Allori, Valia
(2019)
Contemporary Echoes of the World Soul: Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness.
[Preprint]
Abstract
Quantum mechanics is a groundbreaking theory: not only it is extraordinarily empirically adequate but
also it is claimed to having shattered the classical paradigm of understanding the observer-observed
distinction as well as the part-whole relation. This, together with other quantum features, has been taken
to suggest that quantum theory can help us understand the mind-body relation in a unique way, in
particular to solve the hard problem of consciousness along the lines of panpsychism. In this paper, after
having briefly presented panpsychism, I discuss the main features of quantum theories and the way in
which the main quantum theories of consciousness use them to account for conscious experience.
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