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View SchemaOn a Physical Metatheory of Consciousness
| Authors | Miroljub Dugic, Dejan Rakovic, Milan M. Cirkovic |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0010042 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0010042 |
Abstract
We show that the modern quantum mechanics, and particularly the theory of decoherence, allows for formulating a sort of a physical metatheory of consciousness. Particularly, the analysis of the necessary conditions for the occurrence of decoherence, along with the hypothesis that consciousness bears (more-or-less) well definable physical origin, leads to a wider physical picture naturally involving consciousness. This can be considered as a sort of a psycho-physical parallelism, but on rather wide scales bearing some cosmological relevance.
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