The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds

Meir Hemmo

Douglas Snyder

A non-technical argument is presented that there is a link between the mind and the physical world in modern physics. Special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and other areas of physics are explored. Each area is found to support the existence of a link between the mind and the physical world. Research from psychology is also presented indicating that there is a role for the discipline of psychology in delineating the nature of this link.

Niall Shanks

Lon Becker, Jeffrey Alan Barrett

1. A Brief Introduction 2. The Standard Formulation of Quantum Mechanics 3. The Theory of the Universal Wave Function 4. The Bare Theory and Determinate Experience 5. Selecting a Branch 6. Many Worlds 7. Many Minds 8. Many Histories 9. The Determinate-Experience Problem Appendices References Index

Henry Pierce Stapp

Jeffrey Alan Barrett, David Hodgson

Introduction Part I. Preliminaries: General approach and assumptions Mental events The consensus Part II. Against Mechanism: More and different information Plausible reasoning Consciousness selected by evolution Folk psychology Transcending the code Part III. Quantum Mechanics: Historical outline Some mechanics and mathematics The quantum mechanical state The development of the quantum state Combined systems The measurement problem Quantum theory and reality Part IV. Mind and the world: Outline of a theory of mind The self Time Sketches for a world-view References Author index Subject index.