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Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist

科普物理 2009-10-31 v2

摘要

The most dramatic developments in theoretical physics in the next millennium are likely to come when we make progress on so far unresolved foundational questions. In this essay I consider two of the deepest problems confronting us, the measurement problem in quantum theory and the problem of relating consciousness to the rest of physics. I survey some recent promising ideas on possible solutions to the measurement problem and explain what a proper physical understanding of consciousness would involve and why it would need new physics.

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@article{arxiv.physics/9906040,
  title  = {Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist},
  author = {Adrian Kent},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9906040},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Article for "Science Into The Next Millennium", a millennial issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London