Quantum Theory and Free Will: How Mental Intentions Translate into Bodily Actions

Pornthep Chawla

Séan Ó Nualláin

Review of: Stapp, Henry, Quantum Theory and Free Will: How Mental Intent Translates into Bodily Action (Springer, 2017) and (passim) Freeman, Walter and R Quian Quiroga, Imaging Brain Function With EEG: Advanced Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Electroencephalographic Signals (Springer, 2013)

Henry Pierce Stapp

Henry Pierce Stapp

Quantum mechanics as conceived by Niels Bohr and formulated in rigorous terms by John von Neumann is expressed as quantum neuroscience: a description of the relationship between certain conscious experiences of an observer that are described in terms of the concepts of classical physics and neural processes that are described in terms of the concepts of quantum physics. The theory is applied to recent neuroscience data to determine the rapidity of the observer's probing actions that is needed to account for the capacity of a person's mental intentions to influence that person's bodily actions in the intended way.

Nicolas Francisco Lori