Quantum theory, active information and the mind-matter problem

In Pylkkänen Paavo (ed.), Contextuality from Quantum Physics to Psychology. World Scientific. pp. 325-334 (2016)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Bohm and Hiley suggest that a certain new type of active information plays a key objective role in quantum processes. This paper discusses the implications of this suggestion to our understanding of the relation between the mental and the physical aspects of reality.

Categories

Add categories

Keywords

Reprint years

2015

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Implications of Bohmian quantum ontology for psychopathology.Paavo Pylkkänen - 2010 - Neuroquantology 8 (1):37-48.
Can mind affect matter via active information?Basil J. Hiley & Paavo Pylkkanen - 2005 - Mind and Matter 3 (2):8-27.
Quantum State Teleportation Understood Through the Bohm Interpretation.O. Maroney & B. J. Hiley - 1999 - Foundations of Physics 29 (9):1403-1415.
Effective Physical Processes and Active Information in Quantum Computing.Ignazio Licata - 2007 - Quantum Biosystems 1 (1):51-65.
Can Bohmian Quantum Information Help us to Understand Consciousness?Paavo Pylkkänen - 2016 - In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Springer Publishing Company. pp. 76-87.
A new theory of the relationship of mind and matter.David Bohm - 1990 - Philosophical Psychology 3 (2 & 3):271 – 286.
Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Information.Sheldon Goldstein - 2010 - Foundations of Physics 40 (4):335-355.
A new theory of the relationship of mind and matter.David J. Bohm - 1986 - Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 80 (2 & 3):113-35.
Consciousness in the light of quantum theory.Paavo Pylkkänen - 2016 - In Satsangi Prem Saran, Hameroff Stuart, Sani Vishal & Dua Pami (eds.), Consciousness: Integrating Eastern and Western Perspectives. New Age Books. pp. 23-34.
Can quantum analogies help us to understand the process of thought? [1st ed].Paavo Pylkkänen - 2004 - In Gordon Globus, K. Pribram & G. Vitiello (eds.), Being and Brain. At the Boundary between Science, Philosophy, Language and Arts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 165-195.
Mind, matter, and physicists.Yehudah Freundlich - 1972 - Foundations of Physics 2 (2-3):129-148.
The Ontological Status Of Quantum Information.Robert ArnĂutu - 2010 - Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Philosophia 1.
Explaining the Unobserved—Why Quantum Mechanics Ain’t Only About Information.Amit Hagar & Meir Hemmo - 2006 - Foundations of Physics 36 (9):1295-1234.
Hiding Information in Theories Beyond Quantum Mechanics, and It’s Application to the Black Hole Information Problem.Markus P. Müller, Jonathan Oppenheim & Oscar C. O. Dahlsten - 2014 - Foundations of Physics 44 (8):829-842.
Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.Christopher Gordon Timpson - 2013 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.

Analytics

Added to PP
2017-08-15

Downloads
264 (#76,692)

6 months
58 (#80,169)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Paavo Pylkkänen
University of Helsinki

Citations of this work

Add more citations

References found in this work

Wholeness and the implicate order.David Bohm - 1980 - New York: Routledge.
Wholeness and the Implicate Order.David Bohm - 1980 - New York: Routledge.
Wholeness and the Implicate Order.David Bohm - 1980 - New York: Routledge.
Wholeness and the Implicate Order.David Bohm - 1981 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32 (3):303-305.

View all 23 references / Add more references