Contemporary Echoes of the World Soul: Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness

In James Wilberding (ed.), World Soul: A history. New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press. pp. 320-342 (2021)
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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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