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Title: Quantum Interactive Dualism: An Alternative to Materialism

Abstract

Materialism rest implicitly upon the general conception of nature promoted by Galileo and Newton during the seventeenth century. It features the causal closure of the physical: The course of physically described events for all time is fixed by laws that refer exclusively to the physically describeable features of nature, and initial conditions on these feature. No reference to subjective thoughts or feeling of human beings enter. That simple conception of nature was found during the first quarter of the twentieth century to be apparently incompatible with the empirical facts. The founders of quantum theory created a new fundamental physical theory, quantum theory, which introduced crucially into the causal structure certain conscious choices made by human agents about how they will act. These conscious human choices are ''free'' in the sense that they are not fixed by the known laws. But they can influence the course of physically described events. Thus the principle of the causal closure of the physical fails. Applications in psycho-neuro-dynamics are described.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of High EnergyPhysics
OSTI Identifier:
889633
Report Number(s):
LBNL-59905
R&D Project: PTH OPS; TRN: US200704%%19
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Consciousness Studies
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 11; Related Information: Journal Publication Date: November2005
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; MATERIALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN FACTORS; mind consciousness materialism quantum theory

Citation Formats

Stapp, Henry P. Quantum Interactive Dualism: An Alternative to Materialism. United States: N. p., 2005. Web.
Stapp, Henry P. Quantum Interactive Dualism: An Alternative to Materialism. United States.
Stapp, Henry P. 2005. "Quantum Interactive Dualism: An Alternative to Materialism". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/889633.
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abstractNote = {Materialism rest implicitly upon the general conception of nature promoted by Galileo and Newton during the seventeenth century. It features the causal closure of the physical: The course of physically described events for all time is fixed by laws that refer exclusively to the physically describeable features of nature, and initial conditions on these feature. No reference to subjective thoughts or feeling of human beings enter. That simple conception of nature was found during the first quarter of the twentieth century to be apparently incompatible with the empirical facts. The founders of quantum theory created a new fundamental physical theory, quantum theory, which introduced crucially into the causal structure certain conscious choices made by human agents about how they will act. These conscious human choices are ''free'' in the sense that they are not fixed by the known laws. But they can influence the course of physically described events. Thus the principle of the causal closure of the physical fails. Applications in psycho-neuro-dynamics are described.},
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year = {Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005},
month = {Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005}
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