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Quantum theory predicts experimental results brilliantly but simultaneously raises difficult conceptual issues. Paradoxes such as Schrödinger s cat, the EPR paradox, or the nonlocality demanded by Bell s inequalities have hampered philosophers in their attempts to include quantum theory when discussing the relation between mind and matter. Pylkkänen proposes that Bohm s alternative interpretation of quantum theory resolves these paradoxes and thus enables one to base new philosophical theories upon quantum physics. He uses Bohm s concepts of "implicate order", "active information" and "soma-significance" as tools to tackle several well-known problems in the philosophy of mind. These include mental causation, the hard problem of consciousness, time consciousness, and virtual reality. Pylkkänen s eclectic approach combines new physics-based insights with those of analytical philosophy, phenomenology, cognitive science and neuroscience and he proposes a view in which the mechanistic framework of classical physics and neuroscience is complemented by a more holistic underlying framework in which conscious experience finds its place more naturally.This accessible and easy-to-follow book offers a new approach to consciousness. The author s eclectic style combines new physics-based insights with those of analytical philosophy, phenomenology, cognitive science and neuroscience. He proposes a view in which the mechanistic framework of classical physics and neuroscience is complemented by a more holistic underlying framework in which conscious experience finds its place more naturally.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

• Full title: Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order
• Author: Paavo T. I. Pylkkänen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270
• EAN: 9783642062865
• ISBN: 3642062865
• ID: 01651557
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Weight: 450 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. February 2010

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