the Quantum World;176
27;References;182
28;Index;190mehr

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Author of over three hundred research papers on the mathematical,physical, and philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics, anda Springer book "Mind, matter, and quantum mechanics". Workedpersonally with W. Heisenberg, W. Pauli, and J.A. Wheeler on theseissues. Invited author of entries about quantum theories consciousnessin several currently about to appear encyclopedias. Invited plenaryspeaker at numerous international conferences.



For book cover:

Henry Stapp has spent his entire career working in frontier areas of theoretical physics. After completing his thesis work under Nobel Laureates Emilio Segré and Owen Chamberlain, he joined Wolfgang Pauli to tackle foundational issues. After Pauli's early death, he turned to von Neumann's ideas about the mathematical foundations of quantum theory. The essay 'Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics', that developed out of this work eventually evolved into Stapp's classic book bearing the same title. His deep interest in the quantum measurement problem led him to pursue extensive work pertaining to the influence of our conscious thoughts on physical processes occurring in our brains. The understandings achieved in this work have been described in many technical articles and now, in more accessible prose, in the present book.