Brewer, Mark A. (2025) Quantum Foundations of Consciousness: A Reformulated Framework. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 21 (1). pp. 326-359.
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This paper proposes a theory-neutral formal framework designed to accommodate data that implicates consciousness in anomalous observer-linked phenomena, including structured accounts sometimes interpreted as involving alleged non-human intelligence.
Motivated by growing empirical reports in which observer phenomenology appears coupled to system behavior, the paper introduces an explanatory workspace that expands the standard quantum state space to include a phenomenal dimension.
Specifically, it augments the conventional Hilbert space Hphysical with an orthogonal tensor factor Hphenomenal, allowing conscious states to be structurally represented without reducing them to conventional observables.
The goal is not to offer a reductive theory of consciousness, but to supply a lawful representational space into which empirically grounded anomalies—such as psi effects, attentional modulation, or UAP-linked phenomenology—might coherently fit.
The framework is grounded in an epistemic tradition articulated by Newton, Eddington, Russell, and Chomsky, all of whom emphasize the distinction between the structural apparatus of science and its ontological reach.
It does not seek to redefine physics, but to expand its structural vocabulary—offering a formal arena in which observer-linked anomalies may become empirically visible and testable.
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| Keywords: | Consciousness, Quantum Mechanics, Russellian Monism, Psi Phenomena, Nonlocality, Panpsychism, Non–Human Intelligence, Relegation Problem | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Mr Mark Brewer | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2025 14:12 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2025 14:12 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 25942 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/art... | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 13 April 2025 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 326-359 | ||||||
| Volume: | 21 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25942 |
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