On a Possible Physical Metatheory of Consciousness
Quantum Physics
2012-02-21 v1
Abstract
We show that the modern quantum mechanics, and particularly the theory of decoherence, allows 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 very wide scales bearing some cosmological relevance.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0212128,
title = {On a Possible Physical Metatheory of Consciousness},
author = {Miroljub Dugic and Milan M. Cirkovic and Dejan Rakovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0212128},
year = {2012}
}