Evgenii,
All this is well known. Copenhagen theory, or "unique-universe" theory
are non computationalist dualist theories.
But as Shimony has shown, the idea that consciousness collapse the
wave leads to many difficulties, like non local hidden variables in
physics, or solipsism in philosophy of mind. Or even just the problem
to say what exactly is the collapse, on which all believers in
collapse differ.
Computationalism and Everett (QM without collapse) have no problems in
that respect, and line up well with the everything-like use of Occam.
Bruno
On 12 May 2012, at 13:03, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
A few quotes below to dualism from Max Velmans.
Evgenii
http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2012/05/quantum-dualist-interactionism.html
In Chapter 2, Conscious Souls, Brains and Quantum Mechanics there is
a nice section Quantum Dualist Interactionism (p. 17 – 21) where
Max Velmans describes works that present interpretation of dualism
in the framework of quantum mechanics.
Stapp, H. (2007a) ‘Quantum mechanical theories of consciousness’
in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, pp. 300-312.
Stapp, H. (2007b) ‘Quantum approaches to consciousness’ in The
Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, pp. 881-908.
Stapp, H. (2007c) Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the
Participating Observer.
Interestingly enough Stapp refers to the work of von Neumann:
Von Neumann, J. (1955/1932) Mathematical Foundations of Quantum
Mechanics/Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantummechanik.
p. 19. “In various interpretations of quantum mechanics there is in
any case ambiguity, and associated controversy, about where in the
observation process a choice about what to observe and a subsequent
observation is made. For example, according to the ‘Gopenhagen
Convention’, the original formation of quantum theory developed by
Niels Bohr, there is a clear separation between the process taking
place in the observer (Process 1) and the process taking place in
the system that is being observed (Process 2).”
p. 21. “To differentiate the conscious part of Process 1 (the
‘conscious ego’) from the physically embodied part, Stapp (2007c)
refers to it as ‘Process 0′. Stapp believes that such quantum
dualist interactionism neatly sidesteps the classical problems of
mind-body (or consciousness-brain) interaction (see Stapp, 2007a, p.
305). According to the von Neumann/Stapp theory, consciousness
(Process 0) chooses what question to ask; through the meditation of
Process 1 that interacts with Process 2 (the developing
possibilities specified by the quantum mechanics of the physical
system under interrogation, including the brain) – and Nature
supplies an answer, which in turn reflected in conscious experience
(making the entire process a form of dualism-interactionism).”
p. 21. “A central claim of the von Neumann/Stapp theory, for
example, is that it is the observer’s conscious free will (von
Neumann’s ‘abstract ego’ or Stapp’s ‘Process 0′) that
chooses how to probe nature.”
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