Is quantum theory relevant to the study of consciousness

David L. Wilson

Paavo Pylkkänen

The paper sketches how the notion of active information has arisen from the quantum theory and then briefly discusses the relevance of this notion to current debates in consciousness studies (“the hard problem” of consciousness) and cognitive science (“the dynamical approach” to cognition).

M. Dugić, Dejan I. Raković, Milan M. Ćirković

We show that the modern quantum mechanics, and particularly the theory of decoherence, allows for 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 rather wide scales bearing some cosmological relevance.

Paavo Pylkkänen

M. Dugić, Milan M. Ćirković, Dejan I. Raković

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.

Weirui Xiong, Lu Yu